Dermatoethics consultation“You’d know if you ‘friended’ me on Facebook”: Legal, moral, and ethical considerations of online social media
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Sometimes it is hard to imagine a world without online social networking. Whether it is blogs, Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, MySpace, Skype, Twitter, YouTube, or any other Internet-based social networking application, we are a society that is becoming dominated by online digital forums. In 2010, Facebook surpassed Google as the most visited site in the United States,1 with over a billion monthly active users and more than 550 million daily active users.2 These web-based applications, dubbed
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