The following report is by Peta Pixel, first published in November, 2022:
Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed the number of people who died from accidental falls over the past year. Some 3,747 people plunged to their deaths with 20 of them happening off cliffs.
The Herald Sun reports that this is the highest number of accidental falls from cliffs since the organization began tallying the data in 2012.
The data has raised fears that the rise of selfies is behind the trend in the country with more people risking their lives to take daredevil photographs for social media.
SEE: “Vaxxies:” Vaccine Selfies Flooding Social Media
A study by the iO Foundation found 379 people were killed while taking selfies around the world between January 2008 and July 2021.
Australia ranked the fifth highest with 15 fatalities with India listed at the top with 100 deaths and the US second with 39 deaths.
The researchers of the iO report also compiled data on the 10 most dangerous places on earth to take a selfie. These spots include the Glen Canyon in the U.S., Niagara Falls in Canada, Charco del Burro in Colombia, as well as the Taj Mahal and Doodhpathri Valley in India.
Dr. Rachael Murrihy, director of the Kidman Centre at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia, warned that social media was a driving force behind the country’s increase in deaths.
Murrihy tells The Herald Sun,
It is a normal part of adolescence to take risks and they take risks because that helps them to form their identity and figure out who they are.
Unfortunately, TikTok provides a forum for them to do this but it’s not the healthy risk-taking we would like to see in teenagers.
In December 2020, Rosy Loomba fell to her death while she was taking a photo with her husband at a popular selfie spot in Grampian National Park in Victoria, Australia.
According to 7news, the couple had decided to climb the safety fence to take a selfie on the rock ledge. On their way back from the ledge, Loomba lost her balance and fell thirty meters.
At the time of Loomba’s death, 30 other people waiting to take their photos. A coroner said it was common for people to climb over the “easily scaled” wire fence to take photos on the rock ledge.
PetaPixel previously reported on a couple who tragically fell to their deaths after taking a selfie at a Yosemite cliff in California, days after an engagement photograph captured at the same spot went viral on social media.
SEE: Teenage Girls Are Developing Tics And Doctors Are Finding TikTok Is The Cause
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[1] This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. [2] For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, [3] Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, [4] Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; [5] Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 2 Timothy 3:1-5
This is a perfect example of the vanity-driven culture that is promoted, rewarded, and celebrated; where people are literally living on the edge just so they can get likes from people they don’t even know, and artificial clicks from bots, too, in their artificial life that they portray. It’s just so sad.
Remember life when we did not have smartphones, social media, internet, and so forth? I do, and life was so much better then. Granted, the internet has had its benefits of course (such as I what I do now), but I think you know what I am getting at…
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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They take these daredevil selfies as a once in a lifetime experience, and sometimes it winds up the end of a lifetime.
TikTok has also played a role in this and China is becoming more and more motivated.
This is a GOOD thing. The more that go over the edge, the fewer lunatics there are that are destroying freedom. Leftists and others devoid of critical thinking are all narcissists. Send over some more as we cleanse the earth of STUPID
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I remember starting to post photos of myself and my vegan food on instagram for a while. It gave me so much anxiety I deleted it after two weeks. It’s obsessive and controlling. Never doing it again!