Ethical issues: ethical issues, particularly when examining social media, occur when events and practices become common that are at odds with the accepted community standards of any one community. While not illegal, ethical issues blur the line between right and wrong, acceptable and unacceptable. 

Legal issues: When exploring social media, legal issues are more serious. When the laws of individual locations are broken, it creates challenges for authorities to draw a clear line between the free access to communication tools and breaches of existing laws. 

Institutions, governments and individual are scrambling to find their place in our new era of social media, surveillance capitalism, and powerful algorithms

The line between ‘legal’ and ‘ethical’ has become increasingly grey, especially when we are now dealing in a world of glovablised Media, rather than Media regulated and legislated by only the Australian government.

Your goal should be to always clarify that line. With a critical eye, you should be able to see right from wrong and clarify how and when this relationship is showing signs of breaking.