This was written for CAS 842: Professional Communication Ethics in the Michigan State University Strategic Communications MA program. Do you think social media does more harm than good? NYU Professor Scott Galloway, in his Ted Talk titled “How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google manipulate our emotions,” compares social media (SM) titans to biological functions. Google is the brain, Facebook is the heart, Amazon is the gut, and apple is the irrational organ driving shareholde