In their views of embracing the good in order to remove the ugliness from social media, many individuals and organizations in Da Nang are active in sharing positive content, meaningful and inspiring stories of  good deeds, and kindness on social media platforms to help local people get access to reliable and accurate information, as well as help them live more meaningfully and a better life, thereby spreading positive human values in local communities.

Members of Youth Union Organization of a class 11th at the Hoang Hoa Tham Senior High School giving gifts and lucky money to poor patients at the Da Nang Hospital for Women and Children.

The fanpage of the Youth Union Organization of the Hoang Hoa Tham Senior High School is attractive to the school’s teachers, its student, and their parents, along with parents of the school's former students. In addition to the school’s main Facebook page operating throughout the school year with 13,000 members, the School has also created a specialized page with 1,600 members to share information about the school’s summer volunteer activities called “The Red Phoenix Flower Campaign”.

Mr. Le Manh Tan, the former Secretary of the school’s Youth Union Organization, who acts as an administrator of the school’s Facebook said that the school’s Facebook was created in 2019 to post news and articles about activities of the school’s Youth Union Organization under the motto of ‘ A Good news and a good story every day’.

Hundreds of good news and meaningful stories of good deeds have been shared through the school’s Facebook over the past 4 years. Including were stories of the school’s students about honesty and outstanding achievements as they returned lost property to its owners, as well as won high prizes in national and municipal -level competitions. During the recent Lunar New Year, the school’s ‘Spring of Love" program has seen active involvement of its students who demonstrated their social responsibility, as well as promote a spirit of mutual support, foster a sense of unity within their communities by participating in charitable activities.

In detail, members of the Youth Union Organization of a class 11^th at Hoang Hoa Tham Senior High School paid a visit to the Da Nang Hospital for Women and Children to give gifts and lucky money to poor patients who are undergoing treatment at this hospital. In addition, heed was paid to making Banh Chung (square sticky rice cake) to give to the poor. Moreover, importance was attached to working with the Dong Giang - Hoang Hoa Tham Charity Fund of the school’s former teachers to offer Tet gifts to the school’s students in difficult circumstances.

Apart from sharing stories of ‘good people, good deeds’ through the school's Facebook page, the school has also posted stories of shining examples, along with beautiful and inspiring stories about life, plus information about career guidance and useful information on this page in order to help the school involve all its students and their parents in meaningful ways, facilitating social cohesion and positive behavior change in them.

Using social media to promote positivity ​​is also the key task of educators in an attempt to give the direction and spread the positivity to their students so that they can have the right views on an issue suitable to their school and age.

According to the admins of Facebook pages of some schools in the city, sharing stories of good deeds through schools’ Facebook has inspired more students to follow, thereby contributing to bringing values of life in young people, inspiring them to perform good deeds or actions to make a meaningful difference in the lives of others.

Social media has undoubtedly brought about positive changes, such as increased communication and connectivity, economic benefits, and educational opportunities, commented Mr. Le Chien, the Founder of the SASA Marine Animals Rescue Center with 62,000 followers on its Facebook.

At one time the Center attracted up to 20 rescuers who volunteered to protect coral reefs, and sea creatures as a whole, in Da Nang and neighboring localities, thereby bringing positive energy to the Center’s staff to inspire them to successfully create artificial coral reefs.

Mr. Chien hoped that sharing good news along with inspiring and positive stories through the Center’s Facebook will help cultivate positive behavior and thinking in the public in order to encourage their active participation in protecting coral reefs, and preserving reef-building coral genetic resources in the face of climate change and rising sea temperatures.

“Our Facebook page highlights the important role of coral reefs in protecting the marine environment. Hence, the importance of coral reefs as a source of life-saving products is a powerful reason for improving efforts to protect them. We hope for support from local authorities to help us create a marine protected area for supporting coral reef resilience," Mr. Chien remarked.

Created in April 2019 by the Da Nang Police Department, Tien Sa Facebook page aims to share positive information, stories of good deeds, beautiful stories of police officers and local people who are actively engaged with the city’s fight against crime and the movement “All people protect national security”, beautiful images of Da Nang's culture, life, land, people, and activities of the city's leaders, thereby contributing to spreading positivity, as well as fighting against hostile and false news on social media, as well as protecting the Party’s ideological foundation.

Currently, Tien Sa Facebook page has over 26,000 followers, interactions, and shares, contributing to spreading positive information about Da Nang, and the country as a whole. Every day, the page posts 1-5 good news and articles in a bid to share meaningful stories, good deeds, and acts of kindness on social media platforms to inspire more people to follow these shining examples, thereby raising cybersecurity awareness among local residents, as well as contributing to developing Da Nang into a civilized city.

Reporting by HOANG NHUNG – Translating by H.L