Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are becoming the one-stop-shop for everything you would normally do on a variety of different websites. This includes activities like reading the news and the latest gossip, watching videos, and communicating with your favorite companies. Facebook, for example, also wants to further take advantage of bot use, so that you can have a bot order an Uber, choose a restaurant, or book a flight for you. If you start to use Facebook for all of your online tasks, then you’re providing them with a lot of information about you. You trust them with not only your personal information, but also your photos, where you eat, where you travel, who your friends are and what they like, which brands you like best, and your social and political views. That’s a lot of information they can use for marketing purposes. If you don’t get your information elsewhere, that means that Facebook controls what you read and what you watch, even if it’s not necessarily information you want to see.

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Or, take Instagram for example (which is owned by Facebook). Their new “channels” feature shows you videos based on your interests. Whenever you like a photo or video, or follow certain people or brands, the app develops an idea of who you are. This then helps Instagram to send you targeted ads from brands that are looking for customers like you. While you might welcome Instagram doing all of the work for you in terms of providing you with new brands to discover, these types of ads often become overwhelming and intrusive.

Websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram can say that, by agreeing to use their service, you’re essentially allowing them to access and use your information. It’s considered “harmless” behavior if they’re using that information to improve your experience with their service. But there’s still the question about how much social networking sites should be allowed to access from us, and whether or not their privacy policies are intentionally misleading to the average user to create a false sense of “privacy.”

Many investors are speculating over which company might eventually purchase Twitter. Despite user stagnation, the site is still a valuable social tool. There is speculation that Google or Facebook might want Twitter, but this also could be a useful purchase for another company who wants to break into the social media market. Both Google and Facebook have tried to purchase Twitter in the past, but failed. While this shows an interest in Twitter as a social platform, it could also show that they might not have interest in trying again.

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There are a lot of reasons that Twitter has continued to succeed thus far, despite user and stock decline. More than any other social networking site, Twitter emphasizes live updates, and more importantly, conversation. Think of the hash tag, and how it has helped spread awareness of, and support for, social movements. In addition, like Facebook, Twitter has successfully used bots in their app. One of the most famous bots involves the ability to order a pizza by tweeting an emoji. If they follow Facebook’s plan, and incorporate more bots into their app, this could potentially encourage more users to interact with the app and use it complete tasks. Or, it might not. If Facebook has more than 1.5 billion active users, the usage of bots is more likely to be a successful move for them than Twitter.

Twitter’s cofounder, Jack Dorsey, considers the app to be a form of augmented reality in how it focuses on live, supplemented information for a TV program or event. Could this be taken a step further, and utilized as a way to contribute live textual or voice updates in future augmented and virtual reality technology and devices? Dorsey already considers Twitter to be a type of global chat room, and even a way to consume and discuss important news. Regardless, Twitter and Facebook share some overlapping interests, which could indicate that Facebook might once again make a move to buy Twitter in the future. As for what happens then, we’ll have to wait to find out.

However, the progression of technology has allowed everyone to gain equal access to information, from technology to pop culture to politics.

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It seems as if every news feed is saturated with biased political information posted from all ideologies. With the proliferation of news media amongst millennials and older generations alike, this political information has become a primary news source for people as they decide who they want to cast their vote for in November.

Is this a bad thing? Well, you can decide for yourself.

Nearly everyone has access to holistic political information, which means that people are generally more educated. Even if they don’t read the news articles, they see the titles and the click baits, and they can decipher the general message that the article is going to send. This results in them going to the voting booth better informed, and they are not voting off of stipulation.

Plus, these social media platforms are facilitating discussion. Have you ever scrolled through your newsfeed without seeing two random kids from high school beefing about Trump vs. Hillary? Me neither. The conversation catalyzed by social media allows people to better understand each other’s values. This can also help inform the populace and educate them about their voting decision.

There are also a few negative byproducts associated with social media selecting our president. First of all, as stated earlier, these articles are incredibly biased. Several of these articles include skewed information that is utilized to promote a particular partisan agenda. This can mislead people to believe false information, and it can muddle their honest decision for whom they pick for their votes.

So, is it okay if social media selects a president? Whichever way you feel about it, it’s an inevitability. News technology is constantly innovating, reaching out to new populaces. Will this lead to a more informed or more ignorant electorate? Find out in November.

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