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Discord

Example of a User's Home Screen - Site Type VoIP communications, instant messaging, video-conferencing, content delivery, and social media Launch Date May 13, 2015 Status Active Product Line Social Networking Service Platform Desktop, Mobile, Browser Website https://discord.com/

Discord is a voice, video, and text communication service used by over a hundred million people to hang out and talk with their friends and communities .

History

In 2015, founders Jason Citron and Stan Vishnevskiy took it upon themselves to create a service that encouraged talking, helped form memories, and recreated the feeling of togetherness all found through gaming. Discord was started to solve a big problem: how to communicate with friends around the world while playing games online, in addition to making it easy to participate in conversation, hopping around text, voice and video to talk .

See also

• Anonymous Behavior in Virtual Environments
• Anonymous Online Presence and Harassment
• Cyberbullying
• Flaming
• Griefing
• Online Identity
• Social Networking
• Troll

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