Poadcast: Youth & Social Media | 16 February, 2025

Summary

In this vibrant episode of Real Talk by Sansad TV, host Abhinandan Call leads a discussion exploring the multifaceted impacts of social media, especially from a youthful perspective. Joining him are three young panellists: Jan Sarangi, a law student; Adya Bat Naga, a commercial pilot and influencer; and Ritvik Maa, a policy think tank founder. The conversation uncovers how social media influences mental health, fosters economic opportunities, affects consumer behaviors, and shapes public policy discussions. However, it also acknowledges the double-edged sword nature of such platforms, highlighting issues like social isolation, misinformation, and data privacy. Through diverse insights and solutions offered by the guests, this episode encourages viewers to navigate social media mindfully and responsibly.

Highlights

• Understanding how social media serves as a platform for both connection and isolation 🤝📴.
• Youth voices are reshaping economies and offering fresh perspectives through digital engagement 💡🌐.
• Discussing mental health impacts related to social media usage and seeking a balanced consumption 🌈🧠.
• The challenge of privacy in the age of digital tracking and data collection, urging for responsible usage 🔍🔐.
• How misinformation spreads rapidly in online spaces, emphasizing the need for fact-checking and critical assessment 🌐⚠️.

Key Takeaways

• Social media is both a bridge and a barrier - it connects us globally yet can isolate individuals personally 🤝📴.
• Youth today are leveraging social media for economic gains and personal growth, but must navigate its pitfalls carefully 💼⚠️.
• Mental health and social media are intricately connected, affecting users positively and negatively 🙇‍♀️🤔.
• Digital privacy is crucial for a more secure online presence; mindful usage can mitigate many risks 🚨🔒.
• Amid misinformation threats, critical thinking and verifying sources remain essential practices 🔍📰.

Overview

In this eye-opening discussion, Sansad TV delves into the intricate relationship between youth and social media. Host Abhinandan Call is joined by a dynamic panel - Jan Sarangi, Adya Bat Naga, and Ritvik Maa, representing diverse educational and professional backgrounds. They bring forward unique experiences and reflect on how social media is a daily companion yet a complex disruptor in their lives. The conversation flows through topics such as mental health, economic opportunities, and social media's role in policy-making.

As the dialogue progresses, panellists dissect the double-edged nature of social media. While it provides vast opportunities for economic advancement and personal branding, it simultaneously challenges mental well-being and fosters consumerism. The roundtable further explores methods to balance online and offline interactions, suggesting tools and habits for mindful social media consumption.

In addressing digital privacy concerns, the panellists highlight the importance of awareness and individual responsibility. They emphasize the need for prudent posting and personal data management in an era where online footprints are permanent. Additionally, they discuss how misinformation can distort reality, urging users to apply critical thinking and verify sources before sharing content.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction The chapter introduces the podcast 'Real Talk: The Truth About Youth and Social Media,' hosted by Sunset TV. It aims to explore the impact of social media on individuals and society from a youthful perspective, promising fresh, interesting, educative, and dynamic discussions.
• 00:30 - 01:30: Meet the Panelists In this chapter titled 'Meet the Panelists', the host Abhinandan initiates a discussion with three young and dynamic individuals who have experienced the evolution of social media from its inception. The conversation is set up to explore their unique experiences and perspectives, with an aim to provide viewers with insightful discussions on the topic.
• 03:30 - 06:30: Impact of Social Media on Mental Health The chapter begins by introducing the topic of social media, highlighting its various dimensions and issues. The conversation is started with a warm welcome and requests for brief self-introductions from the participants. Each participant is asked to share their personal perspectives on social media, acknowledging that it can mean different things to different people. Some may view it as a tool for enjoyment and pleasure.
• 11:00 - 18:00: Balancing online and offline lives The chapter titled 'Balancing online and offline lives' discusses different ways people engage with social media. It highlights various perspectives on social media usage: some people use it for leisure, entertainment, and information, while others use it as a networking tool or even as a means of livelihood. The transcript briefly introduces Jan Sarangi, a law student at the University of Delhi, who uses social media primarily for leisure, entertainment, and information.
