Eliminating or minimizing face to face interaction distances people from one another, allowing anyone to create a fake personality or profile. An article titled, “Why Social Media Isn’t Social,” author Thomas White discusses how social media creates a mask, “these sites and apps allow us to choose an impressive filter for our lives, making boring exceptional and mediocre exciting,” (White, page 1). The mask social media creates gives people the opportunity to lie and become someone they are not.. In many ways this can be dangerous because their profile picture and information may be exactly the same as anyone else; however that makes it hard to tell the real profile from the fake profile. The dangers of a fake profile can range anywhere from