Common sense is slow to develop in humans, and many a time young
people will sit around throwing around silly ideas – and then go
on to act on the silliest of them all. And as if kids can’t come
up with enough stupidity all on their own, access to a world
wide web of thoughts feeds them more tricks and dares – YouTube
is great at that. The cinnamon challenge is nothing new, but I
heard about it from my kids only a couple of years ago. The
challenge: swallow a tablespoon of ground cinnamon in 60
seconds, without drinking fluids. Fail to swallow a spoonful of
cinnamon, and you might still have your moment of glory in this
viral sensation: more than 50,000 YouTube clips, one popular
clip with 30 million views (these numbers might be irrelevant by
the end of today) and it’s all over Twitter. Subjecting the
Cinnamon Challenge to a Google fight (fun site in which you can
battle two words or phrases against each other to see which is
more Internet popular) shows that cinnamon challenge with its 15
million search res