social media is a force for good or a force for ill?

Social Media
Social Media can be a good thing for society when it comes to spreading the word around. To what happened on the attack on Paris is an example where many people had used the power of the social media to contact their love ones. That is an important role in where back then it was very difficult to contact their love ones in an emergency and had no way to spread the word on what as happening. When an attack happen in 9/11 many people couldn't contact anyone because of the attack that happen and where all phone lines where shut down and many people had no access to reaching their love ones. This is where many people didn't have this advantage and is a big role because it could happen anywhere and your brother,sister, or kid is at school and could not reach someone to pick them up because you have no access to any transportation. Also if you stuck in the middle of the attack and was able to get away and could reach for help or to let people know that your okay. So having to use social media to let  people know on whats helping and spreading the word around the world is a big step because it has gotten to the point where its much easier to do something like that.

Bad Way 
The other hand because social media s the place to spread the word around. Many people use that power to gather people and recruit people in where can help them plan the next attack or something similar. So it can also be used the wrong way. It can help people know around the world that they are fine during a bad situation but is also a place where it all started. So many people have to have that in mind where its a place that can lead to bigger threats. Where it can bring better people that can provide more damage to world.

What i don't get is that if people are recruiting other people to join, many counties have the technologies to know whats happening around the network. The enemies must have hackers but we all know that government train and get the best hackers so why not use that power to see whats happening around the network. Government also spy on people with technologies that we use everyday but yet cant find the people who is planning all of this. Recently on the attack of Paris the group of anonymous have hack into the enemies accounts and put it viral around the media for everyone to see. If they was able to do that why coudnt the government do it as well.