12-yr-old rolls out Indian version of ‘Facebook’
The four also ensured complete security of user data. In the first two days of launch, over a one hundred people have joined the networking site with around 30 users turning out to be ‘fake’.
A 12-year-old school student conceptualised the idea of the Indian version of social networking site Facebook and with assistance from three seniors, he came up the Friends Networking site that allows registration of only Indians.
The four also ensured complete security of user data. In the first two days of launch, over one hundred people have joined the networking site with around 30 users turning out to be ‘fake’.
Rahul Choudhary, a class 9 student, proposed around a year ago, the idea of developing the Indian version of Facebook. He had a team comprising Riddhi Soral, an engineering graduate of Rajasthan Technical University and security developer, Ishan Upadhyay, a class 10 student who carried out research on developing an Indian version of Facebook and Tapan Kumar Jha, who is an engineering graduate and a cyber security expert who heads the four-member team.
The application is similar to Facebook and other chatting sites but it is safer and secure on users account with zero possibility of fake ID users. The user account on the site is activated not instantly but after eight hours through manual verification decreasing the possibility of a fake ID account, Jha said adding that users here cannot create multiple accounts with the same ID or mobile number.
Friends Networking site also has a mobile app of only 2.5 MB, which can be used with any small version of a cellphone. One is not required to have an expensive mobile phone to use the application but it can be used in an ordinary mobile phone also, he said. The site provides features like finding local friends, sending friend request, messaging, chatting, photo sharing, likes and comments, profile picture and cover image.