-
Myspace Founded
Myspace (originally: MySpace) is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. It is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. -
Facebook Founded
Facebook is an online social networking service headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg with his Harvard College roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The founders had initially limited the website's membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. -
Twitter Founded
Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets". Registered users can read and post tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. -
Facebook Opened to The Public
On September 26, 2006, Facebook was opened to everyone at least 13 years old with a valid email address. -
States Push for Cyberbullying Controls
Article written by Abbott Kaloff which was published on February 2, 2008 -- Article is towards the general public informing about state laws changing due to bullying. States that bullying has gained national attention. -
Facebook Reaches 100 million Users
We hit a big milestone today -- 100 million people around the world are now using Facebook. This is a really gratifying moment for us because it means a lot that you have decided that Facebook is a good, trusted place for you to share your lives with your friends. So we just wanted to take this moment to say, "thanks." -
Instagram Founded
Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, and share them on a variety of social networking platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr. -
School and Law Enforcement Efforts to Combat Cyberbulying
This article is written by Daniel M. Stewart and Eric J. Fristch published in January of 2011 -- The article illustrates the innovations of new technology and the responsibility within that must be taken to prevent cyberbullying. -
The Means to Justify the End: Combating Cyber Harassment in Sociial Media
This article is provided by Tom van Laer and was published on July 17, 2013 -- This article demonstrates the basic knowledge of cyberbullying. It illustrates the the negative affects and victims. -
Bullying Prevention and Social Justice
This article is provided by Megan Polanin which was published on October 4, 2013 -- Informs the factors that start bullying which are mostly based on appearance and location. Also, the article ilustrates the type of people that could be capable of becoming the bully. -
Enlisting Bystanders to Fight Online Abuse
This article was written by THE EDITORIAL BOARD which was published on May 1, 2015 -- The article informs the reader about how the help of bystanders can help prevent cyberbullying. Twitter is shown as an example which says they were too late when looking into cyberbullying cases, making them lose core user after core user as a result. -
October Known as Bullying Prevention Awareness Month
This month, across the world, from New York to New Zealand, thousands of schools, communities, organizations, and individuals will come together to release new resources, campaigns, and efforts aimed at raising awareness for bullying prevention. -
Big Brother as Parent: Using Surveillance to Patrol Student's Internet Speech
This article is provided by Catherine E. Mendola which was published in April of 2015 -- This article illustrates how students use their online speech in negative ways and the problem of parents not keeping up with the new innovations of technology to keep track of their kids.