Ruthvik Reddy says that it is important to not make the number of followers an obsession in your life

Social media has a lot of positive as well as negative sides, says Ruthvik Reddy. The actor, who will be making his acting debut with National Award winner Arun Shankar’s new single titled Hum, says that while social media is a great way for actors to connect with their fans and vice versa, it also provides a platform for people to troll public figures. “There is no doubt that social media has revolutionized everyone’s lives in this era. Social media has wiped the distance between a star and fan. Fans can have direct access to the star that they like. Not just follow actors, people can have direct interactions with them as well. But social media also gives the power to people, who follow actors, to say negative things about them in public. Vicious trolling by insensitive people has become an extremely common thing today and has the power to disturb the peace of mind and the confidence of actors,” he says.

He adds, “Everything has its positives and negatives, which cannot be ignored. However, one has to maintain a balance and use it in the right way. It is not fake but a brilliant tool to help you shape your career and profession provided we respect the etiquettes.” However, Ruthvik does add that actors need to be careful while posting stuff as they have the ability to influence many people. “Actors have to be more cautious in their posts as they are always in the limelight. People not only watch but also tend to follow and inculcate the things promoted by actors. This gives a great power in the hands of actors to influence a large number of people. But we need to remember that with great power comes great responsibility. It depends on actors as to how and what kind of information they want to put across to their followers. It could be just a regular style trend of the season or a deeply-impacting social message that they strongly believe in. The moment an actor tries to do things on social media just to please their followers, they have lost the battle,” he says.