Connecticut, Europe Brief News – An 11-year-old girl from Connecticut committed suicide after developing a “severe addiction” to social media. According to sources, Selena Rodriguez’s mother sues social media companies Facebook and Snapchat.
Selena Rodriguez’s mother, Tammy Rodriguez, claims that the social media platforms are to be blamed for her daughter’s addiction to Facebook and Snapchat. They are why before she committed suicide in 2021.
Selena’s mother claims that her daughter experienced “serious emotional suffering which eventually resulted in physical impairment,” and all because of excessive use of social media.
Her family claims that the firms have failed to offer the necessary protection to protect their daughter from potentially hazardous and exploitative information, which caused her to take her own life.
Her family ended up filing a lawsuit against the 2 big firms. The lawsuit claims that “the platform’s potentially harmful features have contributed to her death in this case.”
Concerns about the effects of social media on youngsters are mounting, and this situation is no exception.
Before she died by suicide, Selena had been hospitalized twice in the emergency psychiatric treatment for depression and poor self-esteem in the two years leading up to her death.
She had come to be in this state, particularly after the covid-19 pandemic began, and so did her increased hours on social media.
According to her family, when Selena’s phone was forcibly taken from her, she became belligerent and abusive. She injured her elder sister Destiny’s nose in a fight as she was not in the right state of mind.
According to her Family, Selena seemed deeply troubled and became aggressive on the smallest of things.
These two social media platforms are accused of “consciously and deliberately” designing and marketing products that were damaging to a large proportion of their teenage users, according to the lawsuit filed on 21st January Friday in a federal courthouse in California.
The lawsuit also states that “[The] defendants purposely created an inviting problem for young children but failed to offer necessary protections against the adverse impacts they knew were happening on their completely owned and controlled digital premises.”
After the lawsuit made waves of news around the globe, the CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, sent a public post on his Facebook page saying that while he can’t make any comments since it is a legal matter, he cares deeply for the safety and mental wellbeing of the users before anything.
