Will social media bring harm or do good to us?

SOURCE: Huei (LOWYAT.NET)


Social media such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are free services that can give you information about the latest trends, almost as soon as it happens; however, the convenience of such technologies does not come without a concern or two. Recently, Mashable reported that the Southeastern Conference (SEC) will be coming out with a new media policy to ban all social media usage at SEC games; which of course, caused this topic to be raging among the most popular trends.

Such policy, which reads “Ticketed fans can’t “produce or disseminate (or aid in producing or disseminating) any material or information about the Event, including, but not limited to, any account, description, picture, video, audio, reproduction or other information concerning the Event.”, is aimed at protecting CBS, the authorized media coverage of the event, because according to The St Petersburg Times, CBS has a $3 billion deal with the conference over the next 15 years.

Ever since the news first surfaced, it created an overwhelming number negative response from just about everybody; the SEC has hence decided to reconsider the ban. On the other side, while it may be harmless to just tweet scores and such, social media can still be a threat to the more sensitive issues - not too long ago, the US Marines were banned from accessing any social media networks for the fear that too much information might be exposed to the adversaries.