Facebook and social mediaFacebook
Facebook is an example of a social networking site. It is free to use and generates revenue through advertising. Over 845 million users log into Facebook each month with 483 million users logging in daily.

By the end of 2011, Facebook announced there had been 100 billion friend connections, and in recent months users had registered 2.7 billion Likes - a way of letting Facebook users register their approval of a post, business, group or web page - and Comments per day [1].

Social Media and Health Professionals
There have been a number of reported cases in which medical professionals have experienced difficulties after the inappropriate use of social networks [2].

Both the GMC (in 2013) and the BMA (in 2012) have reacted to this issue by publishing best practice guidelines on the appropriate use of social media.
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