Saturday, May 2, 2015

Nepal Earthquake: 7 Things On/About Social Media That Went Viral



Facebook's Nepal Earthquake Support Story collects billions for Nepal. 
             Since Nepal sheds tears at this moment with numerous crumbles and disastrous notch of nature, Social Media has become a platform for HELP. Those media have raised and appealed for help. They leave no stone unturned to help Nepal. Some of them unfold here.  

1. Facebook Safety Check:  

              This green- colored fascinating app enables you to mark safe whereas you let it know to the world. It obviously helped millions of fellow Nepalese to cater their message of safety to their near and dear ones all over the globe. 
Facebook Safety Check Application by Facebook 

 Mark Zuckerberg updates about Facebook safety Check ensuring you to stay 'OKAY.' 
            

 It doesn't allow you to check or mark yourself safe but it shows the conditions of your friends too. I wish every one would get green checked box with SAFE. 

2. Facebook brings BILLIONS: 

             With a very heart rendering message as crafted a story entitled Nepal Earthquake Support by Facebook brought billions to Nepal as the fund for relief and rescue. In collaboration with International Medical Corps, Facebook is bringing that hope for Nepal.

Mark Zuckerberg informs about his help for Nepal with his update.


            Facebook further writes, "Moving forward, your gift will help teams to support survivors, restore healthcare and help Nepal rebuild." Ekantipur online informs, "Social media platform Facebook has raised more than $10 million (Rs 1.2 billion) within two days for supporting earthquake-torn Nepal." 

3. Google Person Finder: 

              Google.org's Google Crisis Response Division's project Google Person Finder application  helps tracking lost persons in disasters. 




             Google further explains about the application, "Google Person Finder is a web application that allows individuals to post and search for the status of relatives or friends affected by a disaster. The program also lets press agencies, non-governmental agencies and others contribute to the database and receive updates by using the Person Finder API based on the PFIF open standard." 

This application runs in about 40 languages. 

4. A husky but beautiful Prays for Nepal: 

              15 hours ago a Nepali origin YouTube artist (Singer/Song writer) Sajjan Raj Vaidya sang for Nepal with his pray and appeal for Earthquake victims in Nepal.

Sajjan featuring One Sun "Pray for Nepal" means a lot for Nepal.  


              While sharing his video on social media, he comments, "You are not alone, we are with you. Spread the word, every penny counts. It matters not how the money gets there, it has to get there. Its the least we can do." (Sajjan on Facebook) 

5. Gaurav Dagaonkar: The Sun Will Rise Again, a song for Nepal 

Gaurav Dagaonkar, a singer-songwriter from India, who had covered 'Jaalma Filili' a recent of kollywood's 'Resham Filili', a movie; sings this time for earthquake victims of Nepal entitled "The sun will rise again-a song for Nepal"


While sharing this song on YouTube, Dagaonkar remarks "I may not be a Nepali, but right now my heart beats for my neighboring country. I wish to so everything in my capacity to help my brothers ans sisters in Nepal. 

6. Todos Con Nepal: 

Finally, you must have heard about it :) 



Todos Con Nepal Pray for Nepal--Stay Strong because we will bounce back. 

7. These photographs of Dharahara: 

                Right after the collapse of symbolic tower "Dharahara", most of people are struck with shock. It used to stand like a panoptic tower or more often a tower to observe valley whereas it was gradually being overshadowed with other skyscrapers. 




            Though everyone felt really pathetic about the collapse of dharahara, but some have different views as well. 

              A columnist Pranaya SJB Rana in The Kathmandu Post opines in his article titled 'The image that stays', "I do not mourn as much the collapse of the Dharahara, that phallic tower once jutting from the ground like a defiant middle finger to its surroundings; it was always ugly."  

Stay Strong Nepal
With love,
Gaurav.