Is Facebook really‘ripping apart’society?

FACEBOOK ripping society apart? What utter codswallop! Thanks to social media, anyone can keep in touch day and night with friends and relatives all over the world at the touch of a button. You can find out what is happening in your community, be it social events or news, rediscover old friends from school or college days and make new ones who share your interests. Provided you make it work for you, rather than let it control your life, Facebook is a great invention. PETER BECKLEY, Crawley, W. Sussex. SOCIAL media sites started as a new way to get information and stay in touch with old ones. But it has become a platform to bully, with trolls delighting in their ability to spoil the lives of others with vitriolic messages. And it is a new way for con men without any conscience to target the vulnerable. RONALD BALL, Farnborough, Hants. PEOPLE have a remarkable capacity for taking a good thing and misusing it and Facebook is no exception. If you are a parent, have you not taught your children there is a real world and that over-use of the internet is not a good idea? Why are youngsters left to spend hours unsupervised in front of a screen?

KEVAN JAMES, Rochester, Kent. FORMER Facebook boss Chamath Palihapitiya is right to say social media is ‘ripping society apart’ (Mail). In what other facet of society can people insult others behind a pseudonym and participate in immoral and illegal activities? Should relationships really be created via a computer screen? It leaves people of all ages open to exploitation and abuse. DIANE SILVA, Lytham St Annes, Lancs.