As shooting rates among the young remain stratospheric, evidence suggests social media is serving as an accelerant to violence. Taunts that once could be forgotten now live on before large audiences, prompting people to take action.
Some people spend all their time on it arguing and being needlessly toxic, and they’re connected to it all day.
The (incorrect) idea with video games/metal was that they made people aggressive; meanwhile, social media is a platform where people actively go to be aggressive to other people and rile themselves up.
This DEFINITELY has some merit to it, unfortunately. You can track and kill someone via social media, see all the videos of drive-by shootings that gang memembers perpetrate on each other when one of them goes of Facebook or Instagram live streams. Hell I’ve seen plenty of people held hostage and beaten on those videos too. A subreddit I was on years ago called /watchpeopledie actually got shut down because of a guy who killed himself on live for the subreddit. Then someone else was planning on doing it and they had to nuke the sub.
Point being that people actually do kill others and themselves for the camera.
Oh, it’s not video games and heavy metal anymore?
Social media is far worse.
Some people spend all their time on it arguing and being needlessly toxic, and they’re connected to it all day.
The (incorrect) idea with video games/metal was that they made people aggressive; meanwhile, social media is a platform where people actively go to be aggressive to other people and rile themselves up.
Yeah, but in most countries they can’t then go out and easily buy a gun to take out those frustrations.
So you’re saying social media may be … Accelerating the energy and will to commit homicides? Perhaps like a fuel?
Video games and heavy metal I found is good for my mental health
This DEFINITELY has some merit to it, unfortunately. You can track and kill someone via social media, see all the videos of drive-by shootings that gang memembers perpetrate on each other when one of them goes of Facebook or Instagram live streams. Hell I’ve seen plenty of people held hostage and beaten on those videos too. A subreddit I was on years ago called /watchpeopledie actually got shut down because of a guy who killed himself on live for the subreddit. Then someone else was planning on doing it and they had to nuke the sub.
Point being that people actually do kill others and themselves for the camera.