On Easter Sunday, a man named Steve Stephens murdered another man in Cleveland, Ohio. You can check out an article about the specific incident here. The victim was a 74-year-old man, who Stevens fatally shot. Oh, and one other thing, this murder was broadcast live on Facebook.

Unfortunately, incidents such as these, where murders, suicides, and sexual assaults are streamed live on Facebook, are not necessarily rare. Other instances like these have been popping up over the past year, ever since the feature debuted in April of 2016.

Upon the launching of Facebook Live, Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a blog post, "Live is like having a TV camera in your pocket. Anyone with a phone now has the power to broadcast to anyone in the world. When you interact live, you feel connected in a more personal way. This is a big shift in how we communicate, and it's going to create new opportunities for people to come together."

Those who abuse the feature certainly seek to reach that large-scale audience. Although Facebook's intentions behind Facebook Live were good, consequences of the feature are what most of us, Zuckerberg included, never saw coming. Certainly, the feature is used for innocent purposes, such as vlogging and sharing experiences with family and friends. I even used Facebook Live recently as part of a class presentation. But too often, it seems, Facebook Live is being used to further exploit victims, and give ample attention to those who want it. In my opinion, the sharing of these videos perpetuates both of these consequences even further.

As if this content being posted in the first place wasn't detrimental enough, Facebook seems to be incredibly slow at making sure these videos are removed from the site. By the time content has been taken down, videos may have gone viral, further traumatizing the family members of the victims of these acts.

All of this prompts the question: are we too connected? Usually, these types of critiques come from millennial-hating, technology-despising individuals. But even I, a millennial who checks each of my four social media accounts dozens of times every day, question the ways in which we are connected to the entire world through social media.

Zuckerberg was correct in saying that Facebook Live would spawn a shift in how we communicate, but he never could have envisioned this crisis for social media, and for humanity.