THE FARZI APP
In
techno-savy generation social media and applications have become a large part
of our day to day life. From messaging to shopping online to paying our
bills online we have all the different applications. Along with this
advancement, we have also started coming across many fake news on social media
nowadays. So to deal with this problem we have another application - "the
farzi app".
Before
creating this app we had to do a lot of brain storming. We had to analyse the
problems faced by fake news and its sources among ourselves but the the root
cause for the problem is necessity to deal with the sources of fake news and
have such features in the app so that we can fight against this
problem. To have view of wide variety of users and to collect primary data
regarding the app a questionnaire was formed with the views of team members and
then google survey was conducted .In this survey 163 people gave there
responses.The data from the survey was analyzed and cross links between the
different fields were analyzed which was done so that we could finalize the
features which were necessary to inculcate in the application. The rough
draft of the app and the hyperlinks to be created were discussed upon by the
group members and the ideas were penned down on sheets .The app was designed so
as it could be accessed easily by the people of all group ages .
We
were also worried because we were competing against the most established social
media applications because our survey concluded that most of the fake news
today is coming from social media. But we knew our motive very well which was
to create a user friendly , helping app.
We
were given several deadlines to complete the project, so we had a lot of
pressure building up around us but we made our way out. We had to
complete the submission in stages starting with the concept , the layout of our
app pages followed by a prototype which we created using Invision app.
After all the hard work and changes we came up with the following
outcome:
- This app deals with the news in
its own style. It first analyses the news and then provides the users with
percentage of fake news and then the actual news. It also includes
graphical representation of sources of fake news and provides critic
statements of that particular field.
- It enables one to upload news by
providing the source. The news is first verified by the app and then it is
uploaded. If the news turns out to be true then on revealing the identity
one will receive incentives. Crime news can also be uploaded anonymously
for safety reasons which will help fight against the rising problems
of crimes and create awareness among people.
- Its also gives opportunity to a
person to block the fake news which is related to him or her by verifying
identity.
- Its provides new search options
like search by video or search by location.
- For it's premium package users it
provides day to day notifications of actual news , so they wont have to
rely on any other source which could be fake.the amount a premium user
will have to pay will be less than what he would pay for newspaper every
month.
- It also shows the trending news.
With
all these new features inculcated in our app we would hope to keep the users
active on the application as this would help them get rid off all the fake news
and get true current affairs.
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