Online begging trend: We all know how much the circumstances have changed in the last few years. From the electricity bill to the vegetable seller, payment has started being done online. By just scanning a code on mobile, the biggest work is done in a jiffy. In such a situation, why only those who beg on the street should wait for the holidays. You will probably be surprised to know that there is also a place where beggars do not eat dust on the road but use mobiles for begging.
In the digital era, people are doing the smallest and biggest tasks online, in such a situation why beggars should be left behind? Instead of eating dust on the road, they also beg online. You have seen behavior and omens being given online, but even beggars in Indonesia are not far behind in this matter. There, through internet and social media, these beggars manage to earn their livelihood while sitting at home.
Do not run in the sun, beg from the phone while sitting at home
For this trick of beggars, their phone and social media are their companions. He has made his own account on Tiktok, on which he puts his pathetic videos and people ask for virtual gifts and money. It has been offered by this app that those who have 1000 followers can convert virtual gifts into real money. This is absolutely perfect for beggars on Tiktok. Through this, they do not have to face the sun and dust on the road, rather they record a video of themselves and put it on social media and they start getting money. Most of the elderly women ask people for goods and money by posting videos of themselves sitting in the mud.
Elderly women ask people for goods and money by putting videos of themselves sitting in the mud. (Credit-TikTok)
The government is also worried
The government has also been troubled by this strange trend of begging. In many Muslim countries, begging has been banned by the government. Apart from offline, online begging has also been banned here, so beggars earn money by posting videos of such stunts. Let us tell you that Tiktok has 99.1 million users in Indonesia, which has left behind even America. This is the reason why it is being used for everything from content creation to begging.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : February 05, 2023, 14:21 IST
