Where will this fast pacing trend lead us? Will it lead us to another World War or will it bring the world together? Will it help us end some of the problems in the world or will the world watch through the media as our world collapses? Many of these questions can be predicted from the evidence around us, but the future is unknown to us. As Jared Diamond said in his essay in, "The end of the world as we know them", "Unlike any previous society in history, our global society today is the first with the opportunity to learn from the mistakes of societies remote from us in space and in time". He means it's not too late for us to learn from all the mistakes that the world has made. We can change our habits and make social media more of a tool, then a weapon. We can use this new world as a safe world from all the harms of Earth. We need to start now for the future of humankind.
I see a bit of a correlation from this and your "Social Media is a useful tool to fight crime." Honestly, I see earth going the way of how much effort "well intending" people put in to it. Otherwise, it'll end up like Jared Diamond's title.
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