The Daily Beast: Does Twitter Prevent Suicide?

Journalist Benjamin Popper interviewed Christopher Gandin Le for a smart and well-researched article about suicide and social media, specifically the phenomenon of Twitter suicide threats and the community response to those.

This kind of behavior is the key to understanding the power of social media, said Christopher Gandin Le, one of the country’s top thinkers on the intersection of suicide and social media. “There is a culture of sharing your feelings on sites like Facebook and Twitter that I think plays an important role in suicide prevention,” he said. “Kids today are experts on their friends, what they’re doing and how they're feeling at every moment.”