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120 Positive Use of Social Media In a meeting with National Majlis ‘Amila Lajna Ima’illah, Ireland, Huzoor Anwar atba answered a question regarding responsibilities of parents in training of children and said: “There is no harm in receiving education at co-education institutions provided boys do not build friendships with girls and that they only communicate with each other when required. They should refrain from chatting, Facebook, SMS or phone calls. Advise parents to keep an eye on their children. It is not appropriate to keep mobile phones and computers constantly in use. Those mothers who are not familiar with computers ought to learn it in order to keep an eye on their children. ” (Meeting National Majlis ‘Amila Lajna Ima’illah Ireland, September 18, 2010, Al-Fazl International, October 22, 2010) While addressing ladies, regarding the high standard of moral training of their children and protecting them from the indecencies of social media, Huzoor Anwar atba advised Ahmadi mothers and Ahmadi girls and said: “Then, there are useless pursuits. I particularly wish to tell children that useless pursuits are not limited only to older women. They certainly engage in them and it needs to be stopped. However, these days, TV and the Internet have also become a useless pursuit for girls from 10-12 years to adolescents. If you are watching a program all day which has no moral aspect, then it is a useless pursuit. On the Internet, sometimes girls go to sites from where there is no turning back and then obscenity propagates. Sometimes such matters are encountered where boys in wrong kinds of groups entrap girls in such a manner that eventually they flee from their