The quick answer is YES obviously, but what are the consequences for this?

Social media’s global user base has exploded to nearly 5 billion people, with platforms like Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and WhatsApp each boasting billions of active users. The average person now spends over 2 hours per day on social networks (probably more if we consider only last two years statistics with so much information bombarding us).

This massive adoption of social media platforms has vastly expanded the attack surface for cybercriminals, seeking to exploit their popularity using real contacts instead of bots.

In fact, social media has become the number one target for phishing and other cyber attacks using as well social engineering for SCAMS. This shift represents a critical evolution in the digital threat landscape, where the very platforms that connect billions are now prime hunting grounds for sophisticated cybercriminal strategies.

There is no one solution for this problem, rather WE need to go back to the basis and self regulate the content WE consume WE post and WE share (as it seems the battle is lost, as 30 years after e-mail was created we are still not found a one global solution to avoid SPAM effectively across all domain names) (DMARC doesn’t work if is not enforced maybe we need to use BIMI MTA STS to name a few).

It is important not to fall into the trap to follow ONE Online platform ONE source. Diversify your dialog regurlarly, READ news not only online, also official press, and more collaboration with our comunities face to face discussions. Specially leading by example for new generations, and go back to the principle to agree to disagree and accept other views to avoid the increased divisions. If we expand the conciousness and grow the information acquired on regular basis the damage on what WE read WE share it can be minimized, and we can expand the limitations of what algorithms dictate of what we do or read online and more recently Ai LLM’s that share with us.

The challenge is ongoing, but with concerted effort from users, industry, and authorities, the impact of social media on cybersecurity can be managed and mitigated even as the digital social world keeps expanding.

More than ever the TRUST is mobile, and should be available everywhere for everyone (at least the mechanisms should be in place to choose from) Or we moving in direction only sometimes to only a few that can afford it? To be seen what the future will bring.