How do you view the behavior of following trends on the Internet?

Following trends on the Internet is a very common phenomenon after the rapid development of the information age, because people in society generally have a herd mentality, and in addition, there are many people in China's huge group of netizens. I lack judgment and don’t know how to filter information, so I tend to follow the trend blindly before I understand the whole story. This kind of behavior is very irrational, and some keyboard warriors come from this, and even develop into cyber violence under certain conditions, which is very dangerous.

I remembered an incident I had seen. A girl named Lan Lan was suspected of stealing something by a shop owner. The shop owner posted a screenshot of the girl's surveillance video online. This incident aroused abuse and ridicule from netizens. He even used human flesh and disclosed quite private information such as the girl's address and school. This became the last straw for the girl, and the girl finally committed suicide. From this tragedy, we can see that the irresponsible and mindless people on the Internet who follow the trend and ridicule can sometimes hurt innocent people invisibly and cause serious damage to other people's lives and reputations, especially when it was popular on the Internet in the past few years. The various kinds of "human flesh" are really frightening, and there are many dangers in following the trend on the Internet.

Following trends on the Internet is a very immature behavior. Preconceived prejudices and blind obedience to other people’s opinions can easily make people draw wrong conclusions about online information. Therefore, everyone must learn to use their brains when surfing the Internet, learn to make correct judgments when encountering problems, and learn to seek the root cause of the matter instead of drawing random conclusions based on incomplete information, just like the example I just gave , many netizens follow the trend and abuse others based on the shop owner's words. Isn't it a sign of preconceived prejudice and lack of judgment? Although the Internet is virtual, the harm it can cause is real.