SOCIAL MEDIA

 What is social media?

Social media is a nontraditional media. This creates a virtual world that can be accessed through the Internet. It is a big network, which keeps the whole world connected. It is a very good medium of communication. It involves the exchange of information at a rapid pace, which contains news from every field.

Social media plays a positive role by which any person, institution, group and country etc. can be made economically, socially, culturally and politically prosperous. Through social media, there have been many developmental works that have enriched democracy, which has increased the unity, integrity, secularism, socialist qualities of any country.

We see many examples, which corroborate the above, in which one can see 'INDIA AGAINST CORRUPTION', which was a campaign against corruption which was fought on the streets as well as on social media due to which the huge population Anna Connected with Hazare's movement and made it influential.

During the 2014 general election, political parties played an important role in making the general public aware of the election using fierce social media. The use of social media in this general election increased the voting percentage, as well as increased awareness among the youth about the election. A large number of youths took to the streets to bring justice to 'Nirbhaya' through social media, forcing the government to enact a new and more effective law under pressure.

Social media is a great platform for spreading popularity, where a person can make himself or any of his products more popular. Today, the trailer of movies, TV programs are also being broadcast through social media. Video and audio chats have also been facilitated through social media, with Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram being some of the major platforms.

While social media plays a positive role, some people also misuse it. Such people try to divide people by spreading maliciousness by using social media in a wrong way. Misleading and negative information is shared through social media, which adversely affects the public.

Many times the matter gets so much that the government becomes strict on misuse of social media and we have seen that the government has to ban social media even in a state like Jammu and Kashmir. Social media was also banned in the farmers' agitation in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra so that anti-social elements could not carry out any major incident under the guise of the peasant movement.

Just as a coin has two sides, social media also has two sides, which are as follows -

Impact of social media in daily life

It is a very fast communication medium

• It gathers information in one place

• Provides easy news

• For all classes, such as educated class or uneducated class

• In any way, no person is the owner of any content.

• Photos, videos, information, documents, etc. can be shared easily

Side effects of social media

• It provides a lot of information, many of which is also misleading.

• Information can be twisted in any way.

• By changing the nature of any information, it can be made provocative which has nothing to do with reality.

• Lack of original source due to no owner of content here.

• Privacy completely dissolves.

• Editing photos or videos can spread confusion, sometimes resulting in the possibility of riots.

• Cyber ​​crime is the biggest problem related to social media