• 18:00 - 23:30: Social Media Economy The chapter titled 'Social Media Economy' explores the multifaceted role of social media in the professional lives of individuals. It features voices like Adya Bat Nagar, a commercial pilot who has also become an influencer on Instagram. She discusses her journey of monetizing her social media presence, highlighting the unexpected opportunity to earn income from this platform, showcasing the dual role she plays as both a content consumer and producer. Another perspective is provided by Ritvik Maa, founder of a youth policy think tank, who views social media primarily as a tool for sharing thoughts and insights. While the excerpt only introduces these individual experiences, it sets the stage for a broader discussion on how social media functions as both a career path and a personal broadcasting network.
• 23:30 - 33:30: Voice Amplification and Fake News The chapter explores the use of social media platforms for voice amplification and hiring in the realm of public policy. It highlights how experts, such as economists and geopolitical analysts, utilize platforms like LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter to connect, share insights, and recruit researchers. The narrative underscores the significance of these digital tools in bridging connections among public policy enthusiasts and professionals.
• 33:30 - 45:30: Privacy Concerns and Digital Footprint This chapter kicks off a discussion on the diverse use of social media, highlighting its potential for networking, livelihood, and various personal and professional purposes. The panel consists of a diverse group, including a student, an influencer, and a policy analyst, which promises a broad range of perspectives on privacy concerns and digital footprints. The chapter sets the stage for an engaging discussion.
• 45:30 - 47:30: Conclusion This chapter focuses on the critical importance of mental health for every individual. It highlights the mind as the core of consciousness, where thoughts and ideas originate before being enacted through bodily actions. The discussion emphasizes the profound impact of social media, which is deeply embedded in our lives, affecting our mental well-being.

Poadcast: Youth & Social Media | 16 February, 2025 Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 [Music] hello and welcome to # Real Talk the truth about Youth and social media a podcast by Sunset TV where we'll be decoding the impact of social media on our lives and on the society in general but with a youth perspective a perspective which promises to be fresh interesting educative and dynamic and for that very purpose I'm your host
• 00:30 - 01:00 abhinandan call and today with me I have three very young Dynamic and bright Minds with me they are perhaps the first generation who saw social media from its Inception lived through its Evolution and I guess I've Aid users now so thank you so much for being here with us today and I I'm sure that you all have a great deal of experiences and a great deal of perspectives that you're going to bring to the table today so it's going to be a very fruitful discussion and I hope that our viewers also get a clear view about
• 01:00 - 01:30 what social media is and the various dimensions and issues that concern it so a hearty welcome once again and uh before we start our discussion I think it would be prudent if each one of you can give us a brief introduction you know tell us about yourself what you do and uh also if you can uh tell us about something about what social media means to you say social media means different things to different people right there can be some people who use social media as a tool to say get pleasure and enjoy
• 01:30 - 02:00 in their free time then then there are those who use social media as a tool to sort of interact and network and then again there are those who use it as a livelihood itself so social media means different things and I want to hear it completely that what it means to you and let's let's hear it all hi my name is Jan sarangi and I a law student at University of Delhi uh I am also another consumer of content on social media it is my source for leisure enter entainment and information and uh I
• 02:00 - 02:30 think I'm still exploring uh all the tangents of whatever it has to uh offer me hi I'm adya bat nagar I am a commercial pilot and also I'm an influencer on Instagram so it is also means of livelihood for me now even though I never thought that you know I can make money out of it but I'm also a consumer and a producer as well hi everyone my name is ritvik MAA I'm the founder of a youth L policy Think Tank niit Tantra for me social media is a platform to share My Views about
• 02:30 - 03:00 government policies as well as to connect with those experts who are in the field of public policy like connecting with various economists or those who have very good hold over the geopolitics at the same time I also use social media to hire those people who are interested in public policy the researchers uh LinkedIn being one of the best platforms for me but nowadays I do find people on messaging me on Instagram on Twitter as well so you know all these platforms are serving a good platform to hire researchers all right so that's
• 03:00 - 03:30 very interesting it's fascinating to hear right that uh one thing social media it can be used in infinite number of ways you can use it for networking you can use it for livelihood and so on you all very eloquently mentioned that and I'm happy that we have such a diverse panel today with us uh we have a student and then we have an influencer in the house the star and then we have a policy analyst and political consultant so it's very very uh interesting and I hope that uh we have a great discussion today let's start our discussion from
