Social Media: Productive or Destructive

Social media has been a topic of controversy in recent years, some think it is good, some bad. No matter your view on the subject one must admit it has changed vitally since its inception. It has changed since the days. It first started now you can have your address', phone number, and other sources of personal information. Another way it has changed is you can now tell the world what you are doing at the exact time you are doing it, as where before it was not an instant. I do believe in a sense that social media is intrusive, but this depends on the person if you do not want people to know what your doing do not put it on social media. If you have a job in which posting, or tweeting  may hurt you than it is in your best interest to not put it on these sites. There is also a responsibility in using social media, due to the reasoning that what one does on these websites reflects on them as a person. People  may or may not agree with what you as an individual post, but it is the responsibility of the person on what they put on their wall, or things like that.So every-time someone sends a tweet, or posts about something there is responsibility to that individual as to how they want to be perceived. While there is a lot of backlash concerning social media there is good that comes from this. Football player Devon Still formerly of the Cincinnati Bengals has a daughter that had pediatric cancer, he kept this as a secret for a good amount of time from the public. He finally broke the silence in form of posting videos to Facebook, and Instagram. This informed people about his daughter's medical problems, it was from there that everyone including celebrities, sports athletes,talk show hosts realized what he and his family had been going through.People from all walks of life did whatever they could in there power to help his daughter. People ended up raising money, and millions of people knew Leah's story simply with the hash-tag #LeahStrong. Social media played a role in the raising millions of dollars for pediatric cancer. While it must have very tough for Devon Still to go through this with his daughter, he had the support of millions of people just by a simple hash-tag. If it had not been for social media this secret would have never been known by the public. It just goes to show how fast news can spread over social media.I believe that social media will continue to grow, and head in the right direction. It is amazing how much people can help with a situation if given the right information. It seems as though everyone has a form of social media.Heck, even my grandparents have one. While we may not talk to them everyday it keeps them up to date with our lives.