The expert spoke about the new danger for teenagers on the "entrance"

A new dangerous trend, digital selfharm, associated with informal youth parties, is gaining popularity among teenagers — minors are posting unsightly content online with their participation, Elena Zamyshevskaya, a clinical psychologist and specialist in deviant adolescents, told Izvestia.

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This phenomenon is called "digital selfharm" — that is, a digital footprint is created that causes direct reputational harm to the author of the photo or video. The child records how he feels sick, or how he uses something forbidden, or injures himself, or behaves inappropriately. Then, usually in a state of altered consciousness, he puts it on the Internet. He laughs at it, doesn't hide it, doesn't think about the future consequences. But in the future, these materials can be used by users who have received this video or photo. Such things can have a terrifying delayed effect. No one knows how long it will take for this content to appear in the information field.

Informal teen gatherings, known as "slips" or "flats," have become a massive and extremely dangerous phenomenon that carries, in addition to digital self-harm, direct threats to the life and psychological health of young people, Zamyshevskaya said.

How illegal teen parties are organized and what dangers await children at the entrance — read in the Izvestia article.

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