Black and White: How to use the weapon called social media?

A few years ago, an eleven-year-old girl named Rebecca from the state of Florida, USA, took her life due to cyberbullying by her classmates. If Rebecca would post a picture of herself on social media, perverted classmates would harass her by commenting on Facebook saying, 'You are ugly, remove your photo from Facebook, you look so dumb in this photo. Have you ever looked in the mirror at how dirty you look?' One of Rebecca's mean classmates had taken her down multiple times on Facebook, leaving Rebecca frustrated. She committed suicide when her classmates' harassment on social media became unbearable. Trisha Prabhu, a thirteen-year-old student of Indian origin living in Chicago, came home from school that day to read a newspaper report about Rebecca's suicide and was shocked. It occurred to him that this is very bad. An innocent girl had to cut her life short due to harassment on social media! Trisha began researching the dangers of cyberbullying. He realized that a large number of teenagers fall victim to cyberbullying. Many of these teenagers attempt suicide or commit suicide, many fall into depression. During her research, Trisha found that fifty-two percent of teenagers who use social media in America have been victims of cyberbullying at some point. And the maximum number of those who download them on social media are teenagers. Apart from this, he got to know many shocking things about the teenagers who are victims of cyberbullying and also about the teenagers who are doing cyberbullying. Trisha wondered what could be done to prevent cyberbullying, i.e. teenagers putting down, harassing or humiliating others on social media, making them feel inferior. He came up with the idea of ​​creating a mobile app and at the age of 14 he created a mobile app called 'Re-Think'. The app received an unexpected response. The 'Re-Think' app lets teenagers on their mobiles type in certain words to put down or insult someone and the words flash on their screen prompting them to 'Re-Think About Your Comment.' It means 'rethink your comment.' The app makes different suggestions. Like 'Your comment will hurt someone's feelings', 'Your comment is insulting to someone', 'Rethink your use of profanity.' Due to Trisha's app, after the notification flashed on the mobile phone screen of the teenagers, the teenagers who are going to make bad or insulting comments can think to delete the bad or insulting words or insults from their comments, can avoid making such comments that even after that notification, many naughty teenagers will do it. Ignore it and move on. A survey about Re-Think revealed that 93 percent of those who used the 'Re-Think' app would refrain from making insulting, derogatory or other offensive comments due to a warning flashed on the mobile phone screen. . The mobile app developed by Trisha was adopted by thousands of schools in the world within the first two years. Only in the US state of Michigan, Trisha's mobile app was installed in the mobile phones of thirteen lakh students. Trisha has also received many awards at a young age for creating this unique app. Several American newspapers and TV channels interviewed Trisha and aired programs about her mobile app, which turns teenagers towards positivity. In 2021, his name was included in the 'Forbes' 'Thirty Under Thirty' list by the world famous magazine 'Forbes'. He founded a company called 'Re-Think' and became its CEO. became He received an investment of one hundred thousand dollars at the age of 14. Then in the eighth season of Shark Tank in 2020, he received a three hundred thousand dollar investment from the Elevate Prize Foundation to expand the scope of his company. Today, Trisha Prabhu's company has become five million dollars (42 crore rupees in Indian currency). Now 23-year-old Trisha has graduated from Harvard University and is researching 'Social Sciences or Internet' at UK's Oxford University. At just 14 years of age, Trisha envisioned and implemented millions of students around the world to turn to positivity (and stop them from turning to negativity). Instead of using social media in an anti-social way, one should take a cue from Trisha Prabhu's life. It is not necessary that everyone like Trisha Prabhu reaches the international level and makes good use of social media. One can be helpful to people even at their own level. Sometimes I will write a separate article about such cases, but for now I will end the article with a word about the proper use of social media. During the festival of Diwali, Priyanka Patel, a social media influencer turned actress from Jamnagar, helped many individuals by taking a fun initiative. He reached out to his millions of followers on social media who are running a small business, trying to make ends meet financially, or supporting a family, but don't have the money to market their business. . It should be prudent to understand how to use social media. Social media is like nuclear energy. Just as cities can be set on fire with nuclear energy and cities can also be destroyed by making nuclear bombs. We have to decide whether we use social media to brighten someone's life or to destroy someone's life (and our own).