Do you think social media make people much more insensitive ?

[ヘビーメタル��射]

Yesterday was the TechnoParade in Paris. It's a day of "joy" supposedly, where tons of people just dance in the streets, following various chariots where DJs play.
I've been there a couple of times already and it's very common that young people fool around, climb up bus stops or statues. Also, since it's in the streets, the security is pretty poor. A lot of people are stoned and/or drunk.



Yesterday, a guy fell off this statue to his death. I've been seeing a bunch of photos and videos (some are gruesome, you could see his head surrounded by blood and all), and I'm just completely disgusted by the situation. What gets to me the most is that half of the comments I see on facebook or twitter are either saying it was fun or saying the guy was a dumbass anyways. I mean sure, it was a dumb move,  but what the hell happened to paying hommage & respect to dead people?

Here are some comments that particularly got me on Facebook :
"Seeing him fall was so exciting"
"What a dumbass, it's just the world deciding that a dumbass should die today :)"
"A glass of alcohol and you suddenly feel like a bird lmao"
"He was definitely looking for it"

I'm really really grossed out by this whole situation, it creeps me the hell out. How can people become such assholes behind their screens man... 

Anyways, I hope that guy rests in peace. It must be so difficult for the family to see all those videos and photos
 

[succhun]

Yes, I believe there's a research about it too. Not sure where it is though. (This is the article. Found it.)

[Soo]

Either way, dumb or not, a life was lost, and that should be not made fun of, but respected.

[Jean Grey]

It depends. People on tumblr are actually too sensitive.

[hiraishrimp]

Wow what the actual fuck? And yes, I can't count the amount of times somebodies corpse has been uploaded to social media..even using that man who shot the people on live TV as an example.

Btw OT but I really like your sig, f(x) + junji ito <3

[nancy mcflurry]

Sometimes they're way too sensitive.

[h0neanias]

In some areas, it does. In others, people are getting much more sensitive instead.

[iluvuhater]

It depends. People on tumblr are actually too sensitive.

[jaehyun]

but what the hell happened to paying hommage & respect to dead people?

 

I have asked myself about this a million times and my conclusion is: this does not exist anymore.

[silicon soul]

SNS basically allowed idiots to have a voice.

[blank_stare]

It's because we are exposed to this things in the news and every where. We see these things and we get desensitized and our thought process changes from being sensitive to the opposite.

[hiraishrimp]

Sometimes they're way too sensitive.

 

Lol yeah. It's either one extreme or another

 

See: @tumblr.com

[misakijinki95]

Poor guy....What disgusts me isn't his "dumb" idea of climbing a statue but the people around him and on SNS who don't have humanity at all.

 

The problem is that on SNS you can say/read whatever you want so you may end up being  too sensitive or too insensitive

[Jongin88]

It depends. People on tumblr are actually too sensitive.

[night vale.]

It's a binary between insensitivity and over-sensitivity at times