Things like this were certainly better before social media, when a trend like this would be contained to a school and would be less likely to spread across the world.
I think if we knew what the capabiltiies of social media platforms would be 25+ years ago, it would certainly be something we would see coming. The idea that a teenagers telling a bunch of other teenagers hundreds of kiometeres away what dumb and dangerous idea they came up with is probably one of the more predicable things that has happened.
It’s different when kids are doing bad shit on a platform that amplifies their reach.
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Things like this were certainly better before social media, when a trend like this would be contained to a school and would be less likely to spread across the world.
I think if we knew what the capabiltiies of social media platforms would be 25+ years ago, it would certainly be something we would see coming. The idea that a teenagers telling a bunch of other teenagers hundreds of kiometeres away what dumb and dangerous idea they came up with is probably one of the more predicable things that has happened.