Where do all these stupid and dangerous tick tock trends come from?
And why are people dumb enough to do them?
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Those, especially teenagers, who follow such trends probably think themselves brave, immortal and immune from harm; but peer-pressure is a major driver in trends of any sort.
They are not "dumb", or rather they are not unintelligent; but they are not very good at thinking of hazards, risks and consequences when seeing something that might look like daring fun.
Will TikTok do anything about it? I doubt it. The people who run sites like that do not care. It's time they were brought to account and made responsible as the publishers they pretend not to be.
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You may know of the Inquest into the suicide of a teenaged English girl. It revealed she had become practically addicted to on-line fora about harming oneself, even suicide. Called as a witness, a senior manager in the UK of one site responsible for hosting these fora - I think it was TickTock - tried to claim these are serious self-help discussions. Another witness though, said most of the posts were appalling, no help at all; and gave him sleepless nights for about three weeks - and he is a professional child-psychologist who has presumably seen and hear a lot of distressing cases in his work.
They are not "dumb", or rather they are not unintelligent; but they are not very good at thinking of hazards, risks and consequences when seeing something that might look like daring fun.
Will TikTok do anything about it? I doubt it. The people who run sites like that do not care. It's time they were brought to account and made responsible as the publishers they pretend not to be.
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You may know of the Inquest into the suicide of a teenaged English girl. It revealed she had become practically addicted to on-line fora about harming oneself, even suicide. Called as a witness, a senior manager in the UK of one site responsible for hosting these fora - I think it was TickTock - tried to claim these are serious self-help discussions. Another witness though, said most of the posts were appalling, no help at all; and gave him sleepless nights for about three weeks - and he is a professional child-psychologist who has presumably seen and hear a lot of distressing cases in his work.
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A desire to be seen and to fit in
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