About this app
The Bullying Buddy mobile App Helps Students who are victims of Bullying report the incidents to their Parents, Teachers and the School Administrators.
The App classifies bullying into various types such as Physical Bullying, Cyber Bullying, Verbal Bullying, Sexual Bullying, Racial Bullying etc. It is estimated that Cyber bullying accounts for about 50% of the bullying incidents for school students across the US. Out of these, Facebook, Instagram and snapchat are major social media platforms where these bullying happens.
When a Student chooses cyber bullying, the bullying buddy app allows the students to sign in with their FB/Instagram/snapchat accounts to get the usernames of the account of children who are bullied.
This information is collected so that the App can send an automated email to the support group of the respective platforms or the parents and School administrators can write to the support groups of the platforms and provide the username of the person being bullied for the platforms to take against the posts that are offensive.
It also helps the school administrators to know, understand and analyze the Cyber bullying incidents.
Listed below or Features of the app:
1) Reporting incidents by Uploading Pictures/Videos
2) EBB (Emergency Bullying Button)
The EBB button is an emergency button that the user presses or voice activates to begin videoing their violation.
3) Text Alerts:
After uploads are made by the students about Bullying incidents, text alerts are immediately sent to the following people Parents, Teachers, school Administration and Bus Driver
4) Chat Rooms:
Parents, teachers, and students can use the chatroom platform to communicate with each other.
5) Bereavement Registry:
The bereavement registry is for individuals to upload information and photos about adolescents who commit suicide as a result of being bullied.
67 ) Information Station:
This section is where App user is educated about bullying and or the negative mental effects on individuals. The information station also provides empowerment tools and access to licensed clinical professionals.
7) Social Media:
In the APP the user can click on Facebook, Instagram, and Snap Chat. This function takes them directly to these social media platforms where they can report cyber bullying. The user can send screenshots, photos, video clips from their personal Bullying Buddy account regarding bullying incidents/violations. This will notify these social media platform administrations to pursue action at a faster pace.
8) Tracker:
The location tracker feature will track your child and student while they are in school or near school grounds. In the case of a bullying violation, your child will be tracked for 15 minutes after to reinforce their safety.
App Permissions
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows an application to record audio.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows applications to change Wi-Fi connectivity state.
Allows applications to connect to paired bluetooth devices.
Allows applications to discover and pair bluetooth devices.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
