The Long List of Social Media Issues

Your social media brain is under a lot of pressure.

Social media this and social media that. Social media has been around for quite a while now, but not all is well in this online wonderland.

I keep this list of vari­ous social media issues for myself to stay on top of the biggest anti-social trends.

Here we go:

List of Social Media Issues

Examples of Social Media PR Issues

Social media isn’t all sun­shine and rain­bows. With massive change come new types of issues we must deal with.

Here are a few examples of social media issues:

• Bot accounts
• Filter bubbles (social media algorithms)
• The silent switch
• Echo cham­bers
• Ghost fol­low­ers
• Dark social
• Cyberbullying
• Online trolls
• Online hate
• Polarisation
• Electoral tam­per­ing
• Fake news and altern­at­ive facts
• Conspiracy the­or­ies
• National pro­pa­ganda and disinformation
• Government sur­veil­lance
• Cyber ter­ror­ism
• Facebook zero
• Spam
• The cul­ture war
• The use­ful idi­ot syndrome
• Online fraud
• Online wan­nabeism
• The copy­right mafia
• De-plat­form­ing
• Cancel cul­ture
• Techlash
• The splin­ter­net
• Paywalls (journ­al­ism)
• Clickbait journ­al­ism
• Social media fakers
• Fear of screen time
• Mental health issues
• Programmatic brain­wash­ing
• Information over­load
• Filter fail­ure
• Deepfakes

Read also: Social Media: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

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Problems, too, adapt.

I don’t know how much you or I can influ­ence any of the above. But I know that you con­trol where you decide to dir­ect your atten­tion.

Social media this and social media that, yes. But remember:

Social media is every­one’s respons­ib­il­ity.
Your brain when using social media — your responsibility.