Thoughts on Social Media and Transmission

I think social media is good for a lot of reasons that does not mean that it is all fine and dandy. Social media helps us see the world in a different way, it is like we can always be aware of whats happening in it. This is a bid advantage in many ways, for example if there where to be a natural disaster people would become aware of it sooner and rush to help.
Sadly social media has a dark side seeded in its roots and that is that big institutions run them, this makes them have other interests, such as monetising your information. Basically what they do is sell your information to whoever pays the most and that is not a very good thing.
But then again we are the ones who give them this information in exchange to be connected.
It appears, at least today that the cost of being connected is ones privacy.

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