What do you mean by social death?

Social death, that is, social death, often refers to those embarrassing and humiliating things that are known and happened in the environment of acquaintances, which makes them almost ashamed to meet people in this circle. In serious cases, they are ashamed to go out to meet people.

It is generally believed that "social death" first appeared in the book Slavery and Social Death written by American sociologist Orlando Patterson 1985.

The development of the word "social death";

With the progress of Internet, all kinds of social news and events spread very fast. Many people spread things around them through the internet, and the authenticity and time authenticity of some events have not been confirmed, leading to the "social death" of some parties. Before the truth was confirmed, some parties were misunderstood because of the spread of the internet, so the word "social death" frequently appeared in everyone's field of vision.