Do teens talk about suicide on the internet?
Yes–and this is both fortunate and unfortunate. Fortunately, there are many sites and chat rooms extending help to teens with suicidal thoughts (see the Help Center). Unfortunately, there are also sites and chatrooms which glorify suicide and discuss in detail potential methods, availability, and lethality. Newer research suggests that the “Werther Effect” extends to websites and chatrooms supporting positive attitudes toward suicide and providing explicit details about suicide methods.
