Literature DB >> 31323535

"I will kill myself" - The series of posts in Facebook and unnoticed departure of a life.

Tanjir Rashid Soron1.   

Abstract

Social media has connected the world and transformed the concept of social interaction and traditional communication. However, the concern is rising as people started using the platform for sharing fake news, violent intentions and activities including suicide and homicide. In this paper, I report the case of a media worker in Bangladesh who committed suicide after sharing series of Facebook posts mentioning her intensions to commit suicide. Thousands of her Facebook friends and followers noticed the posts; few of them shared the posts and made critical comments. This case documented the use of Facebook to disclose the intention of committing suicide in Bangladesh. Though Facebook is gaining attention as a potential source to predict and provide timely intervention to prevent suicide, this case raised the question about the effective participation of Facebook users in such programs. We need to emphasis and focus on ensuring active participation of most of Facebook users in any social media based suicide prevention program. This report may inspire future researchers to find out more user friendly and participatory social media focused suicide prevention programs.
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Keywords:  Bangladesh; Facebook; Schadenfreude; Suicide

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Year:  2019        PMID: 31323535     DOI: 10.1016/j.ajp.2019.07.002

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Asian J Psychiatr        ISSN: 1876-2018


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1.  Detecting Suicidal Ideation in Social Media: An Ensemble Method Based on Feature Fusion.

Authors:  Jingfang Liu; Mengshi Shi; Huihong Jiang
Journal:  Int J Environ Res Public Health       Date:  2022-07-05       Impact factor: 4.614

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