This is a research paper which has been presented by Sumit Kumar Pandey, Research Scholar of Department of journalism and mass communication Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith in national seminar on 'Development, Globalization, and Media' organized by Department of journalism & mass communication BHU on 30 October 2017.

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 Thispaper discusses theimpactofthevirtualworldonyouthindecisionmakingabilitydevelopmentandtheir leadershipdevelopment.This researchpaper findoutthat virtualworldreallyenhancesthecapabilityofyouthto
leadanyeventsuccessfullyornotandhowtheybehaveonanyfanaticandprovocativecontentprovidedinavirtualworld.Thisisthe21stcenturyanditis anafootageandeveryoneespeciallyyoutharebusyonvirtual
world,spendingmuchmoretimeonFacebook,Whatsapp,Instagramandmanyother socialnetworkingsites.Theythinkthattheycanchangethewholeworldfromtheir homeonsocialmedia.Theythinkthattheycancreate
a revolutionfromsocialmedia.Today’serahasbecomeverysensitiveduetothesocialmedia.Today,evenafrenziedandprovocativecontent canhitthesocialmediaandthesecontentscanspoiltheenvironmentof thecity
aswellasawholecountry.Soitbecomesnecessarytofindouthowyouthreactsonthese inflammatorymaterialsandwhatdecisiontheytake andwhatleadershipabilitytheyhave,itisimportant.The researchpaper isan
attempttofindoutthesamethings.This researchcarriedout throughsurveymethodandpurposivesamplingmethodinwhichresearcherpickedoutthesample fromUGandPGstudentsof MGKVP Universitywhoactiveon
socialmedia.Fromeachclass,10%studentshavebeentakenas thesamplefor thesurvey.Data hasbeencollectedthroughquestionnaireandanalyzedthroughsimplestatistics.
 Keywords: Virtualworlds;youth; youthleadershipanddecision-makingability;development; 21stcentury; SocialMedia;Facebook;

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This statistics shows the number of social media users worldwide from 2010 to 2016 with
projections until 2021. In 2019, it is estimated that there will be around 2.77 billion social
media users around the globe, up from 2.46 billion in 2017.

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This chart illustrates the projected numbers of social network in 2017 and 2022 in selected
countries. Statista projects that close to 370.77 million Indian internet users will access
social networks in 2022, up from 196.02 million social network users in 2017.

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This statistics provides information on the most popular networks worldwide as of August
2017, ranked by number of active accounts. Market leader Facebook was the first social
network to surpass 1 billion registered accounts and currently sits at 2.05 billion monthly
active users.

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The statistics shows the leading countries ranked according to their number of Facebook
users as of July 2017. India claimed the first place with 241 million users, ahead of
seconed-ranked United States with 240 million Facebook users. Facebook is the most
popular social network world wide, with a global usage penetration of 22.9 percents.

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 Most of the 10(55.55%) youth students become so much aggressive when anyone post or say
anything against them on Facebook. In which UG students are more aggressive than PG
students. Most of the 15(83.33%) youth students become so sensitive and behave very
decently when anyone post or say anything to provoke cast feelings on Facebook even they
are UG students or PG students. Most of the 8(44.44%) youth students become so sensitive
and behave very decently when anyone post or say anything to provoke religious sentiments
on Facebook. In which UG students show more decent behavior than PG students
 Most of the 8(44.44%) youth students ignore any political propaganda related post on
Facebook. And 5(27.78%) youth students advise people to stay away from such posts made
on Facebook. Most of the 17(94.94%) youth students don't trust very quickly on any attractive
news or information related post on Facebook. They firstly investigate about such types of
news or posts, then believe in it.
 Only 5(27.78%) youth students have led any social movement on Facebook. Most of the
13(72.22%) youth students have never led a social movement on Facebook. The level of
leading any social movement is less in UG students than PG students. Only 3(16.67%) youth
students have ever organized any event or made any page on Facebook to lead any social
movement. The level of leading any social movement through organizing an event or making
any page on Facebook is less in UG students than PG students.

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 Most of the youth become very aggressive when anyone post against them but
from the research, it shows that as the level of maturity increases among the youth,
their aggression decreases and they make a far wiser decision. When anyone post
to provoke cast and religious feelings they become very sensitive and behave very
decently and try to make understand very decently the people who post such types
of posts on Facebook. Youth are taking a good decision on any political
propaganda related post. Most of the youth ignore it and advise people to stay
away from these types of posts. Most of the youth students don't easily trust on any
attractive news or information, firstly they investigate it and then believe in it.
Totally it is proved that youth have much better decision-making ability in the
virtual world and the development level of their decision-making ability is so good.
Thus constructed Hypotheses 1 and 2 both are proved true. But this study also
shows that most of the youth students never led any social movements through
making any page or organizing any event on Facebook. Thus Hypothesis 3 is
proved wrong.
 The overall conclusion is that youth decision making ability development level is
much better in the virtual world but the leadership development level is not so
good, it is so poor.

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 Youth is the power of any Nation and it is a privilege of India that it has a
major population of youth. It has been seen that most of the developed
countries have less youth population. So if India has a major youth
population then the government should care about their leadership ability
and should work on it. Because if youth will lead, the country would also
lead the whole world. Everybody knows that social media is very strongest
communication tool in the present era but it is a weapon too. So
government should organize such types of digital programs in the virtual
world that can increase the level of leadership ability in them on social
media. Since youth is a resource, the government should use their energy
to lead many social movements in the virtual world which can benefit the
country.

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