• 03:30 - 04:00 something that I believe is uh very important for all of us by virtue of being human beings and that's mental health right because uh A A sound mind is the one of the most important things that we have to have the mind is sort of a seat of Consciousness wherein all the thoughts and ideas take incept and then we act on them using our body and our actions so therefore it's natural that since social media has such a great role to play it is integrated within our lives to such a great extent it
• 04:00 - 04:30 certainly will impact uh your mental health so what I want to know is what do you think as Avid users of social media and uh those who have been using since the days of its early days of its Inception what do you think are you know is the impact of social media on Mental Health both in positive and negative terms it's possible it's a double-edged sword right and also if there's some negative effect how can we sort of curb that negative effect and we can just take up the positives and Leverage social media and the power that it gives
• 04:30 - 05:00 I believe when we were first introduced to social media in our teens uh we did not see it becoming what it is today uh today uh I think uh with the more exposure that we have to social media the more validation and acceptance that we seek online on on these platforms we are also getting socially isolated so as much as I believe it is a place where we can socially Network and connect make Global friends it is also a place where we feel isolation because we're not able
• 05:00 - 05:30 to live a life that somebody on the Internet is portraying to live uh for example recently we have seen arise an eating disorders uh which are arising due to the toxic uh ideal body types or ideal body goals that are being put up or performed online and uh I mean there is another study where cosmetologists have coined a term called the Snapchat dysmorphia which is a risen due to the filters the the rise in number of uh you know Photoshop that is being happening on the platforms uh but at the same time
• 05:30 - 06:00 I also think that social media is also a platform where a lot of people suffering through mental health uh problems issues uh let's say like for depression can Channel their thoughts find the self-help groups find people they can relate with and talk about and bring more conversation to it all right so I mean that's a interesting dichotomy that you pointed out social media was it was made in order to help us connect with each other but now it's making us distant from each other other right it's
• 06:00 - 06:30 it's leading to issues like social uh isolation and then it leads to anxiety and depression so uh that's a very interesting way to look at it and uh certainly you know there are there's this kind of Perfect Image that people tend to portray on social media we have the perfect life only the highlights of Life are shown on social media the perfect paths and when you see that then you start to I mean even if you have a strong personality in your subconscious mind you tend to sort of compare yourself with that person and then again that uh that kind of fair comparison it
• 06:30 - 07:00 leads to uh some social dis some dissonance and then it's a major issue but yeah and then the positive aspect certainly is there I mean you you have access to support groups and uh you can get in touch with people uh like-minded people and you can also congregate and hold sessions Etc so that's a very interesting perspective both a positive and a negative so uh what what do you have to add to this ad you are a social media influencer so I think you'd have very nuanced opinion about this as a producer obviously you know I would say it's a good thing but uh insta social
• 07:00 - 07:30 media has its own pros and cons but we can certainly agree that you know screens make us unhappy that is for sure and it can be the constant urge to see what other people are up to seeing what they're posting and it's obviously their curated life it is not something which they're actually doing so let's say you know one person is having one good day out of 365 days and he will post that and the rest days are very bad he will not post that so when I see that I'm thinking oh he's having the time of his life and it's not just one person I'm following 100 other people so now now I know that you know 100 people are having
• 07:30 - 08:00 such a good life and then I compare it with my life so obviously you know I feel sad about it or you would you would envy other people so I think uh there is another Point she said Eating Disorders about the Eating Point so this happened with me yesterday I was just scrolling through my social media and then I saw Burgers on my feed and then I had this urge to order a burger at 3:00 a.m. in the morning so it obviously you know affects your buying patterns as well it affects consumerism as well all right that was interesting I mean uh certainly
• 08:00 - 08:30 I think that comparison is uh comparison especially on social media is the source of all sorrow so viewers should take note and uh tend not to compare themselves rather be confident about yourselves and somewhat uh you know we can also take motivation I mean even if people are showing their own uh perfect lives we can take some motivation from them and we can say Okay someday even I want to be this I even I want to go to these places or do these things and certainly uh this is a very very important point that you pointed out
