Itโs that day again. Every year, on the last Wednesday of February we wear our Pink Shirts for Pink Shirt Day! Who would have thought that two teenage boys from Nova Scotia could start such a profound movement?! How did Pink Shirt Day begin? In 2007, David Shepherd and Travis Price witnessed a bullying incident…
Weโre announcing that Facebook and Instagram are founding members ofย Take It Down, a new platform designed to proactively prevent young peopleโs intimate images from spreading online. We supported the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in the development of Take It Down, building on the success ofย StopNCII, a platform we developed that helps…
Bullying used to be upsetting but contained.ย A victim would most often be verbally or physically bullied but once awayย from the โbullyโ, the victim would have a reprieve until perhaps the next interaction.ย Technology has resulted in a far worse form of bullying, known as โcyberbullyingโ which results in the victim never being able…
Preventing bullying begins at home when children are young, long before they go to school. Under the age of eight, a childโs mind is like a sponge because they donโt have the critical mind filter that adults have developed to determine what beliefs are acceptable or not. What they see, hear and feel goes straight…
