Is Social Media a Necessary Evil?
Many commentators have been ringing the death-knell of email because they see the onward surge of new social media sites eventually taking over as the preferred communications channel of choice. But for all those who champion this new wave of social interaction and see it as the best thing to happen to the Internet since YouTube, there are many who see it as a scourge that should be regulated. Indeed, the Chinese have been regulating Internet usage for years (see the Great Firewall of China), but now there are calls from even Western countries to curb its use and many see it as damaging and not the freedom-giving liberation providing brave new world we all envisaged. Recently there have been calls from religious leaders for parents to make sure their children aren’t being dragged into all sorts of on-line shenanigans and commenting that it is actually stunting kid’s social awareness. That would be the ultimate insult, really; that social networks have the effect of limiting social inte
