Why community is the only real suicide safety mechanism on social media
Trigger Warning: This article discusses suicide
The chances are you have seen posts relating to suicidal thoughts or plans on a social media platform before. Posts such as viral live feeds of people attempting suicide show clear intent and become heavily discussed across the world for a moment in time. We see this phenomenon pop up on Facebook, Snapchat, and TikTok periodically over time. These posts are hard to miss because of how confronting and raw the content is, and how