This document discusses criticisms of several major social media platforms, including privacy concerns, psychological effects of addiction, inappropriate content on Facebook, censorship issues on YouTube, invasion of privacy in Instagram's terms of use, illicit drug sales on Instagram, privacy and security problems along with screenshot abilities enabling sexting on Snapchat.

1. CRITICISMS:
Why I choose not to use social media

2. FACEBOOK:social networking service
● Privacy concerns
● Psychological effects, including
addiction
● Inappropriate content
controversies

3. YOUTUBE:video sharing website
● Censored Content
● Does not censor controversial content
● Has been banned at least temporarily
in many countries including
Thailand,Turkey,Pakistan
and Egypt

4. Instagram:photo & video sharing service
● Terms of use include invasion of
privacy
● BBC investigation revealed illicit
drug transactions involving users posting
photos of drugs for sale

5. SNAPCHAT:photo messaging app
● Privacy and security concerns
● Allows screenshots of photos
that should self-delete in 10
seconds or less
● Sexting:children as young as 10 send and
receive sexual pictures of themselves
and others