At the same time as the pioneers of social networking sites were interacting with this painful news at the beginning of the year, a video of a teacher dancing on a boat trip in the Nile for teachers spread, causing social problems for her, which prompted her to submit her resignation, which raises questions about the limits of The role of social networking sites and the sometimes devastating effects of their misuse.
Sawsan Fayed, a professor of political psychology at the National Center for Social and Criminal Sciences, considered the Bassant incident as a “dangerous alarm bell” and an indicator that “must be examined, analyzed and understanding what is happening,” noting at the same time that the solution is not prevention.
She stressed that the positive or negative impact of the various publications depends in advance on the qualification to practice interaction by default on social networking sites, through the implementation of his mind and selection, so that he does not take or transmit information until after verifying and rooting it, noting that not taking care of this matter will lead to Serious negative effects.
awareness and rehabilitation
Fayed told Al-Hurra: “This matter requires rehabilitation and that there be culture, awareness and awareness of how to deal with social networking sites, and this unfortunately did not happen in our society.”
She explains: “Currently we see people, some of whom are teenagers holding a mobile phone, dealing randomly and without awareness and without realizing what the word might lead to, and therefore we see the spread of rumors and false information, whether religious, cultural, social, political, and even health and medical.”
The former head of the Cultural Development Fund at the Ministry of Culture, and currently a professor at the Institute of Art Criticism at the Academy of Arts, Nevin Al-Kilani, agrees with her in her interview with Al-Hurra website, where she says, “Most people do not have awareness of the danger of using social networking sites and cameras, which have become in the hands of everyone. People, even young children, are in schools, which is a breach of privacy in the first place.”
Fayed says: “Randomness and lack of awareness may result in a person’s belief in anything that spreads, which leads to unimaginable events, as we saw with the case of the girl Basant, who may seem to have seen in the eyes of the community around her that its members do not believe that these published pictures of her Fabricated, or published a video of a teacher dancing on a school trip, and this is because people are not qualified to deal with these technologies, and they have to make sure of the information, in addition to the fact that it is not permissible to publish such things, of course.
And she indicated that she had previously conducted an exploratory study in 2016 on how to use the Internet, on about 600 children in the age group 14 to 18 years, “The most important findings I have found is that the vast majority use the Internet for entertainment and access to pornographic sites, but there is no positive exploitation the Internet or social media sites through education, searching for sources and verifying information.
She says, “For example, the Egyptian government established the Knowledge Bank, but you rarely find someone seeking to use it. This needs to be directed and shed light on the positives of the Internet and communication sites, and whenever there is awareness and awareness of how to deal with these means, the effects are positive and we do not see such events.”
The video of the teacher while she was dancing during the Nile cruise spread widely, which sparked a controversy between preserving privacy, especially since she had previously won the ideal teacher award, which is not specified, but rather a volunteer with little pay, and between that she is a role model and it was not permissible She has to do it in a public place.
Al-Kilani stresses the need for there to be awareness from two sides, “first, educating and educating people on how to use social media sites, and another awareness related to behavior in public places, and that it may be public in a moment.”
And she explains that “anyone should know that if he leaves his home, he is exposed to hacking at any moment, as if he is on stage all the time, and he publishes anything on social networking sites, and that he may fall victim to misuse by some, and therefore he must also take care.” He watches his behaviour.
who is in Charge?
Fayed believes that “there is supposed to be a major cultural project that creates an atmosphere in which to confront these negative phenomena, adopted by the Ministry of Culture, under which the traditional and modern media, education and the religious institution fall.”
But she criticizes the Minister of Culture and says that she is not suitable for the work of such a project. “This project requires a mindset that has a broad strategy that includes all relevant institutions and bodies, in a way that leads to an atmosphere for everyone to breathe in their culture, from school and university students to the elderly.”
“The choice of the Minister of Culture must be very carefully, but we have not seen any cultural output that affects people, nor any strategy to take care of the awareness of the Egyptian personality and restructure it,” she added.
She added, “Unfortunately, she is not only the Minister of Culture, but most of the decision-makers do not care about human development. We do not hear, for example, from the Council of Ministers talking about facing societal problems such as high rates of divorce, addiction and Internet crimes. All we hear about trade, building roads and construction, this is important, but you You accomplish all these projects for the human being. You have to search for what is lacking in the human being himself, who lacks culture and enlightenment of his mind and an awareness of what is being hatched for him and what is happening around him, and he is able to distinguish and select.”
