| Good example of how panics can spread 08:34 - Feb 28 with 1260 views | Guthrum |
and why in the internet age, people (not just children) need to be educated on how to assess the veracity and significance of what they're reading/watching.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/28/viral-momo-challenge-is-a-mal
One thing (an image from a Japanese horror show) is turned into another (a rumoured threat to children), then via a social media post blindly repeated into a third (a panic sufficiently large as to involve warnings by the police). All because nobody bothered to check the background and research whether it really existed.
Such panics did happen prior to the internet (e.g. Spring Heel Jack), but their scope and speed are greatly enhanced nowadays.
We need to teach people (of all ages) to think before hitting "repost". |  |
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| Good example of how panics can spread on 08:56 - Feb 28 with 1179 views | Guthrum |
Part of the problem is with automated systems. They are simply not sophisticated enough to make distinctions between a genuine Peppa Pig video and one which is mostly that, but has other stuff intercut. And it is, in practical terms (including cost), virtually impossible to make them so.
At the same time, the volume of material is vastly too great for any kind of human filtering.
With children, YouTube probably ought to be treated the way TV was when I was a child - limited time allowed and supervision of what we were allowed to watch. Tho in those days there was only one set in the house, as opposed to everybody carrying an internet-capable device in their pockets. | |
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| Good example of how panics can spread on 08:58 - Feb 28 with 1170 views | StokieBlue |
YouTube is only really good for old Horizon documentaries.
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| Good example of how panics can spread on 08:58 - Feb 28 with 1170 views | DebsyAngel |
I wish I had never seen the thing - scared the living hell out of me, and I am a fully grown adult! |  | | |
| Good example of how panics can spread on 09:06 - Feb 28 with 1153 views | Steve_M |
| Good example of how panics can spread on 08:56 - Feb 28 by Guthrum |
Part of the problem is with automated systems. They are simply not sophisticated enough to make distinctions between a genuine Peppa Pig video and one which is mostly that, but has other stuff intercut. And it is, in practical terms (including cost), virtually impossible to make them so.
At the same time, the volume of material is vastly too great for any kind of human filtering.
With children, YouTube probably ought to be treated the way TV was when I was a child - limited time allowed and supervision of what we were allowed to watch. Tho in those days there was only one set in the house, as opposed to everybody carrying an internet-capable device in their pockets. |
That but there is a lot of piss-poor judgement around this particular 'threat' from schools and police forces which is only perpetuating the problem here. |  |
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| Good example of how panics can spread on 09:08 - Feb 28 with 1143 views | Guthrum |
| Good example of how panics can spread on 09:06 - Feb 28 by Steve_M |
That but there is a lot of piss-poor judgement around this particular 'threat' from schools and police forces which is only perpetuating the problem here. |
Which was really my original point. People (including the authorities) creating a problem by freaking out about something which isn't real, because they haven't bothered to check it first. | |
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| Good example of how panics can spread on 09:09 - Feb 28 with 1135 views | Guthrum |
| Good example of how panics can spread on 08:58 - Feb 28 by StokieBlue |
YouTube is only really good for old Horizon documentaries.
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There are some great woodworking tutorials on there. | |
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| Good example of how panics can spread on 09:26 - Feb 28 with 1105 views | Ewan_Oozami |
snopes.com is one of the best places for debunking internet myths - anyone who has any interest in protecting people online from this sort of thing should familiarise themselves with that site and make it their first point of call in these cases. |  |
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| Good example of how panics can spread on 09:36 - Feb 28 with 1079 views | King_of_Portman_Rd |
There is also the 'Blue Whale challenge' that was the hot topic a few months ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-46505722
They attributed a few suicides to it, but then have never been able to find evidence of a definitive version of it, so it seems to have gained traction through Chinese whispers and the odd news story yet no one knows if it ever was really a 'thing' until someone posted an article about it warning of the dangers. |  | | |
| Good example of how panics can spread on 11:15 - Feb 28 with 1004 views | SWGF |
We actually had a three-page letter home from school, explaining the threat, with the Momo word asterisked (if that's a word in itself) so the kids wouldn't see and search for it. |  |
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| Good example of how panics can spread on 11:27 - Feb 28 with 969 views | Swansea_Blue |
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