Social media sites like blogs are an avenue of expression of thoughts and ideas of an individual whereas social sites like Facebook are used for social interaction and instagram for posing and vanity and self gratification of ego obssessed people who want to do oneupmanship and be selfie kings and queens.Twitter is used to promote products ,services,do soul marketing or expression of individuals in the marketplace of ideas where we can bounce ideas off each other.So those who abuse it for spamming,trolling,stalking or propaganda of extremist ideology should be banned.
Users should be educated on media literacy from young so that they can detect ulterior motives and be tech savvy to unfollow dangerous people who may be doing cult brainwashing or sexual grooming or scamming for money.The social sites that earn a lot from advertising should have a standard policy and a training manual for users to learn to detect fake news or false advertising.Empower the user rather than rely on an external body to censor sites.Self censorship works better than "father knows best what's good for you" patronizing control.
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