Originally Posted by
hans brinker
So a group text between 3 people is social media?
Correct.
Social media is a website or application that enables users to create and share content or to participate in social networking. After Facebook the second most popular social media app is WhatsApp. This forum is ‘social media’ as are blogging platforms like Wordpress, and image sharing sites like Instagram.
As has been pointed out a private conversation can easily become public, be it WhatsApp or email, through intentional or unintentional action. Therefore don’t post pissed, and think before you hit ‘send’, once it’s left your phone/PC/tablet you have no control over that data at all.
With any such discussions regarding health and similar personal information, you need to treat it as you would your bank account details and passwords. It’s very easy to be blasé about the likes of Facebook and the information you’re potentially sending to the world using it, you can read it in this thread. Social media is incredibly useful, and potentially very damaging used carelessly. As an example, any of you whom have used the private message system here to discuss events or possibly individuals, you have no guarantee that information won’t be reposted for example by the recipient, here or elsewhere.
Think before you post!