“Unfortunately, we have retreated in this field of education, culture and health (..) and this is due to the decline in interest in human beings.”
The former official in the Ministry of Culture, Nevin Al-Kilani, believes that Fayed’s proposal is “a very good idea in fact”, but she points out that “the media is the first responsible.”
Al-Kilani told Al-Hurra that without information, the Ministry of Culture will not be able to reach the public, but cooperation is required from everyone.
She added, “If this initiative is launched, the ministries of education, higher education and religious institutions must participate in it, and it is launched on social networking sites, especially because it is the easiest way to access information now.”
For her part, Fayed says, “I doubt that the media has become aiming to flatten issues, and contribute to spreading the trivialities of social networking sites, although we have great examples, where are the scientifically superior children and geniuses. We only see interest in art and dance only, if this is the case of the decision-makers.” Don’t be surprised that the common people are doing wrong.”
Law is the last line of defense
The government says it has passed laws on cybercrime and combating sexual harassment, and arrests suspects in such crimes.
And the Egyptian authorities arrested two people in the case of Basant’s suicide, one of whom is a student in the second grade of Al-Azhari secondary and was her colleague, and the second is a university student at Al-Azhar University, and they live in the same village in which the victim was living, which is Kafr Yaqoub, which is affiliated to the center and city of Kafr El-Zayat in Gharbia Governorate. .
A source revealed to Al-Watan newspaper that the Basant incident is not the first of its kind in the village, noting that the suspects have experience in installing and fabricating photos and videos and hacking personal accounts.
But Fayed says, “With laws in place, this happens almost every day, and this is because the law is the last line in the confrontation, and the evidence for this is the continuation of crimes. It is unreasonable to put a security man on every citizen.”
The religious institution of Al-Azhar in Egypt commented on the case of the girl Basant, saying that “blackmailing people with fake images is false and slanderous is forbidden.”
Al-Azhar International Center for Electronic Fatwa said, through its Facebook account, that “accusing people of falsehood, and fraud in attributing falsehood to them with slander and slander, is a malicious inhuman crime, which God combined – in forbidding it – with the worship of idols.”
Fayed says, “The religious institution speaks from a high tower. It must go down to people and interact with them in the street. The media flattens issues and issues about how to raise children in a proper way and how to correct wrong behaviors.”
Suicide and the culture of non-psychiatry
Some of the pioneers of the communication sites circulated a message to the girl confirming to her mother that she is not the girl in the pictures: “Mama, I hope you understand me. O Mama, a young girl, I do not deserve (I do not deserve) what is happening to this (what happens to me). I am seriously depressed. Mama, I am not able (I am not able) I am suffocating, I am very tired.”
Khaled Shalaby, Basant’s father, confirmed, on Monday, that he was confident in his daughter, revealing the scenes of confronting her with fabricated pictures before she committed suicide, according to the newspaper, “The Seventh Day.”
Shalaby said, in an interview with “On” channel, that his daughter “has good morals and is therefore loved by the people of her town, but one day she came home from school crying, and continued, “I was aware of the pictures spread on social media.”
Fayed says that “most parents have no idea of proper methods of upbringing or religious culture, and they raise randomly.”
She explains that “proper education is not only indoctrination, there must be attention, follow-up, closeness and dialogue between parents and their children, and if there was awareness, the girl could be contained for a cent and referred to a psychiatrist.”
She says, “Suicide results from a culture of not approaching a psychiatrist and considering going to him as a stigma, although among us there are those who suffer from fragile personalities, visual hallucinations, schizophrenia, hypersensitivity or depression, all of these diseases may lead a person to lose weight. He himself and sees that the solution is to get rid of his life.”
According to the World Health Organization, suicide is the fourth leading cause of death among adolescents aged 15-19 years.
Egypt ranks first in the Arab world in terms of suicide rates, surpassing countries experiencing armed conflicts and civil wars. Followed by Sudan, Yemen and Algeria.
In 2019, 3,022 people committed suicide in Egypt alone, according to the organization’s statistics.
Last September, public opinion in Egypt was preoccupied with the suicide of a girl in the fourth year at the Faculty of Dentistry from the sixth floor of one of the most famous malls in the Nasr City area, east of the capital, and then the suicide of another girl in the same area less than two months later, while another 18-year-old girl appeared ), in a live broadcast on her account on Instagram, as she attempts to commit suicide, appears in a live broadcast via Instagram during a suicide attempt in February 2021, as well as many other incidents.
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