Social media becoming double-edged sword

The online hate campaign targeting people from the northeast has put the spotlight on the power of the social media network in India, which counts more than 60 million users, and how this burgeoning community can be manipulated for insidious propaganda.

The unprecedented exodus of people from the northeast, abetted by hate messages, has also opened the debate about issues related to internet freedom and content regulation. India, which is looking into the alleged role of Pakistan-based elements in using morphed images on internet, has blocked over 250 websites for orchestrating the online campaign of hatred.

The last two years have seen an explosion of social media in the country with overwhelmingly young users. According to a report by iCRossing, nearly 36 million people in the country use Facebook. Of these, nearly 50 percent users are aged below 50. Estimates for 2012 posted on the India pages of various network sites show that microblogging site Twitter and LinkedIn have nearly 15 million users each in India.

This mushrooming is a double-edged sword. Social media has created a vibrant online community and widened public discourse, allowing a platform for activists with a thousand causes.

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The wide spectrum of subscribers' database which cuts social and language divides - with Facebook using Hindi as one its languages - has the potential to make the networks national security risk.

Not every user is discerning and the fact that there are no entry barriers makes the sites porous. Anyone can log in.

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Cyberbullying: 1 in 2 victims suffer from the distribution of embarrassing photos and videos

Embarrassing personal photos and videos circulating in the Internet: researchers at Bielefeld University have discovered that young people who fall victim to cyberbullying or cyber harassment suffer most when fellow pupils make them objects of ridicule by distributing photographic material. According to an online survey published on Thursday 19 July, about half of the victims feel very stressed or severely stressed by this type of behaviour. 1,881 schoolchildren living in Germany took part in the survey conducted by the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG) and commented on their experiences with cyberbullying as a victim, offender or witness........ 


Cyberbullying is the term used for attacks by one or more persons through the Internet or by mobile phone - where Facebook or an instant messenger, for instance, are used to denigrate or humiliate someone or harm their social relationships.............. 



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Boy held for posting slanderous message about teachers

A class XII boy student in Madurai has been arrested for allegedly posting photographs of two women teachers with some slanderous comment on a social networking site.

The 18-year old boy had been pulled up by the teachers after they saw him chatting with a girl student in the school campus during working hours.

Angered by this, the student posted the photos of the teachers with allegedly calumnious messages on the networking site. He had also provided their e-mail IDs in that post...........


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सावधान! फेसबुक पर चैटिंग से कंप्‍यूटर को खतरा

अगर आप फेसबुक पर चैटिंग करते हैं तो जरा सावधान हो जाइये। एक नया कंप्यूटर वायरस फेसबुक चैट मैसेंजर के जरिए फैल रहा है। यह वॉयरस आपके कंप्यूटर के एंटी वायरस पर हमला कर उसे निष्क्रिय कर देता है और फिर आपके दोस्तों को अपने आप लिंक भी भेज देता है। इंटरनेट सिक्‍योरिटी एक्सपर्ट्स ग्रुप ट्रेंड माइक्रो ने steckt.Evl नाम का यह नया वायरस खोजा है..........

ट्रेंड माइक्रो ने बताया कि यह वॉयरस अभी फेसबुक जैसी सोशल नेटवर्किंग वेबसाइटों की इंस्टेंट मैसेजिंग एप्लीकेशन के जरिए फैल रहा है। यह एक लिंक के रूप में आता है और क्लिक करते ही अपनी कॉपी डाउनलोड कर लेता है। एंटी वॉयरस को निष्क्रिय करते ही यह कंप्यूटर में अपने आप अन्य नुकसानदेह सॉफ्टवेयर डाऊनलोड कर लेता है। यही नहीं यह उन एप्लीकेशन की फाइलों को भी डिलीट कर देता है जिन्हें इसने निष्क्रिय किया होता है। इस वॉयरस के जरिए इंटरनेट पर आपको कंप्यूटर का दुरुपयोग किया जा सकता है और कंप्यूटर में सेव की गई निजी जानकारियों को भी चुराया जा सकता है............

 

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Jilted lover takes cyber revenge

Rejected by the girl he loved since his school days, a final year LLB student created her fake profile on Facebook and uploaded obscene pictures of an unknown woman on the website. Two months after the girl lodged a police complaint, the crime branch has finally managed to nab the youth.

The victim, daughter of an east Delhi businessman, and the accused, Shubham Kansal (22), had been classmates at school. After school, the two lost touch but Kansal rediscovered the girl on Facebook. He proposed a long-term relationship with the 21-year-old but she declined. Swearing vengeance, Kansal took months to plot his revenge. He created a fake Facebook profile in the girl's name and posted her personal information on it..........

Kansal disclosed that he devised the plan after watching a movie in February when all his efforts to re-establish contact with the girl failed...........

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Abused on Facebook, traffic cops clueless on culprit

Chandigarh: 


Even after getting abused publicly on the Traffic police’s Facebook page for over two months; the Chandigarh Police has yet not been able to find the person responsible for it.

The failure is shocking considering that the police has a full-fledged Cyber Crime Investigation Cell functional under the banner of Crime Branch - the city police’s premier investigating wing.

Chandigarh police claim that they are investigating to check the credentials of the user who had been using “unparliamentary and abusive language” on the Facebook page.

Deputy Inspector General of police Chandigarh, Alok Kumar said, “We are examining the matter so that legal action can be initiated against the user.”

A second rung police officer said that the user, now under the police scanner, has been operating his Facebook account with various names for the last few months.

“He would first upload the unparliamentary language on the Facebook page and also abuse the police on some other occasions. He would later delete those posts,” the officer said.

The Facebook page of the Chandigarh Traffic Police was launched by Inspector General of Police Pradeep Kumar Srivastava, on June 4 with an objective to discipline the traffic violators. It was also supposed to be more interactive as netizens would frequently post traffic violations and suggestions about traffic on the page.

After the page was launched, the Chandigarh traffic police has issued nearly one thousand challan slips against violators whose pictures of ‘evident traffic violations’ were uploaded on the page by the netizens.

“But there is this one user who has been creating fuss one way or the other by using unparliamentary language. He would deleting these posts later. And he would even challenge the police saying they cannot act against him. We have compiled a detailed report about his posts,” the police officer said.

“We were looking into the case and investigating the credentials of the user whether the user was using a fake name or not,” said the officer.

Police said that user had even been befriending those net users who uploaded pictures of violation on the page. “But this user would later post their name and other details on the page,” the police officer said.

The police officer said that they will not allow any one to use the Facebook page of Chandigarh Traffic Police as a platform hurl abuses to anyone.

Police sources said that the Cyber Crime cell has also started an investigation to trace the user.

Source: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/abused-on-facebook-traffic-cops-clueless-on-culprit/842768/0
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