A game story on "networking sites" encourages teenagers to commit suicide: Watch your children's accounts well

In just 6 months, between November 2015 and April 2016, Russia saw 130 suicide cases among teenagers. Russian police then speculated that suicides were for teenagers who all participated in a strange challenge spread through social media.

Police found that all teenagers who committed suicide were members of the same "groups" on social networking sites, all of whom lived a good and happy life among their families and did not suffer any problems, the Sun newspaper reported.

The challenge was a suicidal game among teenagers in Russia, through social networking sites, where participants were encouraged to follow certain rituals and instructions, culminating in suicide.

It is believed that the game is a "group" on social networking sites that attract teenagers to join them, encourage them to kill themselves, and there are a group of young people running this group. They charge teenagers with several tasks within 50 days. They are asked to draw a whale on their hands and legs And ordered them to wake up on strange dates, such as the fourth morning, and on the 50th day, they have already taken the decision to commit suicide, the final stage in the game in which the participant gets rid of his life .
And the conditions of the game is that once you start it can not be left, you have to continue to the end, and that the tasks performed by the participant should not be known by anyone else, and should not object to the commands dictated to the participant, and must send a picture of all the orders that are executed , As evidence to follow and carry out.

The game is based on attracting adolescents with weak souls who are not psychologically stable and who suffer from depression and do not feel important in life. They are easy to integrate into anything and dictate their commands. This game depends on brainwashing of the teenager so that it is easy to influence. To convince him of the idea of ​​suicide, and easily implemented.

Hundreds of thousands of photos have been published on the InStagram website, linked to the trend of encouraging teenagers to commit suicide, not only to Russia, but also to other countries. British police have begun to warn parents about the dangers of the game, Spread among adolescents.
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Tags : suicide - Teen suicide - Game Blue Whale - Suicide game
BY: Salma Yousef - Faculty of Mass media and Communication Technology