Abstract:
Social Media Can Play a Positive Role in Health Care While Also Posing Some Risks. Today so much information is available to so many individuals at any time or on any day thanks to the Internet. The world is Friending, Tweeting, Blogging, Pinning, or Tumbling at a very fast rate. With so much activity we should all be in great shape; unfortunately, though, it’s only our fingers that are getting the exercise. It has been reported that Facebook has over 1 billion active users1 and Twitter has over 140 million users.2 Approximately eight of 10 health care companies use social media sites in some way.3 In health care, using social media certainly has pros and cons.
