Role of Social Media in the Changing Face of Indian Administration

The world in the 21st century is the world full of virtual reality and social media. India is the second largest country as per the population. Here every third person using the smartphone, which means they are active on social media's several platforms. They share the content on it daily for showing their appearance in the virtual world and try to influence others with their views. Still, at the same time, they also get affected by the content available on it where the problem arises for the govt to safeguard Indian administration. Social media is the cheapest way to access and has a tremendous reach in very little time with the unaccountability of anyone, which puts India's Indian administration into the danger zone. Almost everyone indeed accesses social media easily. Still, they are not aware of what kind of information is accurate and false, so Indian security forces facing a massive problem in this context. So, it completely changes the nature of Indian administration because any incident that took place in the physical world has some linkage with social media. So, the Government must deal with this problem in a very detailed manner, but the Government, instead of making a full plan to deal with the problem, just shut down the Internet at the time problem. We have the total number of the shutdown of the Internet in India is 349 out of which 180 times in Jammu and Kashmir itself, which is not the solution to the problem. Instead of solving the problem, it acts as ghee in the fire, which makes it worse. Indian Government released the report, which cites that 80 of crimes nowadays happing because the social media and not having a proper solution to deal with it. Google also find out that in India, more than 72 of youth believe that whatever is placed in social media is real and played an essential role in making their daily basis decision regarding any issue. Data from the National Crime Record Bureau and Ministry of Home Affairs shows that after 2012, the crime rate increase due to social media platforms. It thoroughly brainwashed the youth's mind and radicalized them towards any issue. So, the Government must have to deal with the problem properly otherwise, we will face a massive problem due to the meme culture of social media and content and post and stories. Youth, most of the time, spend on it through games and sharing the content of funny jokes meme, but it has some more impact. Mamta Kumari Tiwari | Dr. Anil Kumar Pareek "Role of Social Media in the Changing Face of Indian Administration" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-2 , February 2022, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd49374.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/social-science/49374/role-of-social-media-in-the-changing-face-of-indian-administration/mamta-kumari-tiwari