It’s hard to believe that, only a decade ago, social media was little more than a budding trend. Sure, there were websites such as Friendster and Myspace. Fast-forwarding back to 2015, new social media platforms have emerged. At least 99.8% of the teenagers in the world have mobile phones and are tweeting, posting, liking, commenting on respective social media platforms. Adults, teenagers, children are addicted to their smart phones. Today in this paper I will be writing about if social media has changed the world for the worse or good. On a personal note I do agree that social media has changed the world to worse. Before I cover the “Bad,” let’s start by appreciating the things social media has done to add to our lives. Here are some of the better things I’ve observed. Given all the consolidation of media companies in the world it is pretty easy to question whether the news we get from the major media is the full story or not. After all, it’s not a rare occasion to hear more about the latest Kardashian scandal or celebrity death than a political uprising in Turkey or elsewhere in the world. One of the things that attracted me personally to twitter was the immediate access to other sources of information. For example, When Air Canada Flight 624, an Airbus A320, touches down short of the runway and hits power lines while landing at Halifax Stanfield International Airport, after arriving from Toronto. There was a nearby citizen live tweeting his observations of the whole situation which I knew about it immediately. Social networking is good for the economy. Social media sites have created a new industry and thousands of jobs in addition to providing new income and sales.  University of Oxford’s study projects that the communication and collaboration from social media could add $950 billion to $1.4 trillion to the economy through added productivity and improved customer service. Facebook posted $1.26 billion for third