Social media faux pas in 2016: The annoying, the bad and the ugly

Social media platforms take up nearly two hours of our time every day, according to research firm GlobalWebIndex. (Marcel De Grijs/Dreamstime/TNS)

Social media can be a dark and twisted place, full of your high school friends cranking out their seventh kid and your aunt spouting horrifying political beliefs. 

Occasionally, this dark negative energy manifests in more poignant and malicious ways than just annoying you with the announcement of your second cousin's third marriage.