Stop blaming social media for people that have problems

I am getting really sick of the stories about "the dark side of social media"... Its not social media that makes people nuts it simply makes it more visible.

I was reading an article on www.forebes.com today titled What Does The Face Book Double Homicide Say About The Dark Side Of Social Media and what I took away from it was that most of the incidents quoted happen every day in the real world not just in social media, and in a lot of cases there where external relationships that where the triggers not the involvement in social media.

People who are open to suggestion that leads any sort of violent crime or self harm are just as susceptible to these suggestions while going to school, work or a bar so why blame social media.

The fact is that these types of issues have been on the increase and that maybe it is more to do with the society than the social media.

Another paragraph in the story states

The internet has also give fuel to conspiracy theories, allowing crazy or just very angry people to find other crazy or angry people. It’s a great vehicle for hate speech. Like minds can form communities where none existed before.

This is just not true,  there have been groups around that have been sprouting hate messages long before the internet ever existed.

I freely admit that it makes it easier for people to voice their opinions, look at this post, but so does standing on a box in the middle of the street.

People have to be predisposed to either the hate or suggestibility and that I think is where the real issue lies.