By Gayle MacDonald
A new online drinking game titled Neknominations has
surfaced all over the world. The online game involves males and females posting
videos on social networks of themselves chugging alcohol in unexpected places
while doing some sort of outrageous act. The trend started up in Canadian universities
and is growing rapidly in popularity. How the game works is you are nominated
by a friend or peer and you must come up with your own clever and entertaining video
of you chugging alcohol and post it on a social network, once complete you must
tag one of your friends/peers in the caption and they must do their own Neknomination.
Unfortunately, high school and university students do not understand the consequences
that can happen due to playing the game, and two students have already died
this past week in Ireland. Universities such as Queens and Western are starting
up campaigns to encourage students to instead make Nicenominations, in which
you do a random act of kindness instead of chug alcohol.
I think that what Queens and Western is doing is a
good idea and is very important to make sure Neknominations are a thing of the
past. These Neknominations have no upside and will ruin the life of many, many
students. If they are not physically injured by what they do in the video,
which is not unlikely, they will screw themselves up for the rest of their
life. When they are out of school and go out to look for a job, what is the
interviewer going to say when he/she finds their Neknomination video from
university? I can tell you, “Sorry the position has been filled.” These videos
will never be deleted as with all items posted to social media these days, and
it is just bad news to post a Neknomination. I hope they die down soon and that
all of these kids do their best to delete these videos off of all social
networks.
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