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NEW DELHI: Former BJP ideologue KN Govindacharya has questioned the NarendraModi government's enthusiasm for social networking sites, saying it only benefits companies like Facebook at the cost of public exchequer.

In an affidavit filed in HC, Govindacharya has also challenged the government's move to outsource management of official social networking accounts to private agencies, saying it endangers public data and may lead to more cyber crimes.

"Government can neither surrender the rights on public records nor can it give commercial usage rights without sharing the revenue from such operations, since there are many social media companies which offer sharing of revenue with users as per their usages. That the huge business empire of Facebook is created in India due to the Government's surrender of rights of public records and also active propagation/ advertisements of their business operations through government machinery," the affidavit says, seeking a stay on decisions of "many ministries, including the Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD), which have issued tenders for appointment of management agencies for the operations of government social media accounts."

A bench of Justices B D Ahmed and Siddharth Mridul will take up Govindacharya's affidavit with the main PIL that is slated to come up for hearing on September 26. Earlier HC had observed that "use of internet services, which transfers public data to offshore locations, concerns the integrity and sovereignty of the country" and had questioned the Centre "why public records should go outside India".

Filed through advocate Virag Gupta, Govindacharya also faulted the government for being unable to implement compulsory usage of digital signatures for opening of social media accounts, "which may not only stop such misuse but also reduce or put a stop to many frauds and cyber crimes."

The affidavit came in response to HC direction on August 01 when it asked Govindacharya to elaborate on his allegations that social networking sites, including Facebook and Twitter, are being used by government officials and ministers for official purposes in violation of the Public Records Act.

It has come in the wake of the Centre's submission on August 1 that it has formulated a draft e-mail policy restraining government officials from using services of offshore internet service providers for official purposes which would be placed before the Cabinet at the earliest for approval

Govindacharya has also alleged that "under the pretence of free services to Indians, the private companies are capturing huge volume of data, including public records and thus monopolizing operations in the Indian economy".

His PIL seeks a direction to government to ensure safety of the data of 140 million Indian users which are transferred "to the US and is being used for commercial gains in violation of the right to privacy."

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Are you one of those people who dreadsnetworking to get ahead? Does it make you feelicky? Well, you're not alone.

Turns out,networking can make people feel so grossthat it translates to feelings of physicaldirtiness,according to a study in an upcoming issue of Administrative Science Quarterly.

Researchers found that professional, instrumental networking -- the kind ofplanned, thought-out and calculated networkingusedto advance your career --leavespeople feeling more physically dirty than social, spontaneous networking.

Researchers atthe University of Toronto, Harvard and Northwestern ran experimentsin labsand surveyed lawyers at a large U.S.firm. Peoplewere asked to either recount past networking experiences or imagine themselves in certain scenarios. They were also given tasks, like word completions, or told to choose adjectives or productsfrom a list todescribe their experience.

They found that people associated calculated, professional networking with the need for cleaning supplies, or with adjectives like "dirty." But people didn'tfeel that way about spontaneous, social networking.

One explanation: professional networking is often perceived being inherently selfish, rather than something thatbenefits others, said study author TizianaCasciaro, an associate professor at University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.

Think of actively pursuing new friends or spontaneously meeting new people; thenthink of actively pursuingpotential newclients. "That is harder to conceive as altruistically-driven,"Casciaro said.

In recent years, there has been "strong evidence" that thoughts of moral impurity actually translate into physical reactions, Casciaro said. For instance, people who commit unethical acts have an urge to cleanse themselves.

Thenegative attitudespeople expresstoward networking actually prompted researchersto study the psychology behind it.

"When you teach about networks--what theycan help you do--this stuff comes up.Oh, this nasty business of having to go out there and build relationships and checking people out. It feels awkward and uncomfortable," Casciaro said. "Not everyone feels that way, but obviously many do."

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A registered sex offender was arrested this week while waiting to meet with an under-age teen for sexual activities that had been arranged on a social networking site, Caldwell County authorities said.

Samuel Henry Vinci Jr., 54, of Granite Falls, was taken into custody Tuesday, deputies said. He was charged with solicitation by computer of a minor to commit an unlawful sex act and appear at a meeting location; failure to register an online identifier; providing false information during address verification; and violation of the social networking ban by a sex offender.

He was jailed under $250,000 bond, deputies said.

Vinci was released from prison in February 2009 after serving time for a pair of second-degree rape convictions in 1998 in Rutherford County, according to prison records. Investigators said Vinci was placed on the North Carolina Sex Offender Registry at the time of his release.

Authorities accuse Vinci of contacting an under-age minor over a social networking site recently and arranging to meet that person for sexual activities.

Caldwell County Sheriff Alan Jones said the case is a reminder for parents.

I encourage parents to be proactive to ensure the safety of their children, by monitoring the childs Internet and social networking activities, Jones said.

He said parents should know the passwords to their childrens email and social media accounts and review them regularly. He also suggested parents regularly review the content stored on childrens cellphones and personal computers, and limit the amount of personal information children list on their social networking accounts.

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