Is Social Media Entertainment r A Dose of Poison?

Social media started with a very good idea and made connectivity very easy all over the world. Where we can connect with each other and share our thoughts. But in the last few times I have seen that if any medium has been misused the most today, then it is social media. And as its use is increasing, its negative effects are also coming to the fore along with the positive ones. Which are directly hitting the Indian society and family. On the one hand, while social media is introducing us to unknown people sitting far away, on the other hand it is also doing the work of making our acquaintances unaware of us. And at the same time, the work of spreading the perversion of physical lust in the society through social media by obscene elements is also being done.

Especially if we look after the Corona period, unemployment has increased, people resorted to social media to pass time. People started with good content and gradually due to lack of content, today social media has become a hub of soft porn. Somewhere a mother is making pornographic content with her young son, somewhere relationships are being shamed. This has had the most impact on our new generation. Girls today are waiting for likes and shares by uploading semi-nude videos, while boys are serving dirty content in the name of vulgar comedy. What kind of a way is this to become famous? The dancers who used to perform dances during the times of kings and emperors have been replaced by modernity today, crossing all limits in the name of fashion. If random people make comments on their posts, they like it and they reply with emojis to thank them.

There was a time when all this was active on TikTok. Suddenly TikTok was shut down keeping in mind the security of the nation, then all those TikTok stars who dyed their hair red, yellow, green, pink, suddenly became active on Instagram. This disease took such a terrible form that many people became its victims. Recently, in the Terai area of ​​Farrukhabad, a 24-year-old girl attacked her two younger brothers when they stopped her from making reels on Insta, and also tried to strangle one of them. According to the Times of India report, the girl was later sent to jail on the basis of the family’s complaint. The girl may have gone to jail, but now even police stations and outposts are not spared from this grip of Insta. Recently, one after the other such reels were seen, in which even policemen posted on duty were making reels in uniform and uploading them on their accounts.

There was a time when children used to make notes together, check their marks, but now the disease of reels has progressed so much that children are making reels instead of making notes and are looking at likes and views instead of exam marks.

Even though some people call them a hobby, but in the eyes of psychiatrists, making reels or posing in different positions comes under the category of self-obsessive disorder, which is also called “selfitis” in medical science. In another form, it is also called a mental illness, in which a person gets so lost in himself that he does not care about his family.

He first makes his reel, then searches for a dialogue or song for the second reel. He watches thousands of videos of other users for them, then if he likes one of them, he makes his own reel. Then he looks at the likes and views on the first one.

If he gets less likes and views than he expects, then many times he chooses the path of stunts for views. Such incidents happen every day on Delhi’s Signature Bridge. While making reels on bikes there, youngsters not only become victims of accidents themselves, but also involve others. Some time ago, some school children were making reels on the song “Kaccha Badam”, when a tempo coming from behind hit them hard. Many people sitting in the tempo were seriously injured. In view of the increasing accidents, the local police has started patrolling there, but the art of reel lovers continues secretly.

Not only stunts, the incident is from Pali, Rajasthan. Here a young man Yogesh was also very fond of making reels. He used to upload one or two reels daily on Instagram, and was happy when he got views and comments. He was so engrossed in making reels that he forgot to eat and drink, let alone study. One day his father snatched his phone, Yogesh committed suicide in anger.

In so many families I saw, the child was not eating without a phone, he had to eat by watching Insta reels, so what could we expect from the children, they will make the future of the country? Although some people are still doing good work on social media, but they are only being criticized. The hero is the tea seller who is roaming around with two-three wives. If we want to save our society from the so-called influential people, then intellectuals will have to come forward here. Otherwise they will destroy our generations like a slow poison.

Secondly, in today’s time, social media is being used the most in our country, along with it, many false news or rumors are also being spread through it. People see it and believe it to be true. In a way, it has become the easiest way to brainwash people. If this is not taken care of in time, then just imagining what the future of India will be like, makes one feel scared.

BY-Meenakshi Sangwan