Social Media of Live Streaming - Too Much Immediacy?

Oh God, I didn't even hear about the Live stream of the terrorist in France on the news in the US. That's absolutely horrific. I have actually never witnessed any negative videos on Facebook's Live Stream, thankfully. I dislike Twitter because the functionality is not the kind of social coverage I prefer to enjoy. I am more of an avid Instagram user until more recently when I started using Facebook more often because of the 360 degrees videos and the Live Streams. I also see news more often on Facebook than any other social media platform. Facebook is a great way to help dispel the negative connotations made on the Islamic community due to the great efforts on Daesh's part to make us look like blood-thirty mass-murderers. What I have seen from the Live Streams is an amazing opportunity taken by independent news outlets and volunteer/charity organizations abroad to show unbiased and unedited broadcasts. It's a great way to feel like you're getting the news in-the-moment and unscripted without political bias from all over the world. I definitely understand your point of view on the Live Steaming being a little too accessible in situations of "Live Crime," however, even in light of finding out this is something that is happening, I think perhaps it is better this way so that we actually know what is going on. I think it would make it harder for the government to lie or induce more paranoia about minorities if people have access to live streaming. As a scarf wearing Muslim woman, sometimes I wish I had something like this all of the time because I am often harassed in public by strangers, I've had people follow me in my car and men in pick-up trucks yell at me when I'm driving. I'm honestly always on edge in public and I would hope that if one of the islamophobes were to physically attack me in public someone would catch it on video. A sister of mine was physically attacked by a man in a theater for being Muslim and her only witness was her friend. Out of fear she stopped wearing her hijab. I hope that live stream videos catch more crimes so that people will live more fearfully of following the law.

As Albert Einstein said: “our technology has exceeded our humanity”.....and that’s really unfortunate.

Why do we always blame tools for the world's problems? Suicide, crime, and violence existed before live streaming. Are we no longer blaming tv and film for our bad behavior? Is social media now the new scapegoat? When will we stop focusing on symptoms and look at the real causes, start making ourselves more accountable for our behavior online and off?

Facebook rolls out updated suicide prevention tools for all users. Read the article https://bit.ly/28JRYH0

That's why I think they are bad tools, even if there are many positive sides. Just as for the death punishment, I'm against because I prefer not enjoying the positive sides to protect us from the negative ones. I prefer not taking the risk of having an innocent person killed. For live streaming tools, I prefer not taking the risk of seeing someone killed, tortured, injured, or filming herself before death, live. Yes indeed they can provide great opportunities but we cannot afford letting the bad use of these technologies! Can you imagine what this child has lived??? What about this girl live streaming her suicide, we can imagine that live streaming gave her the impression that some people were listening to her, for once. Maybe she would not have killed herself without this live window on Earth. We must stop these tools by a way or another, the bad consequences are too high. Techlikers, Stop being selfish!