(PLO)- Negative groups have from a few thousand to tens of thousands of members, the number of articles sharing each day of the group is nearly hundreds of posts.
Currently, on social networks, there are many negative groups with numbers ranging from a few thousand to several tens of thousands of members/groups. The number of posts shared per day by each group is nearly a hundred posts. Especially, within just 1 hour, PV recorded more than 10 articles with many contents shared by members.
Join the group to share
As noted by the PV at the “Society of people …” and a number of similar groups, many participants have the same thing in common that they want to be liberated from life in one way or another. Many posts with negative content in the group make readers if they are in regular contact, sooner or later it is easy to sink into negative thoughts.
Mr. TMT, a member of the group “Society of people…”, said that the original purpose of the group was to share, relieve and encourage cases of depression, intending to end his life. However, currently on the forum of this group there have been many posts with negative content, very bad influence on other members.
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Talking to PV, Mr. K, who is currently a final year student and a member of this group, said that he himself had a long time living with an anxiety disorder. The manifestation of this disorder is that he always thinks negative thoughts, even he often loses sleep because he is worried about possible problems in the future such as his failure to find a job, his parents are disappointed in him… At times like that, he often torments himself in the past and so he gets caught up in the endless stream of negative thoughts.
“Over a year stuck with an anxiety disorder, a series of days where I couldn’t find the motivation to move on. Therefore, I choose to join a group to find people who are in the same situation and hope to be able to share,” said Mr. K.
According to PV’s research, on the forums of these groups, there are many cases where the people who post the articles are students who are studying in middle and high school. In addition to the pressure stories with the expectation of grades and school results from the family, the contradictions seem to be very small in daily life.
For example, a post by H, an 8th grader, on a group sharing about being isolated by classmates. The cause of isolation is because H posted a status line on his personal page with offensive content, related to some of his classmates. As a result, every day at H school, he had to meet the unpleasant eyes and alienating actions of his friends.
“I have thought about killing myself many times, but I am afraid that my parents will cry a lot because of me” – an excerpt of the status line H shared his mood on a group.
Bad comments, push things further
Contrary to the expectation of receiving sympathy and sharing from strangers, many negative comments from other members on the forum pushed things too far. Under a post of a member sharing pressure from family scores on a group, there are negative comments such as “die”, “you deserve to die”, “so imitate XXX jump from the floor”, “death is the best”… Dangerous comments like these are easy to push the poster to have foolish thoughts at the moment.
Similarly, a member of the group posted goodbye to everyone with the image of a pack of high-dose sleeping pills because of a sad story, instead of receiving dissuade, many people came in to ask questions about where to buy sleeping pills, or more incited them by saying things like “this is not enough, five packs or more …”.
Explaining how negative groups attract many young people, Assoc. Prof-Dr. Tran Thanh Nam, Dean of the Faculty of Educational Sciences (University of Education – Vietnam National University, Hanoi), said that sometimes we see a part of young people with a view of themselves as worthless, a pessimistic view of the world, and unable to connect with their parents. The reason is because they lack an environment to exchange and exchange, what they say, ordinary people find it too negative, so they do not accept and share it with them, including their parents. Because of this fact, they have to find some group to find sympathy. Those young people mostly have resentful feelings towards their parents, resentful feelings towards life and themselves. And they will find ways to share this resentment by joining groups.
At first, joining the above groups can be to relieve the mind, but then who knows people with negative ideas who sit together for a long time have crazy ideas. Gradually, these groups become dangerous, causing harm to others, inciting violations of the law.
From the above stories, it can be seen that negative groups on social networks are potentially dangerous for young people. It is time for the functional sectors to step in strongly, drastically and more often to prevent these negative groups from arising.
How to be immune to negative information?
The fact is that the authorities are always trying to access and prevent harmful information from the Internet, social networks, especially on Facebook.
In addition, the number of groups like the above is quite large, in just a few weeks, the negative groups have gathered several hundred to several thousand members, so the control needs a lot of human resources, and a team of professionals and good technical skills.
The general trend of Facebook users is to easily follow the crowd, so we must have a strong mind when accessing information on social networks.
Internet and social network users must equip themselves with immunity to negative information, strong internal force, healthy psychology, and stability so as not to follow the negative emotions, attitudes and actions of members from negative groups. Better yet, if invited or added to such groups, users should leave the group quickly to avoid spreading negative emotions.
In order to contribute to improving the health and safety of social network users, each person should say no to writing, sharing, or spreading information that is too negative or inflammatory. If possible, it is advisable to collect harmful and misleading information from groups and take actions and objections, as well as report it to the network security agency and the authorities for early resolution.
MSc Psychology PEAR MINH HUYEN
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