Facebook ban: Gurgaon Police deactivates 1200 school kids’ accounts

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, Aug 27, 2014: The police in Gurgaon has a unique task at hand keep school students up to class 10th away from Facebook and make them aware of cyber crimes. The staff and students of 23 schools in the Cyber City are cooperating with the police on this.

The local police say that the students get distracted because of Facebook and they unknowingly may fall into trouble because of lack of awareness on cyber crime. In six days, the police have helped deactivate more than 1200 accounts of students.

Earlier, a survey conducted by a private research firm from Delhi on 1000 kids in 12 schools found that the performance of students without a Facebook account was 15-20 per cent better than the students who did not have social media accounts.

Schools in DLF, Sushant Lok, Sohna Road, Sector 56, Sector 43, Old Gurgaon are cooperating with the police on this drive of cyber safety.

DPS, Lotus Valley, Ajanta Public School, Shiv Naeer, Sri Ram, Blue Bells, CCA schools are among the 23 schools. The police have also included cyber expert Rakshit Tandon to help alert the students. The kids and their guardians both are made aware about cyber crime and the punishments associated with it in this drive.

School principals too have given strict orders to keep their kids away from social sites.

Police Commissioner Alok Mittal said: "Social sites are necessary, but the kids end up doing wrong things there. This drive to make them aware of the dangers."

Courtesy: Indiatoday