People with purpose not as affected by a ‘like’
Whether you get excited or adopt a no-big-deal attitude when one of your posts goes viral depends on how much of a sense of purpose you have.
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‘D. Rose’ guilty of murder in Chicago
A murderer of a Chicago teenager was convicted and faces up to 45 years. The victim was trying to make life better in his community.
Facebook makes forgetting less frequent
Researchers at Cornell University have found that posting an event in your life on social media…
Md. teens charged in murder of Va. girl, 13
The murder of a 13-year-old liver transplant patient from Virginia following what may have been a social media hook-up leaves Va. Tech reeling.
On Facebook’s ban of private gun sales
The announcement Friday to ban the private sale of guns could help the government enforce existing laws requiring background checks.
Yik Yak back in the news on college campuses
Women's and civil-rights groups want colleges to protect students from sexual harassment via anonymous social-media sites like Yik Yak.
Sequoia Capital's Yik Yak investment: $62 mil
The cause of cyberbullying by cowards spewing hate speech at others just got an infusion of millions of dollars. Wonderful.
Social media posts can escalate into cyberbullying
Cyberbullying requires new tools on the part of schools, and it may also require a shift in our attitudes about where schools' responsibility begins and ends.
Florida girl, 12, commits suicide after cyberbullying
The suicide of a Florida girl, following about a year of cyberbullying, should teach us that we need to put an end to it. Now.
Bullies can remain anonymous on Ask.fm
A social website, Ask.fm. has sprung up in usage over the past few months among American teenagers, and it has some not-so-hidden dangers.