Monday, June 13, 2011

Bully Block App

Technology is getting more advanced these days. Every day you may hear someone or another say “there is an app for that”. They have made an application for the Droid phones now that is called the “Bully Block App”. This application is designed to help prevent bullying. It allows you to block phone numbers that are bullying you. Along with being able to capture inappropriate texts messages, picture messages, and even phone conversations from bullies. It has a recorder that can secretly record threatening messages and conversations. It will even block those who may use unknown numbers and private numbers for bullying purposes. It saves your threatening conversations and messages all to your SD card so that you can instantly contact and send copies to the authorities, office supervisors, parents, or teachers. I think that this application for phones will help many teens in the long run. The only real downfall that I see with it is that so far it is only for the Droid phones. It has not been made available for other types of phones. So any teen that is being bullied and wants to use this application, first needs to get a droid phone. It does provide a form of safety for more teens than none though. Many teens now-a-days do have cell phones and are constantly upgrading their phones. In the past there was not an application that students, teens, or just people in general could use to avoid bullies. With technology advances it has made it possible for bullies to bully others anonymously but with this application it will help to stop this from happening. I would highly suggest an application like this for teens that are being bullied, especially if they are just being cyber-bullied. I would also suggest trying to find something like this for their computers. It seems to me like this is a way to help stop bullying and if it really works then that makes this application that much better.

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