• 08:30 - 09:00 that uh social in social media uh you get you're exposed to con different kinds of information constantly you will be exposed to some new game then some new food item and then your Cravings start and certainly Cravings are not going to follow the clock and and 3:00 a.m. in the morning you're going to uh have to order those burgers and what do you have to say rwi I consider that there are two words it's social media and other is Shan media the Hindi word soan exploitation so here we are ourselves getting exploited by the
• 09:00 - 09:30 content that is across the social media platforms talking about the first of all the positive uh aspect of it so I have seen a lot of people those who put up motivational videos across the social media platforms and I've seen people especially in the rural areas after seeing those videos especially those who want to crack competitive exams so it has somehow impacted their lives as well they got the motivation to crack the competitive exams also or do something for the society or anything they wanted to achieve but at the same time then uh you uh told that it's a double H sword
• 09:30 - 10:00 about the negative aspect so what I find is that when on social media when they try to express their views so there will be people who will have very different ideologies they will Express their views in their own way and there can be some vulgar comments as well it will impact your mental health as well because we are not ready for the type of comments that we are going to get on our post so I think so that has to be tackled and we can't just solve this problem by saying that okay uh you put out the content it's your views so you have to handle it
• 10:00 - 10:30 no like the government uh regulations also have to come into it there are regulations there are laws across the world which delete the those comments those vulgar comments after reviewing it within 24 hours and our government is doing it under the data protection Bill there are Provisions for that so You' have given a very nuanced perspective and uh by virtue of being a policy expert you mentioning laws and what the authorities can do uh that's certain but uh what I want to also know because since we have viewers who are who may be Aid users and are Aid users of social
• 10:30 - 11:00 media uh what are some ways that individually you know we can uh sort of Leverage social media's benefits but at the same time we can just you know uh sort of avoid those negative things right one way is to not compare yourself but it's easier said than done right so uh what are some ways because you guys have been Aid users so as a consumer what are the things that you would do uh in order to sort of just take the positives home and leave the negatives aside that social media has to
• 11:00 - 11:30 offer uh I think uh one of the ways that we can actually do is something like talking about it like we are talking about it today having more dialogue about it becoming more aware about our usage I think in the initial years when we were introduced to social media we just uh see all the Charisma behind it the the the Fabrics of you know the fancy behind it but uh the older you get you start realizing you know the impact of something like Doom scrolling or the impact of the number of hours you're spending online or the screen time you know everything having to do with your
• 11:30 - 12:00 like you said physical health your mental health uh for me personally what has worked uh in my this Venture of striking this balance between the goods and the bads is I think um being aware of my screen time you know today we do in our smartphones also have these facilities in their settings where we can uh regulate our screen time with pertaining to certain apps uh and another thing I've been using lately is the forest app which helps me uh lock my phone and focus and prioritize my work
• 12:00 - 12:30 and uh you you can also compete with your friends on that as well so you know whoever is spending as many hours away from their phone away from social media uh more so I think we should also I think actively choose how we see our notifications you know these small small things that can cause because the the the platform is designed in a way to distract us it is designed in a way to keep their business model running where we keep coming back to them again and again but I think uh if we find our own ways uh that can help us out of the situ
• 12:30 - 13:00 uh I'm sure like I have been working on it for a while now and I am getting somewhere so I think uh what you the gist of what you're trying to say is uh that self-awareness is the key and to achieve that self- awareness you can use apps and like the forest app you just mentioned and it's it's very funny that you know people are now even uh competing on how much social media time you're using they're competing on something positive but okay so uh what what are your views on this adya as an influencer as an influencer I think the key is to be an influencer by influencer
• 13:00 - 13:30 I mean to produce content so if you're busy producing something if you're busy doing something you won't have time to scroll I've I've tried the app Forest app earlier it used to help but I don't think I have that willpower to you know screen time go I would stop my screen time and I think the best way to tackle that problem is it is a hack which I found out so you can change your screen settings just convert it into a grayscale mode so now it's all black and white now you do not see the colors when that happens then it is not much stimulating so in that case you would
