Tech experts reflect on social media boom

Nearly 900 Internet experts and technologists expressed provocative thoughts on the impact that rapidly expanding social media systems are having on individual lives and overall society in a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and the Imagining the Internet Center at Elon University. While most respondents noted that the Internet has both positive and negative effects, 85 percent of the people participating in the survey said it has improved their own social relations and will continue to do so through 2020.