How do social media affects morals?

Social media is the new medium for multi-way mass communication where people interact, communicate, learn and gain information. This medium results in a digital or virtual network of people who are geographically and culturally displaced. 

Social media has become an unavoidable part of the life world of millennials. 

In this age of information, where a virtually diverse network of individuals or societies is formed, social media has become an essential part of our everyday life. Without even realizing we rely on social media for information because it is faster and accessible to everyone. This practice has resulted in social media to impact and influence our conduct. The following sentences will list out how social media has affected and impacted our morals:

• Social media has become the go-to source for all our information and knowledge. This has resulted in developing rationality or way of thinking, which is influenced by social media. This rationality then informs our morals or values, influencing our actions.
• The impact of social media on morals and values can be interpreted positively or negatively. The positive manifestation of morals includes expanding our horizons by getting exposed to various events, cultures, societies, and ethnicities and the individual and society's personal growth. Social media can help to open our eyes to injustice and discrimination within our society and community by drawing a contrast with others. The negative manifestation of morals includes the corruption in our way of thinking, attitudes, and behaviors depending on the content we are exposed to. Social media represents a sea of information without any filter and access issues; depending on the nature of the information we are accessing, the impact on behavior and attitude will be decided.
• The dominating presence of social media has resulted in making the traditionally learned morals via socialization less significant.