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A boy was beaten by another student in a middle-school locker room in Lakeland, Florida, as classmates filmed the attack. Khaseen Morris was fatally stabbed in Long Island as other youths videotaped. Is social media to blame?
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Technology can amplify and skew behavior, but it doesn't replace the fundamentals of human psychology . In bystander situations, capturing events on phones for social media may shift attention and create more psychological distance between a bystander and a terrible event or it may reorient the bystander’s concerns from the event happening in front of them to the potential audience response. But social media didn't invent the tendency of people to help less as a crowd grows--there is a sense of diminished responsibility. The good news is that social media also shines light on problems of neglect, irresponsibility, abuse and victimization and has the potential to change the conversations in meaningful ways.