Social Media and Suicide

Luxton, D. D., June, J. D., & Fairall, J. M. (2012). Social media and suicide: A public health perspective. American Journal Of Public Health, 102(Suppl 2), S195-S200. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2011.300608

In the article "Social Media and Suicide: A Public Health Perspective" by Luxton, June, and Fairall explains how social media can be a high risk of suicide, but can be a source of suicide behavior prevention. Many research where done, but there where no sufficient evidence that stated that social medias can cause suicide behavior. Neither the less online access is an attainable information to suicide. Even though it's an accessible access organization now have created a more restrictive web search on suicide information. Studies showed that social media does have a high risk of cyber bullying and cyber harassment. In Hinduja and Patchin research showed that 2000 middle school student are being bullied via social media website and that more than twice of the victim commit suicide. In conclusion social media has both negative and positive aspect on suicide behaviors.