Disturbing videos of 7-year-old girl playing 'Blue Whale Challenge' emerge

Even though the internet comes with innumerous advantages, it also has adark side. It is disturbing how people can exploit the internet to manipulate innocent minds into committing horrendous tasks.

One such instance is the Blue Whale Game that spread like wildfire all over the world to claim thelives of several people. The challenge consists of a series of tasks assigned to players during a 50-day period, with the final challenge requiring the player to commit suicide.

The so called purpose of this game was to "clean" the society by pushing to suicide those having no value.

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After making waves in Russia, US, and the UK, the whale has reached the Indian shore. Several incidents related to the challenge have been reported in India.

In yet another incident, Priyanka Bansal from Delhi was devastated to discover her seven-year-old niece downloading the Blue Whale game on her father's phone. Even though the game has been removed from play store, children are still probably downloading games with a similar name or based on a near concept.

Priyanka turned to Facebook to express her concerns and urged parents to be more careful when it comes to exposing children to the internet.

This is what she wrote:

Alert - *Blue Whale Game*: It is entering our homes slowly.

My 7 yr old niece who is comfortable in using android play store and usually download baby games and play. We take it lightly and let her use our phones. Today after coming from school she asked her mother to spell blue and without any doubt, she dictated it to her. After some time she asked her to spell whale too. Her mother failed to relate it as she asked it at a different point. The day went usual with mundane chores.

At around 10:00 at night, when we were about to sleep she asked me "Bua what is theBlue whale game about". I was amazed to hear those words coming out of this tiny mouth and confirmed: "Beta are you asking about the whale?" She confirmed that she is asking for the new game. "No No that Blue Whale game I am asking," she said. A sense of fear rushed inside me, "but why are you asking cia, vo tou bhoot ki game hain" I said worriedly. ( We Indians relate anything to bhoot(Ghost) to keep kids out of it this trick worked and:

After that, she started howling and crying about her mistake of downloading this game, as she thought now the ghost will haunt her. We got scared that she might have started playing this game. We checked all the devices at home and got to know that she downloaded this game on her father's phone.
I asked her, why and how did you come to know about this game. She said there are 2 bhaiyas in her school van who asked all these kids to download this game and not to delete it, they also said this is a very funny and interesting game. I thought whom she is referring would be senior boys but again she surprised us by telling that they are small kids of 4-5 class, she is in 1st standard.

She is crying badly again and again and refusing to go to school and to the van now. We are trying to ask her if the kids have suggested something more than she revealed.
I hugged her and made her calm down " Cia why did you ask me about this now and not in the afternoon" she said she wanted to play this game as bhaiya said it is really nice but got scared "Us game ko kholne pe whale thi badi si uski body main kuch mask jaisa tha tou main dur gayi" she added.

I opened that app and the instructions said that you need a virtual device to go further. I don't know if it was the real game, a copy, a funny version or harmless game of similar name. I deleted it there and then cleared all history from the app store too.

She is very small and I am sure she would not have gone further in operating this game or in reading instructions, But who knows if she could have done this.
Fortunately, we got to know about her actions in the very initial stage of this stupidity. I was worried for those boys too, have informed the school principal to call and talk to the parents and alert them for these actions of theirinnocent kids.

We made a few clips after making her calm down and asking the incident once again.
I request all you to share this incident and keep a check on your kids. Keep your devices locked and away from kids.
Imagine that the deadly game is been discussed by kids of 1st class and suggested by kids of 4th class. Please find out a way to talk to kids or may be use what I did.(Bhoot version). Please take care of your small ones.

The first death in India resulted from this deadly game was just a 14-year-old kid from Mumbai.
Share this and please tag the parents of the small kids.

In order to talk her niece out of the game, Priyanka told her the game is haunted and that if she continues playing it, a ghost will haunt her too.
The girl was petrified and started weeping and gasping.

In today's times, children in most households have easy access to technological devices. Some unaware parents fail to notice the dangers that the internet comes with.

It has the power to influence innocent minds -- so much so that it can be threatening to their lives altogether.