The latest internet craze drinking game needs to be banned by Facebook immediately. My daughter was “Neknominated” over the weekend but persuaded not to do it by her older brother. In case you haven’t heard of it the idea is that one or more of your “friends” creates a revolting drink for you made up of all manner of stuff – mostly alcoholic, but often with added cat hair, mud, sand, nail clippings, you name it, it gets chucked in and whizzed up and then the “Neknominee” has to drink it. All of it is captured on film and uploaded on to Facebook for much hilarity….
….and then two people die. Of over-drinking a lethal and vast cocktail of alcohol and so far Facebook have done nothing to ban what is essentially us adults having to watch their children kill themselves in idiotic ways.
So, Facebook, take some responsibility and stamp out the controversial drinking game immediately. You need to review your policy and take action accordingly – there will be further pressure from us parents and it won’t stop until you do something about it.
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Good luck with that. FB don’t even have a decent HELP service and rarely intervene with something going on on their pages. Unless of course you’re trying to reach more than 20 people and then they restrict your posts and suggest you pay for a “boost”.
The Nek thing isn’t happening over here; or at least isn’t in the news. What is it about the British drinking culture that it’s sunk to this? It’s bad enough that the Emergency Rooms are choc-a-bloc on weekend nights and people drink till they peuk, but this is ridiculous. I already have one friend whose son was apparently “lucky enough” to escape with only a few stitches. If one of my kids did this on my payroll there’d be serious consequences.
Sorry – do I give the impression that I feel strongly about this?
Ha ha You’ve lived in the US too long now – I feel strongly too but not sure what can be done about it – I tweeted about it last night and got quite a lot of criticism for suggesting it should be banned but honestly – encouraging kids to down way too many units in one go at that age (and some are as young as 15) is totally unacceptable. Lx