48 Hour Challenge Facebook game-- kids going missing on purpose

[Gardener1850]

[h=3]48 Hour Challenge: Experts say kids go missing on purpose[/h]

It's a new game circulating on Facebook called the "48 Hour Challenge."

The challenge encourages kids go missing for two days and the goal is to get attention on social media. The more the child is mentioned as "missing" online, the more "points" they get.

"You can't take it lightly, even if you think it is something else or if their friend mentioned it's just a game. They're still missing and they're juveniles, and you still have to look for them and spend just as much time and money as it takes to find them," Floyd said.

Parents like Bill Price were shocked by the news of the challenge, explaining it would be a parent's worst nightmare.
"You're also taking away from the genuine cases of kids that may actually be missing and in danger, and instead law enforcement is going to be chasing their tails, so to speak, trying to find kids that are playing a game," Price said.

http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/36631721/48-hour-challenge-experts-say-kids-go-missing-on-purpose

[h=1]Family fear 11-year-old Little Mix fan who went missing after being put in isolation at school may have been taking part in dangerous '48-hour Challenge' Facebook 'game'[/h]

An 11-year-old girl who fled from isolation at school is feared to have taken part in a sick Facebook game encouraging children to vanish for two days.

Leah Taylor went missing from Marvell College in Hull, East Yorkshire, for more than 24 hours before being found the next afternoon with another girl aged 12.

She had fled the school before she could be picked up by her grandmother Lynn Weatherill, who was left her fearing the worst as she searched through the night.

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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...t-missing-isolation-school.html#ixzz4vyAauF2w
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[bluesneakers]

Hmmm.

72-Hour Challenge

An urban legend about the "Game of 72" became the "48-hour challenge," this time holding that teen participants awarded points for parental distress.

In 2015, anxious parents feared that the paracetamol challenge would inspire their children to overdose on over-the-counter painkillers; and in the same vein, the 72-hour challenge (also known as the “Game of 72&#8221 prompted concerns that kids were participating in a pointless and dangerous social media fad.

Most articles referenced an individual parent (not police) claiming teenagers were daring one another to “go missing for 48 hours.” References to the challenge were made primarily by social media users and news sites, and we were again unable to find any examples of teen participation on the platforms via which they purportedly “dared” each other to disappear.

Most October 2017 articles about the “game” linked back to the poorly supported BelfastLive item, and once again “warnings” were disseminated by parents and tabloids — not police.

 

[GuyfromCanada]

HARLOTTE, N.C (WKYC/WRBL) - A challenge circulating on social media is encouraging children to go missing on their own.

It's called the 48-Hour Challenge. Kids disappear, and to complete the challenge, they stay hidden for 48 hours. The talk of this actually happening has law enforcement concerned.

“When we talk about anybody going missing, it's very dangerous, and we immediately send out a ton of resources because every second counts. To find out a person was hiding, is a big issue," said Officer Johnathan Frisk with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Crime Prevention.

Parents and police are outraged over the '48-Hour Missing' challenge

 

[will4u]

it is in cases like this where i do not agree with the young offenders act,

if a kid does something like this on purpose and wastes the police time, money, and efforts to locate them, they should be charged with an offense....but instead they are returned to their parents and we basically just say "oh well, they are only a kid"...... so what do they learn from it?.....nothing, there are no consequences,

if you want to go missing, then lets make you go missing in juvenile jail for a few weeks, and then see if you learn something,

i often wonder why kids are seeking so much attention these days? and most of the attention they are seeking is from complete strangers on the internet....why?

it scares me to think that this generation will one day be in control of our countries and the world,

is it only me thinking that society in general is "dumbing down" as the years go by?....and if so why?

i get that technology has its uses, and places....however, in my opinion (generally speaking) the internet and social media has done more harm to society then it has done good,

 

[ms_x_to_the_m]

I am baffled by this nonsense. UGH!!!!

 

[Elisaa444]

Let me go ahead and ask my child if she has heard of this crap so I can make sure she understands what would happen if she pulled this kind of crap.

 

[Hatfield]

Let me go ahead and ask my child if she has heard of this crap so I can make sure she understands what would happen if she pulled this kind of crap.

I agree. When I was a kid, the wrath from my parents if I pulled this stunt would far exceed any law enforcement punishment.

The law would have been the least of my worries.

 

[JerseyGirl]

The families of Mary Tran Le and Tianny Granja are asking the public's help to find the girls. The girls' parents worry that they may be doing the 48 hour challenge, where kids have been staying off social media and hiding for 48 hours.

TX - TX - Mary Tran Le, 13, & Tianny Granja, 12, walking to school bus, Houston, 26 Feb 2019

 

[Jackielee09]

I’m sure I’ve done some really stupid things as a teen, most my parents never had a clue about. But to INTENTIONALLY cause worry to my parents and family by going missing ON PURPOSE.
Omg no way!! Grounded for life. Screamed at for months lol. Grounded for another lifetime. Let’s hope they find better ways to occupy their time.