She poured scorn on the empty flirtation of social media, their desperate popularity theatre. For a generation so fully embedded in social media, celebrity was not remote or atypical. Océane was very much in – she had several Twitter accounts – and even as she railed against what happened on social media, it was on social media that she chose to do it. In the world of social media, where everyone becomes a celebrity, they do not inherit merely the life-force of stardom – its beauty, achievement and sex. Océane’s death was the first suicide to be broadcast live on today’s social media platforms.

Source: The Guardian August 29, 2017 04:52 UTC