SOCIAL MEDIA BETWEEN REGULATION AND FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS

n recent times the digital space has evolved from the common use of the Internet as a messaging and search tool into a medium of continuous social interaction. Social media interaction gave birth to the use of unconventional media and unprecedented rise in the Application such as Facebook, twitter, WhatsApp, yahoo messenger, LinkedIn to mention a few, have all emphasized the credence that social media has come to stay.

Social media apps have aided globalization hence; promote continuous interaction between human from various background, ethnicity, race and tribe. Conventional media like radio, television, newspapers, cable networks of sourcing information or staying informed with the news have all gotten competition this time a very ferocious one from a viable competitor, a lot of people for example in a recent survey carried out in the United States a lot of Americans now prefer to source there news or information from tabloids, social media, websites than from the conventional New York times, CNN etc. they now prefer to get there information from the social media than to listen or read from the so called staged conventional media.