Comments on “The Stress Factor of Social Media”

Thank you for your interesting editorial on "The Stress Factor of Social Media" in the June 2018 issue of Aesthetic Surgery Journal.¹ But I was hoping to find some mention of the most important flaw with social media, which in my opinion is the prime reason for social media related stress, and which you did not touch upon at all. That flaw is the fact that any individual can create as many fake profiles and post as many fabricated posts as they desire. The social media have no way of, or are not interested in, authenticating such fake profiles. As a result, people are able to convert personal grudges into fabricated complaints about unreal procedures and jeopardize plastic surgeons' reputation under as many different guises as they want. Or worse yet, and believe me, this is happening in our part of the woods, plastic surgeons (or possibly cosmetic surgeons) are able to post fabricated negative reviews in order to jeopardize their competitors.