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Public expression or intrusion?

New Delhi Jan. 18:

The death of Sunanda Pushkar, 52, wife of Union HRD Minister Shashi Tharoor, and the public manner in which the marital controversies that embroiled the couple played out on social networking sites, have once again put social media under scrutiny.

Some time ago, actor Shah Rukh Khan reportedly quit Twitter on account of abusive comments but rejoined later. The Congress party, too, sought regulation of social media during the recent Assembly elections.

Love it or hate it, you cant ignore it.

Tragic tweets

Film-maker and author Pritish Nandy, an avid Twitter user, feels its just another platform for communicating and for people to speak their minds. Sometimes they over-react, are impolite and nasty; but thats the way it is. It is a platform we share with someone like Sachin Tendulkar and Amitabh Bachchan and communicate with them directly.

Nandy says Pushkars death and her tragic tweets show how closely Twitter touches our lives today.

Some social media users say the medium becomes as intrusive as one wants it to be. After all, the choice of how much to reveal rests with an individual.

Film-maker Mahesh Bhatt, however, feels the social media scene is spinning out of control and the existing law is incapable of dealing with this very modern form of incitement. Social media encourages cowards and haters to spout the most ugly things that they would never dare to say in real life to people face to face. Social media has become a battleground, he tweeted on Saturday.

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How much is too much on social media?