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Viral videos, self-destructive Facebook feeds, and the disrespecting of dead children. It’s here, it’s terrible, and it’s true.

Social media is a great tool to wield—but just like a hammer or a knife, using it the wrong way can leave you in an embarrassed or even severely damaged state. Need some examples to convince you to be careful? Here are 10 prime examples of social media negatively (and sometimes humourously) affecting companies and people, from using it the wrong way to letting it get used against them.

Forget location for a minute, we reckon curation could be the next social media gold rush. The World Cup has already demonstrated that users will flock to sites (and brands!) who can curate the social media noise into something impacting and visual and the tools exist to make everyone of us a curator of some sort.

In fact you probably already are a curator if you reblog, retweet or even just ‘like’ things around the web for your own networks to find.

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