{"id":8997,"date":"2017-01-27T03:45:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T03:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=8997"},"modified":"2017-01-27T03:45:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T03:45:30","slug":"another-teenager-has-tragically-taken-her-own-life-on-facebook-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=8997","title":{"rendered":"Another Teenager Has Tragically Taken Her Own Life On Facebook Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_18_0_4_1485488476903_2902\" style='margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.3px; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.5px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;'>Live video streaming is supposed to be a new tool that enables people to share their lives in real time with their friends and family. But, lately, the social media function has become a tragic tool to document the death of teens.<\/p>\n<p style='margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.3px; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.5px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;'>14-year-old Nakia Venant of Miami Gardens, Florida, is one of the latest victims of this terrible trend. According to the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><em>Miami Herald<\/em>, Venant hanged herself in the bathroom of her foster home on Facebook Live on January 22. At least one of her friends watched the live feed, which ended at around 3:03 a.m., and called the police. Efforts to revive her were unsuccessful, and she was transferred to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p style='margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.3px; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.5px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;'>Venant, who called herself HotHead Nikee on her social media channels, was described by her friend Gerta Telfort as &#8220;smart academically, loved to smile and [had] lots of charisma,&#8221; with aspirations of one day writing a book on her life. Her<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>Facebook page, where she frequently posted, is now a memorial page.<\/p>\n<p style='margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.3px; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.5px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;'>Both the Miami Gardens Police Department and Florida Department of Children &amp; Families are reportedly investigating this incident.<\/p>\n<p style='margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.3px; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.5px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;'>The video has since been taken down,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>as it violates Facebook&#8217;s policy, which prohibits &#8220;content that promotes or encourages suicide or any other type of self-injury, including self-mutilation and eating disorders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style='margin: 0px 0px 1.1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.3px; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.5px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;'>&#8220;The vast majority of people are using Facebook Live to come together and share experiences in the moment with their friends and family,&#8221; Christine Chen, a Facebook spokesperson, told<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><em>The Miami Herald<\/em>. &#8220;But if someone does violate our Community Standards while using Live, we want to interrupt these streams as quickly as possible when they&#8217;re reported to us. So we&#8217;ve given people a way to report violations during a live broadcast. We also suggest people contact law enforcement or emergency services themselves if they become aware of something where the authorities can help.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"remaining-body&#10;                        &#10;                        &#10;                            &#10;                            &#10;                        &#10;                        \" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; line-height: 1.5; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.3px; font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.5px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;'>\n<p>Despite these attempts, Venant&#8217;s tragic livestream suicide is the second such tragedy in less than a month.<\/p>\n<p>On December 30, 2016, 12-year-old<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>Katelyn Nicole Davis hanged herself<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>while streaming live on the website Live. me. It took<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>two weeks for Facebook to remove the video.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you or someone you know are having suicidal thoughts and need help, please, please tell a parent, teacher, doctor, or other trusted adult, and find more helpful resources<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>here.<\/em><em>You are not alone!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live video streaming is supposed to be a new tool that enables people to share their lives in real time with their friends and family. 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