As shooting rates among the young remain stratospheric, evidence suggests social media is serving as an accelerant to violence. Taunts that once could be forgotten now live on before large audiences, prompting people to take action.
Really no different from youth culture for, well, forever I guess. It just moved from in person social cues and “turf battles” to online.
It’s the same stuff that made the kids throw down in West Side Story 66 years ago, and that was based on the same stuff that made the kids throw down in Romeo and Juliet 426 years ago.
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Really no different from youth culture for, well, forever I guess. It just moved from in person social cues and “turf battles” to online.
It’s the same stuff that made the kids throw down in West Side Story 66 years ago, and that was based on the same stuff that made the kids throw down in Romeo and Juliet 426 years ago.
https://youtu.be/SEzskNtFnIY