• 13:30 - 14:00 just you know not want to open your phone it is a very dull phone now it's just a box for you you're doing your work you need to self you need to be self-aware that you know you need to have the agenda that okay today I'm opening WhatsApp because I have to message this person or opening social media because I'm doing this particular thing not to Doom scroll so when you're self-aware as you already talked about that would help you reduce your stream time and be mentally fine with what you're doing all right so uh that's that's a very unique idea that you know you just uh get off the colors of your phone and then it won't that it won't
• 14:00 - 14:30 look that attractive so you would you tend to pick it up less so yes I think that's something that our viewers can certainly do and what do you think uh ritwik I mean apart from the solutions that you gave from uh governmental perspective or a law perspective as an individual what can be done in this so I think so it was uh first the first step towards this was to make me realize that okay these social media influencers they have a similar lives as just like we have and on social media of course just like uh both of them said that on social
• 14:30 - 15:00 media they want to put out the only happy things okay they are enjoying they having a vacation or they're producing content having a very successful life but also they also face uh demotivation just like we also face sometimes so I I do have some people social media influencers in my contacts I talk to them so it gives me something that okay uh like I'm not different from them secondly I also make it a point that I have to meet my friends like every weekend and uh we have to keep our phones aside when we are going to meet
• 15:00 - 15:30 that is also one of the points that we can take it that when you are with your family on a uh while having dinner or having lunch with your friends or family as well just put your phone aside switch it off yeah just not switch it off you can say just avoid it like you have family time switch your brain off from thinking about the notifications right so another solution can probably be just switch off the notifications all together except for the phone so that people can reach out to you so yes certainly you know uh lately I I went to a restaurant where they have the system where they have a jar and you can all
• 15:30 - 16:00 put your phones in it and they seal it so if you don't use it throughout the meal they give you a 10 20% discount of that that's a great thing I mean I'll ask you the restaurants number I I would like to go there I would like to add something so at my home this is what my mom has come up with so in the Kitchen near the dining room so we have this space called No Phone Zone so if anyone is seen with a phone then you know we give a punishment and that and then the person has to do that so that is something you can come up with and also one more point to tackle your social media addiction so that you know you do not use it use it much so you can
• 16:00 - 16:30 unfollow all the pages which do not add productive value to your life and which does not trigger you opening your phone so that is something which you can do certainly I mean social media initially uh had the motive of as I said connecting us and also being productive but now there's this new kind of concept that's emerged of brain rot right this this low effort content which uh is weirdly you can say interesting or maybe novel that's why we get addicted to it and we spend any Less hours scrolling it
• 16:30 - 17:00 right so that's uh that's uh that's interesting to know that how we can balance this offline and online lives because I believe that in the words of Lord Buddha uh the madham mag or the right balance has to be achieved you can't live in isolation right so now that we have talked about uh these next uh so what so-called negative aspects of social media uh I would like to move on to uh a more positive aspect that may have negative implications as well and that is of you know uh using social media as a producer right now we were
• 17:00 - 17:30 just talking how as a consumer we should protect ourselves and Etc but as a producer you can see that how social media in the ne in the last uh 10 15 years it has led to a growth of an entirely new economy we have social media influencers one sitting with us here and uh we have entrepreneurs who are opening new apps and certainly even the forest app that you just mentioned it is it also exists because social media is addictive it exists because of social media so this entire economic ecosystem has been created by social
• 17:30 - 18:00 media and at the same point of time uh it is also as uh you had mentioned earlier uh affected the consumer Behavior wherein we you know there are trends that come and go so people start to purchase things impulsively so what do you think you know in detail uh you know how has social media in this in this respect been a positive uh change of uh positive force wherein it has uh empowered people economically and at the same time how is it also you know it's it's negative impact rather it's it's
• 18:00 - 18:30 led to impulsive spending affected consumer behavior and what is the way out of this uh yes I totally agree uh we I mean if we see today in India we are a huge digital economy and social media is a huge part of it uh it helps us Foster entrepreneurship it helps us uh you know it may be your neighborhood Baker or your neighborhood tailor but today they have a social media presence which helps them get gain more customers you know in like provide growth to their business um
