Beyond selfies and status updates; West Bengal to host second round of Adibasi Facebook meet

By Newsgram Staff Writer

The world of social media is not just selfies and pompous statuses. It's much more than that. The second installment of ' Kolkata Adibasi Facebook Meet' to be held at the Victoria Memorial Hall grounds is an example.

Around 642 Facebook users belonging to the ' educated and privileged' section of West Bengal's adivasi community have been invited for the event. The meet aims to increase unity in the community and hold positive discussion on how to harness social media for tribal development.

"We are trying to translate the virtual friendship into real bonding so that this platform can be used to promote development and unity among the tribal members," Pradip Kumar Hansda, one of the organizers, told a news agency.

He said that the social media platform is the perfect place for the better off members to take up problems facing their community and provide solutions.

"Most of the people are from Bengal tribes such as Santals and their clans like Murmu, Soren etc. We have members of the tribe from neighbouring states of Odisha and Bihar as well. There are tribes from other parts of India too. We have started with Bengal and we want to take it to the national level," Hansda said.