Essay on Social Media and Violence

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Hi friends, today I would like to share an essay about social media and its negative impact on our society. Social media is a technology now a days we are using widely in our smart phones, laptops etc.. social networking sites are used to sharing the ideas, our thoughts, views and information. It refers to websites and apps etc.. that are allow people to share content quickly in real-time. It is used to create content and interact with each other.

In social media people share all their emotions of  love and hate, aggression and violence over these social media platforms. Especially an adolescent boy or girl easily trapped in teenage attractions, obscene images, movies, videos etc.. will create negative impact on their studies and mental growth. Children also influenced by video games, online games etc.. Recently we heard about Blue-Whale game, how many children comitted suicides and some children ruin their lives with civiar injuries and psychologial problems.

To prevent social media violence, Proper education and awareness need to be encouraged in the schools and colleges. Parents compulsory has observation on their children and did not allow to use android phone. Because not only children, educated youth, employees, house wives also edicted to smart phone, smart phone is useful if we used in correct way, other wise it destroy our personal and professional life. Let us discuss elaborately in our essay, Prepare well friends thank you.

Topic: Social Media and Violence:-

Our social systems are such that they provide security, stability and rules and regulations to the society. But, social media is entirely a different concept, where society and  media amalgamate into each other to produce something entirely different. Here, people do socialize according to the principles of a normal society, but the rules and regulations that hold people to do or not to do certain acts and behaviour are not present in this new adventurous technology. The pace with which this technology has developed and spread in entire world is amazing and it has biggest impact on the life of individuals effected by them and society as a whole. Since, every new discovery has pro's and con's so does the social media, where virtual violence and effectual physical violence take place. These, relations need to be analyzed in deep.

First, we will take examples of social media and how they operate. Social media pertains to sites such as facebook, orkut, twitter, wordpress, google+, instagram and many more sites where people can socialize and interact with known persons or strangers who hold accounts on those specific sites. Now, these interactions are of varying nature, such as in twitter the tweets can be followed or retweeted, in facebook the posts can be viewed, liked and commented and in wordpress a focused blog could be made, where people can comment and interact in more focused way.

Understanding the basics of these sources will make us understand what effect they have on society and individual's life in the modern world. Earlier, people used to chat on telephones with other persons whom they needed to talk to. Those conversations were brief and too the point in most of the cases, as call charges were higher. After, that mobile technology came, and charges dropped down with more easiness to interact through chat and talk. After, that Social media tools came which made it even more easier to remain in touch with each other, and most of these sites are free. Thus, user needs to just posses a medium and net connection to interact.

So, we can see that technology did help in bringing down the costs and making it easier to be in contact and touch with each other. But, these created another aspect, where, the social media popularity and false virtual world had negative impact on an individuals mind too. The number of likes on a photograph of self, the comments, cut off from outside real world, emotions being converted to texts and constant urge to be popular on social media created such a situation where, any individual who is not so popular on social media could feel mentally harrased and depressed. This further leads to tension, guilt, neglect, loss of health and leisure. So, social media has increased mental violence.

Then, the other aspects comes such as individual freedom of expression being unchecked and without regulations, where one can force his views on others, even if they don't like so. Such acts also result in different types of violence. A person getting bullied and abused on social media through messages may feel helpless. Although, Section-66 of IT act has banned any such interactions and made them punishable criminal offense, but still such things are happening due to easiness of creating fake identity through fake accounts and doing malicious acts which one couldn't perform in a free society directly due to fear of society and law.

Another, form is related to posting of content which is offensive to an individual section of population and can hurt their sentiments. Acts such as posting of derogatory pictures of Shivaji and Bala Saheb Thakare created communal tension and violence resulting in subsequent death of an innocent youth from a particular religious community. Also, during riots hate comments, speeches, videos shared through social media, work as strong helping winds to spread the fire of violence in a peaceful social jungle.

But, no one could deny that social media is revolutionary and has created positive violence events. Arab spring and the spread of democracy, free thoughts, expression and speech, and instant closeness of world and connectivity has revolutionized the thinking of a common person who now feels attached to world events and doesn't feel himself an isolated part of the society with limited reach.

Now, people have became more aware of their rights, and can come to roads to protest against any injustice being done in society. The Anti-corruption crusade of social activist Anna Hazare became extremely popular through popular support of social media. People, demanded democratic government in Arab nations not because they were intimidated to do so, but because they came to know the pro's and con's of various systems of governance, and they debated, argued, countered various statements and views through such free systems, and judged for themselves which system is best for them. So, democracy got vindicated not because its the best system, but because people consider it best. They can effectively bring revolutions by having solidarity through such virtual connecting tools and create a virtual elusive front which is hard to crush by any unjust power, unless it has control over this free medium and is able to manipulate it.

Talking about manipulation, which is the biggest tool of propaganda creating people, the social media is a potent tool to spread a particular thought through proper strategy and

campaigning. So, these can easily spread the rumors, false news like death of any eminent personality, personal news of individual lives, derogatory comments and most of all creating a sense of fear towards something which doesn't exists, such as religious animosity and hatred among particular religions and need to take up arms to protect our own culture and religion.

So, we can see that social media has both positive and negative aspects which are governing the fast changing world. Now, lets talk the nature of these changes and if they are good/bad and reversible/irreversible. Also, what are the solutions to the problems commonly faced by the society due to this new technology.

If we look at history, any technology which brings drastic changes does stabilize only after going through a transitory period. None, of these technologies becomes obsolete just because they had bad effects, but only because society advanced to either more advanced systems or either because their effects were drastic in nature and the need to control such technologies was necessary for survival of earth. Ex-Nuclear technologies and the use of force by powerful countries to stop the spread of this for military usage in world after watching the disasterous effects in Nuclear bombings of  Heroshima and Nagasaki in Japan during World War-2.

So, social media is also irreversible and will keep on growing despite having many side effects which lead to spread of individual and social violence. Then, what's the solution? Is it banning these sites or making strict regulations to curb the freedom enjoyed by netizens. The answer is a "big NO". Yes, some form of restrictions are necessary to maintain law and order situation, but curbing such useful tool which spreads knowledge, awareness, free interaction in society and truly provides freedom of thought and speech will be like adopting feudal society so that we could evade the ill effects of industrial revolution.

So, No and never should the social media be banned. But, in fact it should be made more powerful to deal with the menaces that society is facilities by creating efficient moderation by the groups of users who use these services. Ultimately its the users of these services who will have to take the responsibility to uphold the sanctity of Social Media which has made world a single entity with no particular focus on caste, creed, colour, social status or boundaries which divided the humans from being human and spreading humanity.

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