Americans have always loved their Bill of Rights. The famed document refuses to supply direction for how to approach privacy. Although social media is useful for bringing people close together, the proximity of millions of people has negatively impacted American culture. Americans have decided that to be free means to keep an eye on their government and vice versa. You’re sitting with your best friends when the name of that one person comes up in conversation. Everyone silently agrees that this will be a safe space and someone begins with, “You know, I love them to death but sometimes…” and suddenly everybody has something to say. The fact that you all can talk openly and freely with each other is comforting. More than that, it is liberating and you feel it is your right. But what would happen if that person ever found out what you all had said about them? Most likely there would be conflict, …show more content…
People who have been brought together are the family members on opposite sides of the world, the alumni who never thought they’d see each other again, and the only two people who communicate knitting terms esoterically across state lines. The group that has been moved further apart is more significant than the prior. Echo chambers have been created in a way that no longer allow for multiple opinions to be heard in political discourse. Social media has been divisive. With the 2016 American Presidential Election, there are countless examples of hate groups and, “unfriending” because of differing political beliefs. Organizations like WikiLeaks show that no matter how much clout a person has, they aren’t safe from the watchful eyes of everyone, as in the release of Hillary Clinton’s emails (Hillary Clinton Email Archive). The internet has opened many doors, and America is not yet prepared to handle what is behind