With
the recent visit of the Indian PM’s visit to the United States raised a lot of
public questionnaires. The issue heated up when the Prime Minister Narendra
Modi visited the Facebook & Google headquarters situated in the Silicon
Valley at California.
Mark
Zuckerberg, the CEO & founder of Facebook initiated an online application
which enabled users worldwide to change their profile pictures with a
transparent tricolour layer with insights from the logo of the Digital India
campaign to show support to this government of India initiative.
Having
a number of Indian users who changed their profile pictures, opinion makers
from the media industry criticized Facebook’s such an initiative. A recent
headline on an online Journal that reads “Your Facebook Tricolour Profile
Picture Doesn’t Support Digital India; Here’s The Ugly Truth” was shared by
many of the Indian users overnight after a number of profile pictures were being
constantly changed. This sudden remorse aroused in the public about their
attempts to change their profile pictures is a senseless false claim.
In
a recent media declaration, Facebook’s spokesperson stated that “There is absolutely no connection between
updating your profile picture for digital India and Internet.org. An engineer
mistakenly used the words “Internet.org profile picture” as a shorthand name he
chose for part of the code. But this product in no way connects to or registers
support for Internet.org. We are changing the code today to eliminate any
confusion.”
Because of the false claims, a number of users restricted
themselves from using this creative application over their profile pictures.
Moreover, without having any idea about the concepts of the wide-spread
Internet.Org’s controversy, Indian youths flooded their posts with their stupid
ideas and views about it. Moreover, Internet.Org being an international agenda
in the digital world is still a hot topic; however the most astonishing fact is
that a majority of youths in India are still unaware of the Government’s
Digital India Campaign. The ones who bet to have some idea of it are
celebrating contentment with half knowledge. The ‘worth appraisal’
technological upbringing of India is the basic motto of the Digital India
Campaign. It not only constrains to free internet access across the country but
also relates widely to ‘technological advancements’ which many of us are not
even bothered of. What we understand is to avail free WiFi across major public
places in India is just a mere part of the initiative.
Facebook’s Internet.Org which is a controversial platform and
seemingly a ‘philanthropic’ idea is basically deriving entrepreneurship through
providing internet accessibility for free across backward regions of major
developing countries including India. This mass project is being criticized
generally for business and commercial disagreements between companies and
countries and therefore it has been considered controversial.
Now the question that arises in the minds is that is the youth of
this country still being stereotype? A considerable number of people create
unnecessary hype over social platforms without reading and understanding the
facts behind a particular issue. If this sort of a negligent audience is
present, initiatives like the Digital India or even Internet.Org shall never be
able to home itself in the country. Same goes with the rest of the initiatives
of the government which is being overlooked by us just because we tend to believe
what people say rather than self-analysing things before coming to any
conclusion.
However, even if the rumour about the change in the profile
pictures would directly make Indians sign petitions to accept Internet.Org
would have been true; sensible ones must understand that in any Judiciary
system, such online petitions are not valid.
Moreover, Facebook is not the sole owner of the idea and therefore it
has no such authority to initiate such a movement secretly. Therefore even if
it had been true, there was no harm in adding a transparent layer of the
tricolour on the profile pictures because nevertheless, it would have shown to
the world how united we stand at something good being done in the favour of the
country in India.
But, since the Indian subcontinent dwells such brilliant fools in
its care, who would use their common senses everywhere to unnecessarily prove
their clever wit, but shall never go into the depths of such critical blames
and would follow the crowd being a typical stereotype. The youth of this
country boasts upon being 65% in the National Census of 2015, but poor they do
not understand their 65% only has 15% of useful lot and rest are hindrance to
the country’s development. Bitter but true!
