A study of impact of social media on Indian society

Indians use internet for various purposes such as surfing, gathering information, shopping mailing, chatting and on social media. Now-a-days due to significant changes in internet culture there is an explosion of social networking websites and users of the same are expanding at never before rate. Earlier there were very minimum web portals who offered social networking services amongst which orkut was the most famous. After orkut’s popularity many other jumped into this sector of internet and became the game changer of the internet world. This includes Faceboob, Twitter, Instagram, Linkedin, Youtube, Pinterest and the list is endless. These social media portals have affected the Indian society on a larger scale. There is both positive and negative impact of it on the Indian Soiety. Thus this paper covers the overall impact of social media websites on Indian society.