does social media inspire bad behavior?

[Joan]

Yes, sometimes.
It's a whole new area of peer pressure and the bad side of it is pretty simple (there are good sides too)

In general a person does not behave his/her best in the absence of other people, the internet gives the illusion the there are no people around, so stuff happen. For some, social media does just the opposite, they use it as a tool for countless good behaviors and thats why it's wrong to say that it's bad or good. For example: Yahoo-Answers is a social site, if you spend time on it when you should be working, then even if you help someone with a great answer you did a bad behavior