Indian Army issued new guidelines: Now military personnel will not be able to post on Instagram

New Delhi, 25 December. The Indian Army has issued new guidelines for its soldiers on the use of social media apps. It clarifies how military personnel can use social media apps.

Use of Instagram only for information viewing and monitoring

According to the guidelines of the Indian Army, apps like Instagram can now be used only for viewing and monitoring information. Young people cannot comment or share their opinions on Instagram. At the same time, sharing of general and non-sensitive information has been allowed on apps like Skype, WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal.

Conditional exemption for use of Skype, WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal

But such information can be shared only with identified people. It will be the responsibility of the user to correctly identify someone and send the information. Apart from this, platforms like YouTube, X, Quora and Instagram can be viewed only to get information or learn. One’s own content can never be uploaded on these platforms.

Use LinkedIn only for job/employee related information.

Whereas LinkedIn can be used only for uploading resume or obtaining job/employee related information. Army officials say that this step has been taken to ensure the safety of soldiers and protection of sensitive information.