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Have your say on this week’s hot Facebook topic

Join the conversation with the hot topic on Facebook this week.

The hot topic of conversation on the Germiston City News Facebook page for the week, September 16 to 21, was:

Story – Blue Whale suicide game hits Joburg – 173 shares

A warning has been issued by a trauma counsellor after the Blue Whale game recently surfaced in Gauteng. The warning followed after a Facebook post went viral by a mother in Johannesburg, who discovered her son had been playing the Blue Whale game. The Blue Whale suicide game is an online application that encourages people to kill themselves.

You said:

* Sonia Thomas: “Goodness gracious what next?”

* Corleen Roberts: “This is frightening!”

* Natacha Fegen: “My child is only nine years old and even though he doesn’t have access to the internet to get this game I still had a talk with him. There is pressure from friends even at the tender age of nine.”

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