Social media can, and must be used positively
Since the advent of the Internet, the world has become a global community.
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This is because through the worldwide web, otherwise known as (www), information is passed on and received almost instantaneously or in real time.
People in different countries on different continents are able to communicate with one another through social media platforms such as Skype, Pinterest, Instagram, Foursquare, Tango, WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Call Up, Imo and many other applications and platforms.
Through the social media platform people have been able to connect easily with long-lost acquaintances, family members, friends and admirers.
However, a section of society has turned the various social platforms into sites of nudity, vulgarity and obscenity where peeved or jilted lovers post pornographic photos of their lovers, with the intent to disgrace them.
Others also use the platforms for Internet fraud, popularly referred to as ‘Sakawa’, and dupe unsuspecting people.
It is in the midst of all these anti-social activities that the Daily Graphic finds it heart-warming that a group of individuals has been able to raise about GH¢23,000 for a good cause, using the same social media platform.
The DGG, a group of friends on Facebook, does not only deserve commendation but also emulation for using Facebook to solve a problem of society by renovating the Apagya R/C Primary School in the Adansi South District in the Ashanti Region.
The members of the group were able to perform this feat by linking up with other friends in Canada, the United Kingdom, Mali, Germany, the United States of America and Nigeria to raise funds to renovate the school, with the help of the indigenes.
We believe that is the way to go in the use of the powerful social media platforms that are available to all people who have access to mobile phones and the Internet.
It is time we, as a people, stopped looking up to the government to provide all our needs, even when we have the power to mobilise forces and resources to provide them.
As the DGG group has shown, it is possible to contribute to and improve society through the mobilising power of social media.
There are many more schools, hospitals, roads, other infrastructure, as well as social issues and the disadvantaged, begging for the attention of society.
The Daily Graphic believes that Ghana can have many positive things done, and within a short period, if we all learn from the example of the DGG group.
Let us all use the various social media platforms positively to make our society a better place to live in.