More Danger of Social Media
This is my second part of article in which you will see How Social networking Sites are harming our daily lives. In the last article we saw some real examples from web which are showing how Social networking Sites are harming our daily lives. As the popularity of social media sites (such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace) continues to explode, stories about the danger of social networking are piling up.
You will find how much people are using Social Media to get popularity in weird way.
A fire at a University of Guelph residence Saturday night was part of an apparent suicide attempt that was streamed online, school officials said Monday. A 20-year-old male student, believed to be the person who set the fire, was taken to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries. The fire, which broke out just after 7:30 p.m., forced dozens of students to evacuate the residence. The student live streamed his apparent suicide attempt on a video-sharing website.
Anytime something like this happens, we have to step back,” Brenda Whiteside, the university’s vice-president of student affairs, told CTV Kitchener. “Were there things that we missed? Were there things we can do differently?” About 30 students have been temporarily displaced from their rooms at Dundas Hall, part of the university’s East Residence. The university is providing counselling services for students who need it. “The most important thing is they have access to information,” Irene Thompson, the university’s director of housing, said, adding that this time of year is particularly stressful for students as exams approach. “We want to make sure that they have what they need to survive.”
The first few minutes of the video show a male student moving around a dorm room. Then, roughly eight minutes into the video, flames can be seen engulfing a corner of the small room. The video camera continues to run for the next 20 minutes or so until rescue workers arrive. Kate Schievink, a student who was displaced by the fire, said the video is hard to watch. “If you didn’t have anything to do with the incident itself, I wouldn’t watch it,” she said. Alastair Summerlee, the university’s president, is asking all students, staff and faculty to avoid watching the video. In an online message, Summerlee also said that he considers the University of Guelph community a family. “We pull together in times of crisis and to help those in need. Let us continue to support and strengthen one another,” he wrote.
