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Social media and privacy? What is the right way of regulating social media?

Social media are the platforms, precisely applications, and websites that use the internet and electronic gadgets to bring people together and interact with each other without physically being together. Such interactions lead to the sharing of ideas, knowledge, opinions and definitely the awareness about recent trends and events. Privacy, a fundamental right refers to a state of being free from public attention. Privacy and internet have an inverse relation, before the invention of internet which is basically the driving force of social media, the only means to know about a person’s well being were phone calls, letters and meeting in person.  Now the tables have turned, a person does that using social media, no interaction is required. People are posting their every activity on social media eating a pizza, attending a marriage, studying, everything is on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp. So, as the internet and hence social media penetrates the masses, the extent of