DID SOCIAL MEDIA MAKEING OUR BEHAVIOUR VULNERABLE TO CRIMINAL & HATE NATURE ?
Recently Delhi municipality had removed illegal encroachments at jhangirpur so a trend of #saveindianmuslims started on Twitter which is not fact-based but it spread all over India and started protesting against the government and also started division between Hindus and Muslims and created many debates on tv channels not only it but also in many cases the popularity of social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat have transformed the way we understand and experience crime and victimisation This kind of crime has been emerging threat to Indian society mainly targeting individuals & groups but what causes individuals & groups more vulnerable is the excess release of dopamine in the brain for this kind of issues and tends to DOOMSCROLLING(individual don’t know what to do and they became vulnerable to misconception ideas ) which has an impact on peoples behaviour.
What makes social media more attractive for use and what makes it vulnerable to change in behaviour (DOOMSCROLLING)?
Social media platform makes unpredictability & randomness its features so people are more vulnerable to these features this tends to excess release of dopamine and cause behaviour change like DOOMSCROLLING (individual don’t know what to do and they became vulnerable to misconception ideas) by this behaviour Social media platforms will trace likes, follow, platform time spend, reel time watching of people by the algorithms of social media platforms and creates a social profile for individuals & Groups target them using popping of irrelevant & criminal natured ads in fruitful method this makes individual & groups vulnerable to many misconceptions and increase hate among different communities & individuals in some cases makes themselves involve in crimes. By this syndrome social media platforms capitalising attention of individuals & groups to make revenues
So DOOMSCROLLING syndrome has an effect on Individuals & Groups like
Among individuals targeted people are 1,) children by making them install gaming platforms & is influencing them towards unproductive things makes the children becoming vulnerable to diseases like depression & anxiety. 2)Women are more vulnerable to social media crimes like in recent times BULLI BAI app which objectifies women belonging to a particular community and many more crimes. 3) Persons suffering from financial problems are vulnerable to online loan apps and they end up their lives due to not being able to pay interest for them these are major initiate that hat takings take place in India against individuals
But the story of vulnerability among Groups is completely different Because India has diverse cultures and religions so the historical division has been earlier created like Hindus and Muslims so many social media mob groups are trying to destabilise the government by using this kind of imaginary divide by funding many fake news creators and make people watch this kind of content by using technical algorithms one of the examples open society foundations which are funding many fake news creators in twitter so this is the story behind trending the the the same hashtag for any reason in India.
An eye for an eye makes everything blind so people should be very vigilant while reading is seeing any kind of news, Government is taking many initiatives like IT rules 2021 which makes media platform of high viewership has to arrange complaint officers to tackle this kind of attacks on a different section of society but this is not sufficient governments also restrict usage of open source platforms like GitHub & should make stringent data protection law and taking measures to detoxicate our behaviour towards social media, at last, it is our responsibility to unite India rather dividing it by following fake news. (THINK BEFORE SHARING & FOLLOW)
CH.J.V.K.Sathya.Swaroop