Social Media

Many of us who were born in the Millennial generation use social media, either a Facebook, Twitter, or whatever else there is to interact with other friends and exchange information through virtual communities on the internet.  It is also how a lot of young people receive news and current events right next to watching The Daily Show on Comedy Central and reading The Onion.  I don't think social media has a particularly positive impact on modern society, especially with how it changes social interaction, tends to skew facts, and turns young people into ego-maniacs constantly posting and tweeting just to get more "likes," as if they have any actual value.
Although social media allows us to communicate with friends who may be far away from our own location, and chat with a larger audience, it makes us become more isolated from others and diminishes a sense of community in our social lives. In my opinion, social media has the potential to turn us, if it already has not, turned us into a bunch of isolated weirdos who only speek over the internet.
Social media allows us to say whatever we want, and this ultimately leads to factual information becoming misinterpreted and incorrect.  It's kind of like the game telephone.  As the information is reposted over and over again, some of what was originally said will be changed unintentionally due to miscommunication and people putting their own opinion into the original information.
Social media can turn those who are avid users into ego-maniacs, constantly reposting and retweeting information in hopes of getting more people to "like" their status.  In all reality "likes" are not worth anything and it just shows that however many people clicked a button next to something you wrote.  I guess it's a way for people to try to become celebrities without having to actually work.  But it's not like you actually have to work to become a celebrity.