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The list of what your smartphone cannot do seems to be getting shorter by the day. It can take photos and videos, tell you how to get somewhere, measure stuff, monitor your heart rate, help you talk to a foreigner, notify you if you need to bring your umbrella to work the next day, and
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Psychologist Glen Moriarty founded the emotional support platform 7 Cups in 2013 as a way to help people listen to each other's concerns, particularly when they had nowhere else to turn. Users are free to be as vulnerable as they wish, provided they obey the platform's community guidelines and terms of service.
The platform, which users can join at no cost, may seem like the perfect solution to
At a time when loneliness is a crisis, HearMe is Adam Lippin's calling. He founded the digital platform in 2018 as a place where a user can talk to someone online and "get something off your chest." The platform matches that user with a "peer listener" who's meant to be supportive. Both people can remain anonymous.
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As the recent Congressional hearing on online child sexual exploitation demonstrated, the manipulation and abuse perpetrated by bad actors against vulnerable teens on social and digital media platforms can be devastating.
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On July 16, 2018, a 14-year-old Texas girl sent explicit photos of herself to a 42-year-old man named Anthony Joseph Smith.
Smith, who lived in Butler, Pennsylvania, met the teen online, posing as a 15-year-old boy, and they began messaging frequently. Eventually, he tried to convince the teen to leave her parents and join him in Pennsylvania.
It's an increasingly familiar story. Online enticement
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