Talk to.fm, the questionable social media website associated with significant situations of cyberbullying and teen suicides, has been bought by IAC, the master of Inquire, Tinder and Vimeo.
Like consult, Talk to.fm allows for question-and-answer exchanges between customers. The service was innocent plenty of, but has been mistreated over the past by teenagers sending rude messages together anonymously.
Just the previous year, 14-year-old Hannah Mccartney from Leicestershire made self-destruction after receiving some messages advising the girl the to “drink bleach”, “go collect cancer tumors” and “go die”.
Ciara Pugsley, 15, was realized dead in woodland near them house in Ireland in 2013, after becoming the mark of rude information in the consult.fm site.
IAC said that the acquiring lets Enquire to draw on question.fm’s big mobile-focused sociable system – a market portion and program just where inquire has-been planning to spread. Continue reading “Tinder holder IAC has got social media inquire.fm, promising to generate a less dangerous environment for teenagers to communicate openly”