SOCIAL MEDIA, SOCIETY AND LAW- CONTEMPORARY ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

The impact and importance of social media in the Indian context are increasing a lot day by day. Be it the youth of the country or all classes of people who try to express themselves through social media. Various Information and thoughts are exchanged through Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter, Orkut, Telegram, instagram and other social media. But as much as there are advantages of social media, there are also disadvantages. Many times a person or a society at large is defamed through social media knowingly or unknowingly by such messages. Due to this, there is a need for laws to exist for the proper functioning of law and order maintenance and to control social media. The impacts of social media on public life and the freedom of expression of people are now being discussed and researched in different aspects. But it is necessary to conduct new research on social media, society, and the laws related to it and reach those laws to the people. Through this research, the researcher will analyze social media, our society, and laws on social media and analyze the extent to which the government can limit people's rights through laws. For this research, the researcher will use the Doctrinal method of fully available materials and information.