Doondthe rehjaoyge doondthe

I check my emails, my Facebook notifications, and my WhatsApp status regularly. It’s all about staying updated. But I’ve never really been curious about what these accounts know about me. The truth is, they know a lot.

Every day—sometimes every hour—I check them. But while I’m watching them, they’re also watching me.

Imaginatively speaking, what do these accounts see when they look at me? Do they really “read” us? Maybe yes, maybe no. We keep updating these platforms, but there is no real reciprocity. They silently track our habits, our interests, our routines, and even our plans. We may not open up so easily to people, yet we are completely open on these platforms.

With every update, we are publishing pieces of our lives. That’s what makes them “social”—not in a human way, but in a technological one. These accounts don’t have hearts to listen, and maybe that’s exactly why we feel comfortable sharing so much. There’s no judgment, no interruption, no emotion.

So where do our life stories really go? Not into a heart, because these platforms aren’t human. Yet our secrets live inside these heartless machines. We search, type, post, and scroll, slowly handing over our life history. We act as if someone is listening to our confessions, but in reality, it’s technology responding—often owned and monitored by third parties.

Perhaps technology has become our diary. And just like a diary, we pour into it our thoughts, fears, questions, and desires. What we once searched for in private pages, we now search for in these accounts.

Thou shalt be regulated

Do you know, according to wikipedia there are around 26 regulatory bodies in India catering to different segments right from film certification to banking sector. Ultimate aim of regulations is about ensuring fair play among the service providers so that interest of the subscribers is protected from deceptions of errant players.

Utmost, common man is exposed to traffic regulators who help is flow of vehicular moments. These regulations or regulatory authorities are governed by the democratic principles and policies of the government and apply to concerned group without any bias w.r.t. religious or political affinity. These are normal behavior of  regulatory authority.

Now let us understand how this concept of regulations which was initially conceived for systematizing a disorderly entity has slowly been developed into tool for ensuring that governing authority exercises a kind of control over the subjects. Latestly there has been hue and cry by certain sections of society that social media sites are unregulated and therefore posts which doesn't comply with the authority of ruling government appear from various account holders.

Every social media sites have their own regulations under which user is constrained to act upon to maintain healthy atmosphere. Now the government wishes to add an extra layer of regulations so that the sovereignty of the country is safeguarded from attackers.

Difference between social media site regulating your post and a government regulating your post is that social media site regulate you for the maintaining a basic human decorum such as barring you from posting pornographic content or the content that has fake information and so on. But when government pokes its nose they can influence your opinion about the functioning of the government. In short your opinion is either monitored or regulated or both.