From Live Birth, Shooting, To Rape: These Facebook Live Videos Will Shake You To Your Core

With the rise of video consumption, Facebook Lives have become popular on the world¡¯s largest online social destination. And they don¡¯t always make for PG-13 viewing! Take the case of three men in Sweden who¡¯ve been placed in judicial custody after being arrested in connection with the gang-rape of a woman -- which was reportedly live streamed on Facebook.

Here are some more shocking Facebook Lives which makes us contemplate the value system of an oversharing digital culture:

1) Child-birth streamed live on Facebook

A California dad was understandably excited when his wife was expected to deliver a baby, and in his exuberance he decided to record and broadcast the birth of his son through Facebook Live. In doing so, people around the world witnessed the miracle of childbirth in all its glory -- and also saw images of his wife, Sarah Dome, fighting immense labour pain and spread-eagled on the hospital bed, with an audience full of strangers. Was it the right thing to do?

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2) Doctor pops a cyst on Facebook Live

If you don¡¯t know what a cyst is, be ready to view some pretty graphic images of the human body in its most unflattering state. If you already know what a cyst is, would you really want to see a video of how it¡¯s popped surgically under a doctor¡¯s supervision through Facebook Live?!

3) Three men get shot in their cars while shooting Facebook Live

Three men were shot in Norfolk, Virginia, while they sat in their car smoking and singing rap songs. The triple shooting has now been recorded into evidence as one of the three friends had decided to stream their "good time" on Facebook Live.

4) Guy livestreams sexual encounter with girl on Facebook, mistakenly tags her dad

This is right up there in terms of the dumbest, most graphic Facebook Live video ever broadcasted by anyone. Apparently, a young, drunk couple decided to broadcast their sexual intercourse on Facebook Live. While they¡¯re busy in the act, the guy mistakenly tags the girl¡¯s father to the post, who then has to watch the scandalous act. What the heck were these two thinking, drunk or not?!

5) Wingsuit jumper accidentally Facebook Lives his own death

Armin Schmieder, a 28-year-old wingsuit jumper, wanted to give his fans a close look at his death-defying jump through a GoPro camera broadcasting a Facebook Live video. But immediately after he jumps, it all goes horribly wrong as the video ends with a loud shout. While the camera kept broadcasting for a while, Schmieder was reportedly killed in the accident, according to Swiss authorities.

Is no-holds-barred, oversharing our new digital normal?

It¡¯s fair to say that Facebook Live -- coupled with the fact that cellular data rates are cheapest they¡¯ve ever been right now in India -- has allowed common, mainstream users of the world¡¯s largest social platform to engage with their family and friends in real-time video broadcasts at the mere touch of a button. Just point your phone¡¯s camera at something -- even your face, if you don¡¯t find anything interesting -- press the Go Live button and start rolling!

In more ways than one, technology has a way of surprising us and not always in a good way. Facebook engages the most number of online users in the world, and some people get online only to access Facebook -- nothing else. I can imagine parents cringing at all of the above videos, making sure their kids didn¡¯t have ready access to them on Facebook -- but at the same time broad sweeping censorship isn¡¯t the answer either. With such all pervasive technology within everyone¡¯s reach, ultimately it¡¯s up to us -- not just Facebook -- to decide what sort of digital society we want to inhabit and to maybe redefine what¡¯s decent and what¡¯s not.