Social Media- Freedom of Expression Or Power of Emotion

Social Media - A Way of Communication,
Sharing Views and Thoughts Digitally

The era of information technology has changed human life in unexpected ways. The human race is revolutionized like technical machines. The mechanisms of life have become fast and powerful in every area of life. The new way of communication embarked with giving freedom to human emotions and feelings expressing in their own ways. Life is no more dependent on the physical presence of people sharing their views, thoughts, and emotions. Now everybody has a chance to express themselves in their own ways fully without others’ intervention.

There are lots of social media platforms on the internet that provide the facility to connect and communicate with society through various mediums of writing, chatting, sharing pictures, and videos. Especially with the prime known started are Facebook and WhatsApp even the little kids are known to use these platforms very well. These platforms have established global connections between different parts of the world so easily and immediately. Now everybody has a medium to raise their voice and make it listen to everyone being reachable to every part.

Hereafter, people have chosen these platforms for their personal use, but their evil effects cannot be avoided. The social media platforms are created by the international authorities which run from their rules and regulations, but the global diversities do not allow it to be reasonable for everyone. People take it as a source of their own benefits to spread rumors, wrong information, or fulfilling their criminal tendencies. Even it has become the source of obscenity and vulgarity showing and sharing the adult content on these platforms. There are no restrictions on any of these activities, even kids have access to these prohibited platforms, 

Using these social media for big levels as per grouping on social and political reasons, mud-slinging on others, abusing or tarnishing anyone’s image has provided an easy source to people by writing their own intentions in a few seconds, which leads to great disorders in society. The recent event in India in the last couple of months, while the Indian court has ordered these social media platforms to be regulated under the law giving the options to be followed is quite legitimate.

The court has ordered these companies to follow these guidelines and systematically organize their technical structure to provide a clean environment for everyone for following these rules.

The first one is listening to complaints and solving them within a definite time. And appointing three officers for particular posts as below:

• Chief compliance officer- The compliance officer needs to be appointed for noticing people‘s complaints about disturbing issues.

• Nodal Contact Officer- This position is for handling issues to remain connected with Indian investigation agencies in case of illegal activity on these platforms.

• Grievance officer- Who can listen to complaints of people and give a resolution within a definite time with a reason.

These social media companies should prepare monthly reporting of complaints to organize the structure of these platforms, so that misuse of this facility can be stopped. However, the Indian court has given the freedom to these companies under section IT Act 2000, section 79, according that, companies are not liable to found any unwanted activity or comment by anyone on these sites. But taking this freedom for granted and being irresponsible about people’s attitudes cannot be neglected.

It is necessary to make some rules and regulations for social media sites because a huge number of users are found on these sites in India. And the internet has become a very easy source of sharing and spreading information across various sources. The issue of guidelines through the Indian court is valid to control the wrong intentions of people. The issue of the tool kit on Twitter between two political parties Congress and BJP, in the last few days has shown the real face of how it can be used for manipulating anything for their own benefit.

It is a well-considered law to make people realize that assessing their words or content before sharing is part of their civic and ethical behavior. Hurting anyone’s feelings and damaging their image can be punishable for them. So the laws are needed to be followed by these companies by taking the privacy of data and information concerns. However, the head offices of the companies are located outside of India (in America) but the effect of misusing these platforms can be global.

These laws are beneficial for everyone, whether it is for companies, countries, or individuals who secure everybody’s welfare in cases of criminal or unauthorized activities on these social media sites. So extra time should be given to these companies to contemplate their norms and conditions and assess the future prospects to be precise in working criteria to keep a safe and clean digital environment for the next highly technical decades.