Unfortunately public functionaries particularly panchayat representatives and officials connected with developmental activities in the districts themselves encourage unwanted social media activities when they upload videos from the inspection spots during their field visits on social media sites just to boost their personal reputations.
Though social media sites have become the strongest mode of communication in the fast changing era of digital technology and more so for bridging the gaps between the Government and the people but the fact can not be denied that social media sites are hugely misused by the people inimical to the larger interests of public welfare . True it is that Government took several decision to counter fake news circulated by wrong doers with the intents of furthering the causes of unlawful activities but ultimately the Government could not fully curb the misuse of social media with the measures it has taken so for and ultimately it had to warn netizens of stringent and strict actions against misuse of social media sites. While warnings of stringent and strict actions to netizens misusing social media sites would hopefully reduce the rumour mongering and spread of fake news on social media sites, the restrictions over unwanted social media activities on public functionaries particularly panchayat representatives and officials connected with developmental activities in the districts could also reverse the trend of unwanted social media activities by netizens across Jammu & Kashmir. Unfortunately public functionaries particularly panchayat representatives and officials connected with developmental activities in the districts themselves encourage unwanted social media activities when they upload videos from the inspection spots during their field visits on social media sites just to boost their personal reputations. Restricted social media activities by particularly panchayat representatives and officials connected with developmental activities in the districts would hopefully prompt the netizens also to restrain from unwanted social media activities.
Administrative wisdom demands that people particularly panchayat representatives and officials connected with developmental activities in the districts restrain themselves from the unwanted use of social media sites with the intents of reducing the unprecedented rise in social media activities among both the children and as well as the elderly people. While the Government’s Department Of Information & Public Relations (DIPR) is putting in public domain all the orders, circulars, advisories and guidelines of the concerned departments on social media sites and doing it’s best to deliver such communications of public importance through print and electronic media to the last person in the remotest of the remote areas in both Kashmir Valley and as well as Jammu division, it is for the panchayat representatives and officials connected with developmental activities in the districts to restrain from engaging in unwanted social media activities just to reduce the increasing trends of social media activities among the people at grass roots in the districts .
In fact such restrictions if enforced on responsible functionaries in Governments offices in the districts would drastically reduce increasing intensity of the unwanted use of social sites by netizens across Jammu & Kashmir . In fact such practices and procedures if adopted to bring about attitudinal change among the people would consequently change the trends of the social media activities. Administrative wisdom demands that people particularly panchayat representatives and officials connected with developmental activities in the districts restrain themselves from the unwanted use of social media sites with the intents of reducing the unprecedented rise in social media activities among both the children and as well as the elderly people. While the Government’s Department Of Information & Public Relations (DIPR) is putting in public domain all the orders, circulars, advisories and guidelines of the concerned departments on social media sites and doing it’s best to deliver such communications of public importance through print and electronic media to the last person in the remotest of the remote areas in both Kashmir Valley and as well as Jammu division, it is for the panchayat representatives and officials connected with developmental activities in the districts to restrain from engaging in unwanted social media activities just to reduce the increasing trends of social media activities among the people at grass roots in the districts .
