Painful 'young deaths' after the online community clicks a button

Besides the encouraging positive aspects, social networks also bring about painful and painful consequences.

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In a recent interview, Mr. Nguyen Thanh Lam, Director of the Department of Radio, Television and Electronic Information, Ministry of Information and Communications, said that according to statistics, our country currently has about 48 million Facebook accounts and more than 30 million people online Facebook every day. The majority of social network users are young people.

It is not difficult to realize that social networks have become a daily habit like eating and drinking water for the majority of young people.

However, besides the encouraging positive aspects, social networks also bring about painful and distorted consequences.

We all remember a time when the online community was full of the trend of “saying is doing”, “like enough is doing” with extremely crazy methods. Or like the clips of students fighting were filmed in detail and posted online to get likes as a trophy…

One of the stories that must be mentioned is the story of a 13-year-old female student in Khanh Hoa who wrote the status: "If I get 1000 likes, I will set fire to the school."

Female student burned both legs after dousing school with gasoline. Photo: Zing

According to the girl in the incident, her sharing came from sadness and she never thought it would get 1,000 likes.

However, after just one night, that status had more than 1,000 likes, making the girl scared and trying to hide from her friends. However, her friends forced her to carry out her declaration, and even bought gasoline and gave it to her so she could burn down the school. The girl then suffered severe burns on her legs and needed a long time of treatment before she could recover.

But there are other heartbreaking cases that are not so lucky. Many young people have committed suicide because they could not bear the pressure of having their images posted on social media.

The death of NTAT (15 years old, in Cam My, Dong Nai) is a typical example. T and her boyfriend had been in love for over a year. A conflict arose between the two, and T's boyfriend posted a clip of the two having sex on social media.

After only a few hours, the clip of T. and her boyfriend was widely shared by the online community with hundreds of thousands of likes and malicious comments from Facebook users.

Unable to bear those malicious comments, T committed suicide by taking weed killer.

Or nearly a year ago, public opinion was extremely outraged by the incident where Bui Quang Huy (born in 2000), a student at Au Lac Secondary School (Yen Bai City, Yen Bai Province) hanged himself at home after being stopped, beaten, forced to kneel and beg for mercy in front of the school gate and the clip was posted online.

The image of Huy being humiliated by his friends and forced to kneel in front of the school gate must have come from the clip. Photo: zing

A day after the beating, Huy complained of a headache. His family immediately took him to the hospital to monitor his concussion. During his stay in the hospital, Huy was shocked every time he watched the clip of himself being beaten.

The clip recording Huy's assault spread at a dizzying speed, each like or share from netizens seemed to dig deep into the student's heart.

And just one day after being discharged from the hospital, she used hanging to relieve stress and crisis.

Huy's story is not an isolated one. There are many cases of female students being assaulted, such as the incident of a female student of VNTU (born in 2001) in Ho Chi Minh City that happened in August 2016.

She was beaten by a group of people and the video was posted online. The group repeatedly punched her, slapped her in the face with sandals, and dragged her hair in the middle of the street.

VNTU was assaulted by a group of friends and forced to lick feet cut from clip. Photo: Dan Tri

The climax of the 2-minute clip that caused a stir in the online community was when VNTU was forced to lick his friend's feet before being released...

The incident caused the female student to panic, become depressed and had to be treated for mental trauma caused by the assault.

This clip also shows the indifference of many people who witnessed the female student being beaten but did not run in to stop or help her.

It can be seen that tricks to attract likes and live a virtual life are causing extremely painful consequences, and the ones who suffer are none other than young people.

The heartbreaking pain of the students mentioned above is just a small number of the countless incidents that have happened in the past few years.

"Are we using social media as a tool to serve our lives or is social media controlling us?" is a burning question for many people. It requires each of us to be very alert before deciding to like, share or express our opinions on something.

According to VNN