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"The media tends to popularize videos and social media posts to inform the country of the rising trouble, which may create a popular appeal to the young and immature minds of teenagers. Social media could provide higher risks with the promotion of different kinds of pro-suicidal sites, message boards, chat rooms, and forums. Also, the Internet not only reports suicide incidents but documents suicide methods (for example, suicide pacts, an agreement between two or more people to commit suicide at a particular time and often by the same lethal means). The role the Internet plays, particularly social media, in suicide-related behavior is a topic of growing interest."

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Social Media’s Influence on Suicide

Oftentimes, the media may portray suicidal behavior or language which can potentially influence people to act on these suicidal tendencies. Such examples may include news reports of actual suicides that have occured, television shows and films that reenact suicides or such behavior, suicidal readings, etcetera. Although this may affect all ages, younger individuals are more commonly impacted or influenced by this. An additional problem that the media fails to include regarding suicide is that they often extenuate the causes leading up to suicide. The main cause of suicide, mental illness, is the most untouched subject in the media. This is a vital issue that raised the discussion of how to fix it.

There lies the proposal to present guidelines for media that restrict what can be produced about suicide. Suggestions include refraining from disposing any dramatic displays of suicide, as well as promoting facts and emphasizing suicide’s main cause: mental health. Some concerns from the media regarding such ideas include a possible violation of freedom of speech, which is something to take into consideration. The most desirable approach to ensuring proper suicide prevention on social media would be to adequately train people with media professions about what to and what not to publish regarding this topic.

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Social media has been a part of the internet that has expanded throughout the years. There are a variety of sources that are accessible to the public in various forms. Sites include Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Google+, Snapchat, TikTok, VSCO, and more. While these platforms intend to allow people to virtually connect with others, it has created a toxic environment that leads to cyberbullying, insecurity, emotional distress, and ultimately suicide.

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The social cognitive theory plays a vital role in suicide attempts influenced through social media. This theory is demonstrated when one is influenced by what they see through various processes that form into modeled behaviors. This can be shown when people post their suicide attempts online or promote suicidal behavior in general.

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Social Media Risks

Social media is a relatively new phenomenon that has swept the world during the past decade. There is substantial evidence that the Internet and social media can influence suicide-related behavior. Such evidence includes an increase of exposure to graphic content as well as the opportunity for cyberbullying to occur. Over the past ten years, cyberbullying has increasingly led to self-harm and suicide. An April 2020 study done by The National Center for Health Statistics (NPHC) revealed that suicide is the second leading cause of death of US citizens ages 10-34. Although this study does not directly state the cause of these suicides, it can be alluded that cyberbullying was a potential cause. NPHC had previously done a study in 2018 that showed how adolescents under the age of 25 that were victims of cyberbullying became twice as likely to commit suicide or cause various forms of self harm. They even showed that younger males were more likely than females to commit suicide. Overall, teen suicide rates have increased within the past decade. This is a highly considerable public health problem, having over 40,000 suicide deaths in the United States and nearly one million suicide deaths worldwide occur yearly.

One risk that has been more prevalent over the years has been suicide challenges from different "games" such as the Momo Challenge, The Blue Whale Challenge, and others that trick the individuals into committing suicide after performing various acts.

Further social media platforms have additionally impacted suicides around the world as well as self harm habits.