Are Social Media Fads Fueling Risky Behavior?

There's an interesting story reported by CBC news today showing how social media may be fueling risky behavior, from the cinnamon challenge to car surfing.    

  
Some of these challenges are downright stupid and dangerous.

The latest, Game of 72, challenges teens to find ways to disappear for three days. In the cinnamon challenge shown on YouTube, participants swallow a spoonful of ground cinnamon in 60 seconds without water. Then there is the salt and ice challenge. A Pittsburgh boy "burned" a cross into his back in 2012 by holding ice to a layer of salt on top of his skin. Last October, the U.S. Forest Service issued a plea to tourists to leave the bears alone. Wildlife officials singled out visitors to South Lake Tahoe in California after snapshots of young people posing with grizzly bears in the background surfaced on Instagram and Twitter (See picture).