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Megan Taylor Meier (November 6, 1992 – October 17, 2006) was an American teenager who died by suicide by hanging herself three weeks before her 14th birthday. A year later, Meier's parents prompted an investigation into the matter and her suicide was attributed to cyberbullying through the social networking website MySpace.
Online mourning describes grieving on the internet. It represents not a revolution in mourning, but rather a shift in the medium mourners utilize to express their grief and memorialize the deceased.
Chris used to run a marketing agency called ResponseBase, which he sold to a company called eUniverse where he met Brad and Tom. Around that time, Friendster, the true predecessor of “social ...
Carly Ryan lived in Stirling, South Australia with her mother, Sonya Ryan. Approximately 18 months before her death, while using MySpace (and Vampirefreaks.com), she befriended "Brandon Kane", [5] a user who claimed to be a Texas-born teen living in Melbourne who was a musician and had similar taste in music as Ryan.
Myspace (formerly stylized as MySpace; also myspace; and sometimes my␣, with an elongated open box symbol) is a social networking service based in the United States. . Launched on August 1, 2003, it was the first social network to reach a global audience and had a significant influence on technology, pop culture and mu
Anderson's father was an entrepreneur. [5] As a teenager at San Pasqual High in Escondido, California, Anderson was a computer hacker under the pseudonym "Lord Flathead" (friends with Bill Landreth), and prompted a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raid after he hacked into a computer system at Chase Manhattan Bank.
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Fifty years ago today, on the stage of London’s Hammersmith Odeon, David Bowie killed Ziggy Stardust. Of course, it was not a conventional murder: Ziggy was Bowie’s creation, a character he ...