Netizens launch e-mission for healthy use of social media

Recently, an Engineering student in West Godavari district had uploaded a suicide note on his facebook account before jumping under a running train. This gruesome cases of this nature moved a group of netizens to create public awareness on use of social media for social causes. The Social Media for Society or SMS in short was floated in the city one year ago. The SMS conducted social media awareness camps in the city and in Amaravati region under the aegis of its president G Vijayprakash and secretary K Srinivas.

The SMS team conducted a few camps at the upcoming capital city Amaravati. The team interacted with the families who lost their lands in land pooling and families who are suffering without any work to do and also without getting any monetary benefits as promised by the Government who lost land completely. There was overwhelming response from the local people.

The SMS leaders strove hard to drive the point home that the social media could be used as a watch group on improvement of quality in delivery of citizen services, distribution of entitlements and misuse of funds in implementing government-sponsored programmes. Vijayaprakash and Srinivasa Rao expressed anguish that the media platforms are getting either trivialised with posts of frivolous contents or misused for committing crimes and women abuse.

The SMS showcased a video clip posted on a media platform on the Krishna Pushkaralu shot on promotion of cleanliness and hygiene which caught the attention of CM Chandrababu Naidu, as a model for the social media to replicate. The SMS also highlighted problems of DWCRA members. The initiative keeps drawing good response from the netizens across. Subsequently, a committee was formed with a logo on the occasion of the anniversary celebrations.