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Venkatesh Aravindh1, S.Sree Govind Baratwaj2  \n1.Ph.D. Research Scholar, Dept of Journalism & Mass Communication, Periyar University, Salem, TN, India. [Email-rvenkatesharavindh@gmail.com](Email-rvenkatesharavindh@gmail.com)  \n2.Ph.D. Research Scholar, Dept of Journalism & Mass Communication, Periyar University, Salem, TN, India. [Email-baratwazamj@gmail.com](Email-baratwazamj@gmail.com)  \nAbstract: Whatsapp is an instant cross platform messaging application , it is basically used for messaging through mobile phones , it can only be used through mobile phones and its has been distinctly designed and marketed for Smartphone , it is generally accessed in almost all type of modern smart phones which includes, Android phones ,Blackberries, Windows Phone devices ,iPhones, etc. Whatsapp is much widely used in Android based smart phones comparatively to other smart phones. It is actually a refined and contemporary text messaging tool which is way ahead of traditional text messaging applications and scarcely uses Internet to send data, which really relives people from spending money for quick sharing text message through mobiles. Whatsapp gives people a varied platform for sharing text, contact numbers, links, pictures , videos , etc which helps them in providing multiple benefits like low cost, sharing Rich media messages, confirmation of messages for sending, delivering and reading and group chatting, etc. In such aspect Whatsapp being one of the most admired and acceptable media among youngsters, the access and usage of Whatsapp among youth seems to be so random and high , where the concept of grouping and sharing particular information also seems to be notable among many. Nowadays many people are sharing many different types of contents and also sharing many things in the group , So in that aspect, it would be really improper if there is no research study in understanding how youngsters use Whatsapp to share their opinion, contents . The research intensely analyze on the purpose and utilization factors of Whatsapp by college students in Salem district.  \nKey Words: Social media, youngsters, Whatsapp, purpose, utilization.  \nI. INTRODUCTION:  \n1.1 Social Media :  \nDaniel Trottier and Christian Fuchs in their Research paper titled Theorising Social Media,  \nPolitics and the State, explains that Michael Mandiberg argues that the notion of 'social media' has been associated with multiple concepts: \"the corporate media favourite 'user-generated content,' Henry Jenkins' mediaindustries-focused 'convergence culture,' Jay Rosen's 'the people formerly known as the audience,' the politically infused 'participatory media,' Yochai Benkler's process-oriented 'peer-production,' and Tim O'Reilly's computerprogramming-oriented 'Web 2.0'\" (Mandiberg 2012, 2) . The question of if and how social the web is or hasbecome depends on a profoundly social theoretical question: what does it mean to be social? Are human beings always social or only if they interact with others? In sociological theory, there are different concepts of the social, such as Émile Durkheim's social facts, Max Weber's social action, Karl Marx's notion of collaborative work (also employed in the concept of computer-supported collaborative work—CSCW) or Ferdinand Tönnies'notion of community (for adetailed discussion, see Fuchs 2014d) . Depending on which concept of sociality one employs, one gets different answers to the questions of whether the web is social and whether sociality is a new quality of the web. Community aspects of the web have certainly not started with Facebook, which was founded in 2004 but was already described as characteristic of 1980s bulletin board systems, like The WELL, that he characterises as virtual communities (Rheingold 2000) . Col","cbCaicinCcjK1v1h","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicinCcjK1v1h","pdf",751694,11,"English","# Abstract\n# I. 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