This is not a new phenomenon. When I visited the grand canyon (pre cell phone) every gift shop carried a book called "Over The Edge: Death in Grand Canyon". Mos

This is not a new phenomenon. When I visited the grand canyon (pre cell phone) every gift shop carried a book called "Over The Edge: Death in Grand Canyon". Most of the deaths were from people urinating into, gazing into, or walking too close to the edge but a whole chapter was dedicated to people who walk in while taking photographs. (Also good to know that apparently you can have a dizziness spell gazing into a deep void like that, a large chunk were people who stood on the edge, looked in, got dizzy and fell over) While it's definitely an issue, I'd caution against blaming technology.