Girls Die Mysteriously Because of Social Media

South Africa. Nellie Tembe's funeral. She is said to have committed suicide 

by jumping out of a hotel window, naked.

Parents, friends and relatives cry at funerals. It’s more painful when parents look dazed, and don’t shed any tears.

This happens a lot when kids die because of how they ‘lived’ online, the current initiation platform. Parents are clueless about why sons and daughters are glued to phones, playing piano with their fingers.

Parents at the grave side look dazed because they don’t understand how their daughter died near a river @ night, naked. If that is not enough, they don’t understand how their daughter threw herself out of a hotel window, naked.

A good example is Nellie Tembe, a South African young woman who was a girlfriend to a rapper. She supposedly did just that, committed suicide without any clothes on. Even if she wanted to kill herself, parents don’t understand why she would do that, naked.

Parents look dazed at funerals because of two worlds.

1. They brought up kids with certain precautions. Do this my baby, don’t do that. It’s dangerous.

2. The other world is the online world, the more glamorous world  that begins with “I love you.” After that, girls are convinced to do anything for those 3 little words.

Parents look dazed at how their daughters die because they’re on the outside. Friends and age mates avoid parents’ eyes because they know exactly what is happening online, especially the rules of acceptance and projection.

Friends and age mates will never tell parents about online happiness and love, so daughters will continue to die mysteriously, naked. Don’t blame parents or the government. Daughters go online voluntarily to be in the news, to find 'love' and fame, to be trending, and they don’t tell parents.

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.