• 18:30 - 19:00 but at the same time like uh ad here mentioned that uh there is a change in consumer Behavior there is a change in spending patterns uh we see that we are easily influenced uh into buying things we might have never needed we are all somewhere dressed the same way wearing the same watches the same shoes because our point of influence has been the same we're all getting influenced by the same influencers sometimes we do fall for the marketing gimmicks the tricks we do not realize as consumers that the content we are consuming is shaping our habits of
• 19:00 - 19:30 uh expenditure and spending so uh yes obviously I totally agree but at the same time like you said you know the entire part where it is fostering entrepreneurship it is giving a chance to small businesses to have that kind of an online presence and reach uh to various cities in the country or globally so the globalization aspect of it is also a very positive outlook uh I definitely agree itth you know leads to mass overc consumption let's say I see this person posting different pictures and every time she
• 19:30 - 20:00 she or he they're wearing something different so then you know I think that I need to buy more clothes as well I need to look different every day I cannot repeat my outfit so obviously it's bad for your wallet it's bad for the environment as as well so that is one thing and about the good part obviously you know we're we're just talking about the bad things right now but obviously you get to connect with your friends I can obviously not practically be connected to everyone on social media but I know what my friend is up to also in my free time I learn a lot of new things as well let's say there's this creator I follow and he's telling about film making or anything so
• 20:00 - 20:30 I would follow him I get to learn a lot of things as well all right so ritwick do you have to add something for me it's like a social media economy I come from Amit sir and I remember that Amit is one of the like special item is like karti Punjabi jti you might have heard about it so there I got the shopkeeper connected with one of the social media influencer that influencer made a video for that he started selling it online uh he also put out some budget for the heads as well and within like 2 weeks or
• 20:30 - 21:00 3 weeks he said that my sales went from like 5 lakhs to 15 16 lakhs around through the meta head through the social media so I think so it's a social media economy and I was reading that report that around by the end of this year this whole economy will reach in India by 2,800 CRS and even the governments are also spending on uh hiring social media influencers so that it can create an impact to create awareness about the public policy wow that's that's very interesting to hear that now and this is this is a major positive isn't it that government can use social media
• 21:00 - 21:30 influencers who hold real influence in the public uh in order to sort of improve the penetration of schemes bring up more awareness about uh social issues so that's that's a new domain and that actually brings me to another segment of this show wherein uh you know social media it gives us a sort of a voice right and it it's it's it's not only giving us a voice it also helps us amplify them people of other Generations when social media didn't exist they didn't have this opportunity they could
• 21:30 - 22:00 say things they could write things but they didn't have the audience but now social media you can see that you know you you make a normal tweet if that goes viral even if you're you're nobody no one knows you you're not that you're a private person but when that goes viral everyone will hear what you have to say and I'm sure that even our viewers would uh notice this that regularly on platforms like Instagram or uh X that was formerly Twitter people uh you know you see that uh famous celebrities and famous uh lead ERS they get ratioed by
• 22:00 - 22:30 accounts of low follower count or Anonymous accounts and for the context of the viewers ratioing basically means that when your reply to a post it gets more likes uh and gets more engagement as compared to the original post itself so it basically shows that more people agree with what you're saying rather than what the other person has said so that kind of voice that kind of power that's what social media has given us but at the same time as we mentioned and emphasized earlier it's a double edged word so then again since it has it
• 22:30 - 23:00 amplifies things it also can be used to amplify things like fake news misinformation and with the addition of AI this domain it's it's become even more volatile because now you have deep fakes you can clone things Etc so what do you all have to say about it know regarding this concern and you know how can we navigate this issue so that uh you know we can use social media to bring real change on ground but at the same point of time sort of discern what is real from what is is fake so so that this entire issue of uh fake
• 23:00 - 23:30 misinformation it's it's dealt with uh no I do totally agree and I do believe that social media is a big Catalyst when it comes to social change uh we can take examples from the black lives matter to the me too movement it gives a platform to voices that might have been marginalized that might go unheard in a lot of other situations uh on the other hand I do agree that uh sometimes it tends to be an echo chamber uh because of the algorithmic decision- making we
• 23:30 - 24:00 are constantly exposed to the similar kind of uh news or facts uh or storylines so yes it does tend to become an echo chamber but that is where I think it is vital that we become mature users uh where we are able to differentiate between uh the kind of content that we are consuming certainly I mean this was a new point that you brought out that social media tends to become an echo chamber but for that we have Solutions you know now uh various uh sites theyve changing the algorithm wherein you you can also choose for an algorithm where diametrically opposite
