Mawra Hocane degree University of London

Pakistan’s actress Mawra Hocane reveals that she has almost left the showbiz industry due to brutal online trolling.

In a recent interview, Mawra has shared that there was a time she was so disheartened by the trolls and hate on social media and decided to quit acting.

“I didn’t know a thing about Instagram, even though people credit me for being one of the first celebs to join it and start some sort of trend. For me, it was just something I just enjoyed using. I was 19 when I started working. So I’d take pictures on the sets of my projects and upload them,” recalled the Sabaat starlet.

She reminisced how her co-stars would often inquire what she was doing, to which she’d tell them about ‘this app called Instagram’. “They all would just weird out because nobody thought it would become so big,” the actress continued.

But when asked about how toxic social media can be considering the importance it has been given today, especially for actors, Hocane replied, “Like I said, when I had started working, Instagram was just another app. But as time went on, people started asking me to use this ‘platform’ to educate other actors and people. And I would tell them, social media, without us, is nothing.”

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