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Software Helps Stop Text Bullying

by Savitha on December 28, 2009 at 2:31 PM General Health News

A new software can be handy for parents to help their child protect himself from bullying via mobile phones.

The Bully Stop software, developed by Irish firm Virtual Mobile Application Development, allows parents to control who can call and text their children

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It allows parents to create a list of numbers that will be blocked by their child's phone, or an exclusive list of numbers that the phone can call and text and receive calls and texts from.

The anti-bullying software has a Call Log feature that can also record details of calls made and received by a phone, and the content of text messages sent to and from the phone, even if they are blocked.

hief executive Tony Cullen says it will help end bullying via mobile phones.

He says that child predators try to communicate with children via text rather than social networking sites such as Bebo, as mobile phones are more shielded from the watchful eye of their parents.

The software has been endorsed by the Trinity College Dublin University Anti-Bullying Centre, part of the European Safer Internet Programme.

However, Martin Cocker, executive director of New Zealand cyber watchdog Netsafe, says it is a "long bow to draw" to claim the software will prevent bullying on mobile phones, as cyber-bullying often occurs when a friendship or relationship turns sour.

"To limit someone's cellphone usage to their friends to avoid cyber-bulling goes against how most cyber bullying plays out," Stuff.co.nz quoted Cocker as saying.

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