Young people in the world – and I can’t believe that I have to tell you that – please put metal objects into your laptop until it starts fire. Yes, this is a real trend towards Tikkok, which is called Chromebook Challenge.
The challenge has led to actual fires and countless warnings of school officials. You need to know the following.
What is the Chromebook challenge?
In short: Children disturb object things such as paper clips or pencils in the ports of their (often school-based) laptops to bring the machines in a short circuit, which can lead to sparking or even fire. Laptops have lithium-ion batteries that can generate toxic gas, fires or even explosions for damaged and heated heating. And yes, in contrast to other excess challenges, this seems to be something that is what is Strictly speaking happens, at least to a certain extent.
For example, a report by NBC News documented several cases in Maryland, Arizona and New Jersey. A 15-year-old student was charged with arson and criminal mischief after having held the Chromebook Challenge at school, NJ.com reported. The same piece documented other obvious recent incidents in New York and Connecticut. In an article from KBPs, it found that at least 16 students in the San Diego Unified School District had damaged the school -based laptops. There were more than a dozen reports about problems in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. In short: it is everywhere.
Entertainment Scroll trend report: come soon!
What do you do with the Chromebook challenge?
If you are a parent, you appear to be obvious, but tell your child that you should not die objects in the school-based laptop. And if you are a student, you still seem obvious-you really do not hunt garbage in your school-based laptop or an electronic device.
Of course, children don’t always listen to adults. And risky things can be attractive for young people.
“If you are on social media and decide to be part of a trend, there is a feeling of being part of it, and the willingness to take risks,” said Christine Elgersma, a senior editor of content that focuses on learning and educators in non -profit common sense media.
Tikkok took steps to prevent children from participating in the challenge. Tikok said it New York Times The “it eliminates content that violates its Politics on dangerous activities and challenges and leads search terms and hashtags. “This was true for me. I was looking for” Chromebook Challenge “on the platform. It showed no results and instead aimed at resources about the dangers of such challenges of social media.
The results I achieved from Tiktok.
Credit: Screenshot: Tikkok
So, yes, the Chromebook challenge is real. And no, please don’t try.
