http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/25/suicidal-online-research-internet-suicide
I have founded this article at the web page of the British newspaper “The Guardian” and it talks about the new challenges for internet, in order to prevent the suicide, as well as for the new opportunities that exist for reaching vulnerable people. The reality is that there are people that feel really alone and distressed who go to really dark and sinister social media or forums where people promotes the suicide and try to capture vulnerable people who are in a difficult moment of their lives, and the only thing they want is to express their feelings of distress.
Samaritans, who have been providing emotional support for nearly 60 years, would take advantage of the social networks trying to reach more people in a safe and supportive way.
The danger of social networks is that a distressed people can contact, in an immediately way, with another people in the same situation reinforcing each other's suicidal feelings, what is really dangerous because someone can think that suicide is a normalized way out for a distressed person.
Another interesting reflection in the article is that in our society, suicide is considered as a taboo subject and this people go to this forums to feel comfortable and looking for the anonymity.
Fortunately, some forums have strict rules that prohibit their users from encouraging or normalizing the idea of suicide, blocking anyone who gives advice about how to do it.
In my opinion the suicide is a recourse very extremely to scape from a difficult situation which perturbs really hard your feelings and your desire of being alive. I think that it is a mistake because in the life there are always reasons to continue and be happy, but I can't really give an opinion because I have never lived a situation which removed me the will to live.
To conclude, I would like to say that I have read at this article a really good way to control some of bad situations for vulnerable people at internet. The thing is that the Samaritans, together with Google have created “Google OneBox” that publicizes their helpline number when anyone searches for the word suicide. I think that is a really good idea to control what people do at the media, but not enough because internet is a very complex world and it is very difficult to control everything.
Excellent, both the summary and commentary.
ResponderEliminarBecareful with adjectives.
'immediately way,'
immediate way
'a normalized way'
a normal way
This article that Marc has chosen is one of the most interesting articles that I’ve read because talks about an issue that worries everyone, but everyone hides. Everyone knows people who surf the internet is vulnerable to any kind of websites. It is a fact that one of the challenges of “the internet” is trying to prevent possible suicides.
ResponderEliminarAs marc comment on our blog, I’m totally agreed with him. People who are depressed or feel alone try to get involved with social websites that try to convince him to do what they want, those are the dangerous websites that we have on the internet.
Thank god, not all the websites that try to convince their followers to commit suicide, have strict rules to get in and some people can get in.
In my opinion suicide it is the easiest and stupidest thing to do if you want to escape from your problems, reality and real life. We have to admitted, life is tough and we have to fight to survive it.
A very important thing to stress of this article that Marc also comment, is that the Samaritans together with Google have created an application in Google called “Google OneBox”. The function of Google OneBox is that when people type “suicide” on Google, automatically appears a list of help-websites that try to avoid the suicide.
Juan Pérez de Rozas
Good, nice commentary and well expressed.
ResponderEliminarREMEMBER! I totally agree. *NOT* I'm totally agree.