Editing Social software (section)

==Criticism==

===Negative externalities===
Social media has been criticized for having negative externalities, such as privacy harms, misinformation and hate speech, and harm to minors.<ref>https://laweconcenter.org/resources/a-law-economics-approach-to-social-media-regulation/</ref> These externalities arise from the nature of the platform, including the ease of sharing content, due to the platforms' need to maximize engagement.<ref>https://laweconcenter.org/resources/a-law-economics-approach-to-social-media-regulation/</ref>

===Workplace concerns===

Social media has been adapted in the workplace, to foster collaboration, but there has also been criticism that privacy concerns, time wasting, and multi-tasking challenges make manager's jobs more difficult, and employee concentration may be reduced.<ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0275074016675722</ref>

===Information overload and arbitrary filtering of communication===
{{See also|Information overload}}
As information supply increases, the average time spent evaluating individual content has to decrease. Eventually, much communication is summarily ignored - based on very arbitrary and rapid [[heuristics]] that will filter out the information for example by category. Bad information crowds out the good - much the way SPAM often crowds out potentially useful unsolicited communications.

===Cyberbullying===
{{main|Cyberbullying}}
Cyber bullying is different than conventional bullying. Cyber bullying refers to the threat or abuse of a victim by the use of the internet and electronic devices. Victims of cyber bullying can be targeted over social media, email, or text messages. These attacks are typically aggressive, and repetitive in nature.  Internet bullies can make multiple email, social media, etc. accounts to attack a victim.  Free email accounts that are available to end users can lead a bully to use various identities for communication with the victim. Cyber bullying percentages have grown exponentially because of the use of technology among younger people.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kowalski|first1=Robin|last2=Limber|first2=Susan|last3=Agatston|first3=Patricia|title=Cyberbullying : Bullying in the Digital Age|date=2012|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|location=Malden, MA|isbn=9781444334814|pages=56–57|edition=2nd}}</ref>

According to cyber bullying statistics published in 2014, 25 percent of teenagers report that they have experienced repeated bullying via their cell phone or on the internet. 52 percent of young people report being cyber bullied. Embarrassing or damaging photographs taken without the knowledge or consent of the subject has been reported by 11 percent of adolescents and teens. Of the young people who reported cyber bullying incidents against them, 33 percent of them reported that their bullies issued online threats. Often, both bullies and cyber bullies turn to hate speech to victimize their target. One-tenth of all middle school and high school students have been on the receiving end of "hate terms" hurled against them. 55 percent of all teens who use social media have witnessed outright bullying via that medium. 95 percent of teens who witnessed bullying on social media report that others, like them, have ignored the behavior.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nobullying.com/cyber-bullying-statistics-2014/|title=Cyber Bullying Statistics - NoBullying - Bullying & CyberBullying Resources|date=24 February 2014|website=nobullying.com|access-date=21 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180322020453/http://nobullying.com/cyber-bullying-statistics-2014/|archive-date=2018-03-22|url-status=dead}}</ref>