Social media risks

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Social media is an ever increasing form of communication for many people in both their personal and professional lives.  It presents people with many benefits in allowing them to communicate a variety of messages to many people with great speed and efficiency.  However, those benefits need to be balanced with the many risks social media presents. Social media is a very broad term which includes any websites and applications which allow users to interact with ...

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