Bhakta Kavi Narsinh Mehta University has organized the third Youth Festival AVSAR
2019 on 20th and 21st September 2019 at J S Godhani Mahila Arts and
Commerce College Junagadh.
I have participated
in Debate with Neel Maher from Department of Life Science. We have started
preparation before fifteen days ago. We have prepared for topics i.e. Social
Media, Article 370 and 35A, Traffic rules in India, Demonetization, etc. Before
24 hours of competition, final topics were declared on www.bknmu.edu.in. We
were given three topics and we were asked to choose one. It became very easy
for us as all the topics were the same which we have prepared. We have selected
"Advantages and disadvantages disadvantages of using social media".
We have discussed our points on Social Media again and again. We both were
fully confident for competition.
On 20th September, we met in Youth Festival, and on the time of registration for debate, we were informed that you both were not in this competition as your name was not registered there. We have asked them to search BKNMU department etc. but they found nothing so we called Jatin Sir our team manager and he helped us to find out our registered names. Finally we entered the class for competition. We were eagerly waiting for our turn. There were 42 pairs and total 84 participants for debate. Most of all the students have selected the same topic and that is Social Media which we have also selected. We were worried somehow that we have to repeat the same because all will speak on the same topic then they will cover our points and no one will be interested in our discussion at last. But fortunately no one could include our points in their discussion, so we were safe.
Actually the room was small and the sound of mike was unbearable for us, we were tired, suffering from headache and awaiting for our turn. Though it came last so I thought that wow no one could copy our content otherwise it was possible that others could make their content better after listening to us. All have discussed Social Media keeping in mind Whatsapp, Facebook Twitter and Instagram and Tiktok only. They talked about learning through Social Media but only with Google and YouTube.
I have started my positive point from the idea that Social Media does not mean only Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tiktok it also includes Google Classroom, Nicenet, Blog, Wiki, Hangout, Zoom, Ted talk and so on for education purpose, Blood Help Gujarat app for health, 181 for women help, very good initiative of government SWAYAM from which we can learn anytime anywhere so many things from experts of various fields. If we want to learn or join courses in Universities of the world we can join edx and cousera. If we talk about cyber crime, it not the disadvantage of social media, for the solution, government has started CyberCrime Branch. So, social media is beneficial for the freedom, protection and education of female, education, health, connectivity and development of our nation through Globalization. I have given real example of our department, how we utilize social media for education.
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Negative points from Neel were also strong. He has included Cyber crime, Cyber bullying, trolling, mob lynching, cyber attack from Western culture on our ancient culture, health issues, increased Pollution caused by technology and social media, harmful radiations, and so on. He has given real life examples and statistical analysis too.
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