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Nov 29 2018

The Chakmas and the so called Facebook heroes

 

Facebook, started in 2003 as FaceMash has evolved as Facebook in 2004 and gone global in 2007-08. Chakmas started to flock together in Facebook in 2009-10. In that time the world was experiencing some unique movements which gathered their strengths from online activism. Arab Spring (December 2010), Occupy Wall Street and Anna Hazare’s movement demanding strong Lokpal Bill (April 2011) also may have direct or indirect influence on the Chakma online activists.

I have joined Facebook on 24th September 2010. Before my joining, the pioneers among the Mizoramme Chakma Facebookians Hemanta Larma and Paritosh Chakma joined FB on February 2009 and February 2010 respectively. Arunachalye Chakmas came much later. Ranjan Chakma joined in June 2012 and Orunjit Changma in January 2013. However, three Chakma Facebookians from Arunachal namely Prahlad Chakma (joined in October 2009), Punya Chakma (March 2010) and Vivekananda Chakma (joined in July 2011) was already there but we could not feel strong presence of Arunachallye Chakmas till the arrival of Ranjan and Orunjit. Bangladeshi Chakmas are also started using FB in the same time. As example, we may mention the name of Odong Chakma (joined in May 2009), Sedampanja Chakma (June 2010) and Radhamon Donpudi (joined in August 2010).

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