People on MySpace censored themselves after 9/11? I didn't know middle and high schoolers were so politically aware.
> In the months and years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, many of us censored what we spoke about on social media or what we searched on the internet.
from the TFA.
i.e. Which those "many of us" were, and what "social media" were they censoring themselves in around 9/11?
Since
(a) the only successful website that one would classify as "social media" back then was MySpace, and
(b) it was mostly for teens,
(the parent asks) if people on social media back then censored themselves, does that mean that teens of MySpace censored themselves? Either the article is BS on that part, or teens at the time quite politically aware....
By 2001, there were these, blogs, and aggregators such as Slashdot, as well as many online news and magazine sites, especially in the infotech space. So an active community. The post-9/11 era extended well through the aughts.
GeoCities was one of the Internet's earliest social networking websites, appearing in November 1994, followed by Classmates in December 1995, Six Degrees in May 1997, Open Diary in October 1998, LiveJournal in April 1999, Ryze in October 2001, Friendster in March 2002, LinkedIn in May 2003, hi5 in June 2003, MySpace in August 2003, Orkut in January 2004, Facebook in February 2004, Yahoo! 360° in March 2005, Bebo in July 2005, Twitter in July 2006, Tumblr in February 2007, and Google+ in July 2011.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=social+media&y...