Destructive influences in the information and communication space of social media

Abstract

The article identifies specific features of destructive influences in social media, indicates the main information threats and prerequisites for their occurrence. This article raises the debatable question of whether social networks are a full-fledged replacement for real communication for people or whether they themselves pose a threat to information exchange and communication between people. In general, publications discussing the appearance of the future of the Information Society present the full range of moods of expectations: from extreme optimism to complete pessimism. Moreover, as a rule, only certain aspects of the complex process of transition to the information society are highlighted, which does not allow us to understand the overall picture and develop recommendations for solving existing problems. At the same time, the concepts of «prospects», «trends», «challenges», «risks», and «threats» are often mixed up, which makes it even more difficult to understand what type of problems we are dealing with. The riskogenicity of the Information Society, which manifests itself, first of all, in the complete dependence of a person on information technologies and the loss of himself, already attracts the attention of many researchers. The development of effective methods for neutralizing the negative effects of modern information technologies on humans is one of the important tasks of science of the XXI century. As a result of the research, the author comes to the conclusion that it is necessary to study this problem in more depth and develop protective methods.