Death by selfie!

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2 years ago

A couple of hours ago, I was listening to the morning radio when I heard an amazing fact by the presenter. 249 people have died since 2011 while taking a selfie.

These days, a social media post would be quite boring without a perfect selfie and in recent times, there had been a steady rise of cases of individuals who have gone as far as putting their lives on the line just to have a thrilling photo or video.

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Recently, I read about the unfortunate death of a bride-to-be who was involved in a car crash alongside her best friend. Her friend was at the wheels and the lady was about taking a selfie with a caption of her upcoming wedding. Well, you know how ladies get excited when a possible scenario of having a selfie presents itself. No sooner have they started taking photos that her friend lost focus of the road ahead. The two girls soon became the casualty of very ghastly accident involving a truck coming from the opposite direction.

A 21 year old beautiful lady was electrocuted and burned to death when she mistakenly held onto a bunch of naked wires while posing for a selfie while standing on a high fence. I think she's likely to have thousands of followers whose likes and shares keep urging her to keep exploring and experimenting.

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We all could recall seeing a post or two in social media reporting a death as a result selfie gone wrong. It could be a girl standing on top of the a balcony several story building and falling off. Another person missing a step and falling from a cliff or a slippery Rock while trying to capture that thrilling moment. In most cases, the individual would have already uploaded the photo or video on a favorite social media accout before they fall to their death.

No need to mention that a huge majority of these people under to 30. You could call it youthful exurberance, excitement, energy, enthusiasm or even recklessness. Sometimes, I want to believe that they could under the influence of alcohol or a drug before coming up with such weird selfie ideas.

Sometimes grown up adults have also shown to have a similar fascination for photos just like their children. Recently heard the about the death of a business executive who was torn apart by a wild beast who had been his pet for some years. Well it turned out that the animal only liked to play but was not comfortable with photos.

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All I can say is that the rate at which people deliberately put safety, rationality, maturity all for social media glory is really alarming.

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I felt sad of how it turn out for them. Social media really gives us a variety of ways to gain popularity or fame. But the fact that some only sees it as an entertainment without knowing how hard to get such kind of fame, I think this really is alarming. Safety should be the outmost priority.

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2 years ago

That's true dear, we should always consider our safety first

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2 years ago

It is crazy and extreme how people neglect their own safety for mere photos. We need to be careful anyone can be the victim.

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2 years ago

Most of today's youth dont know the know what "careful " is. Lol

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2 years ago

Indeed, Very true

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2 years ago

It's crazy what some people do to get a selfie. They don't care to go further and do something extreme to impress their fans and followers. What do they get when something goes wrong like that? I think we should be careful about that.

Thank you for sharing this.

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2 years ago

Yeah, I agree to that. We should never throw caution in the wind just because we want others to see us a cool...you are welcome

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2 years ago

The same thing that happened to a young mom from China who also died from selfie. Well she's not just doing a selfie but a Live vedio when she accidentally fell while she was at her work place, her area was to high so she immediately died upon reaching the ground. Sometimes for the sake of views and fame they put their life in danger.

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2 years ago

It's really sad Gareth... All for social media glory.

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2 years ago

I could say bad things about how people have to be just for the sake of selfie but we should take lessons from them how not to take selfies.

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2 years ago

That's true. The thrill of the moment could make some one lose all sense of reasoning

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2 years ago

It's all about content these days.

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2 years ago

It's very dangerous to take selfies in critical areas and unexpected accidents might happen. especially those vloggers nowadays were always done this kind of tricks to catch the attentions of viewers.

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2 years ago

It doesn't make sense there, no matter the reason

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2 years ago

Omo! I've never thought of these. Cr*zy!🤣

Those people that such risks in photos are undoubtedly under influence or alcohol, drugs or possible demonic. Haba!

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2 years ago

Lol, you know oyinbo no get problem.. they have chop belleful that's why.

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2 years ago

The rate at which people are putting their life on the line in the process taking selfie is quite alarming , I cannot fathom what causing the toxicity.

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2 years ago

One of the ills of technology.. maybe it's a mania

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