Tisha Pattnaik, BA-LLB, Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad
INTRODUCTION
Anyone can use social media to communicate with long-living relatives and friends, as well as with their spouses, kids, and health professionals. Social media use, on the other hand, might result in less quality in-person interaction with dear ones and marital discontent. These flaws could be the result of pre-existing relational problems or psychiatric illnesses.
Social media is a computer based technology widely used to ideas, views, opinions and thoughts across the world through the virtual networks and communities. It is a part of mass media which was unknown to many people for years. It is a new medium of keeping people engaged in their leisure. The concepts such as liking of posts, sharing them and number of followers and connecting with new people have gained great significance. Social Media doesn’t only helps people connect but also engages people in a lot of other things like shopping etc. Social Media allows people to keep an update about the lives of their near and dear ones by sharing pictures and personal information. They can also modify the privacy level and share their personal information in their private circle. Through social media, people can improve their communication skills as social media allows them all source of communication, through chats using stickers, gifs etc. This gives people time to formulate right words which might not be possible in in-person conversations.
