Is Internet doing the adolescents make things more idiot than ever?
Some specialists in children it worries to them that it is. The adolescents always have been prone to take idiot risks (thanks partly to the prefrontal crust of the brain, that the decision making regulates and still he is developing in the adolescence). But with the sprouting of sites like YouTube and Facebook, these experts say, the adolescents face the virtual pressure of group now to emulate all type of dangerous maneuvers and she dares, and to publish them in line.
There are data no to demonstrate if the imprudence Web of inspiration is in fact the increase or if the adolescents are such taking risks that the previous generations - and finding hardly easier to document the stupid feats so that all see.
Nevertheless, some doctors say that at least, the Internet is causing to the pawl adolescents until the danger level. For weeks, the Dr. E. Hani Mansour, a specialist in burns in Livingston, New Jersey, treated an adolescent who severely had been burned after igniting fireworks. Accident was not fireworks of your father. The boy had filled the bathtub of the house with fireworks, covered his body with clothes with protection and to settle down a video camera to record the event. Explosion resulting, that the adolescent later said that she had hoped to publish in YouTube, has created a fire ball that left to the boy with burns in a 14 percent of its body.
“The boys have been trying to be scientists of rockets during many years”, said doctor Mansour, burned medical director of the center of in the St. Medical Barnabas Center. “But now we are seeing in one more a form behaved shamelessly. They do it with the purpose of filming it. “
In fact, unlike its homologous ones of the past, these young victims of burns all the intention to create a fire spectacle, and often to take the basic precautions that its skin covers.