• 24:00 - 24:30 viewpoints of yours interest of yours they pop up in your feed so there certainly is a way out for this and what do you have to say about this adya on social media I would suggest do not trust any news you should always cross check how we're talking about what is real what is not real even if it's some news right so you should see what the source is you should go to Google see the website where it's coming from certainly I mean uh you know whenever you get something that's out of the blue very surprising news surprising videos online it's always better to go and
• 24:30 - 25:00 check the source material to double check so that we are sure and not just be impulsive enough to just share it in abinandan there was a time when reporters on ground used to share the news with the anchors but apart from that nowadays we have social media journalism where we have social media Pages they just put out the content and no one verifies it whether it is the truth or not so I think so that has the capacity to even create Law and Order issues as well so I think so uh you have to the government has to regulate these things when because it has the capacity
• 25:00 - 25:30 to create a Law and Order issue as well yeah exactly and I think that even social media platforms uh must collaborate with the government in this uh issue because it's affecting the people at large and when you have great power you have great responsibility so we should use uh social media more responsibly right because it it gives us a voice so don't misuse it so before we wrap up I want to also just uh talk about uh the issue of privacy and social media because lately uh we we have realized that uh social media is not
• 25:30 - 26:00 just a place where we are posting our information and photos Etc there are social media companies who collect information on the back end they track our information and uh they some even sell them to third party companies for advertising and other purposes so as users of social media yourself how do you feel how concerned a user especially a young impressionable mind like a youth should be uh with respect to their online digital footprint and privacy and uh at the same time what are some ways
• 26:00 - 26:30 as users of social media uh you guys have adopted in order to sort of uh protect uh to some extent your uh digital footprint online uh today I think we have to acknowledge and accept that privacy online is not at all guaranteed uh it is not at all confirmed uh it is honestly all discretionary decisions that we make uh that have a huge impact uh where to you know where we draw the line between personal and public the information we want to share
• 26:30 - 27:00 because uh we have been way more searchable than we have ever been so I think it takes a responsible individual or a mature individual decision making as to what you want to put out online because uh uh like we've seen you know it may be deep fakes or cyber bullying uh or you know instances of uh the way AI is uh uh meddling with these things has having a very negative impact and uh for me person personally I think uh again like I said that uh maintaining
• 27:00 - 27:30 that line uh that border line between what is personal to me and what I'm sharing outside because honestly I cannot trust a stranger out there I cannot trust the third person out there uh and it is it is uh it is a very primary concern when it comes to social media use as she said that you know we do not want to share some things out there in the public me being a Creator obviously I I have lot of digital print out there right but I have my private profile as well where I share my very private things which I would want to share with my family and closed ones so
• 27:30 - 28:00 one thing which you need need to do is you need to keep your ID private and you have to make sure that it doesn't go anywhere else even if it's out somewhere you never know people take screenshots they reshare it by the time you delete it it's already out there adya said that we can make our profiles uh private as well but those who have large number of followers who have a public profile there is a threat that okay your profile can be hacked your account can be hacked so two Factor authentication can be turned on to prevent all these things so that was uh that was very interesting
• 28:00 - 28:30 and uh I think that you have summed up almost everything that is to talk about Youth and social media so thank you so much for being with us here today and I feel that conversations like these are very important to have because as has been emphasized in this entire podcast social media is shaping Our Lives it's no longer a small part of our life right and it's important to make informed decisions informed choices and use social media in an informed Manner and our viewers uh get something uh that
• 28:30 - 29:00 they can think about maybe it's uh the time that they spend on social media or maybe it's the way that they interact with content the type of content that they interact with or even as we just discussed how they can protect their uh digital media footprint so uh very thank you again for joining us today and uh to our viewers thank you so much for watching Sunset TV stay tuned for more such engaging discussions thought-provoking insights and conversations that shape the future
• 29:00 - 29:30 thank you so much that's it for today J [Music] Hind to watch more programs of sunset TV subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to like and share them