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The Girl Who Snapchatted Her Severed Finger

from Second Life (with Alex Steinberg) · #36

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4 min

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Alex recounts a high schooler who ripped her finger off jumping a fence, then spent nearly an hour Snapchatting and texting about it, waiting for a friend, and taking an Uber to the hospital instead of calling an ambulance, losing the finger permanently.

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  • 35:50Girl documented her severed finger on social media while getting to the hospital.
  • 36:10Tim describes photo of her disembodied finger sitting on her leg inside the Uber.
  • 36:20Social media has become a disease and is legitimately hazardous to people's health.
  • 36:58The need to Snapchat and photograph yourself in an Uber represents a genuine sickness.
  • 37:11Hospital told her she waited way too long—should have called an ambulance instead of Ubering.
  • 37:35Her tweet caption reads 'what if advice don't hop a fence with a ring on' and got thousands of likes.
  • 37:57She doesn't seem upset about losing her finger and got social media engagement out of it.
  • 38:29Tim sees this as indicative of kids grown up in social media culture with a genuine illness.
  • 39:17Every kid has been sold the idea that they're interesting and important, and they're not.
  • 39:42She probably took an Uber Eats, meaning someone might get a finger in their food.
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