high school kids – PSafe Blog https://www.psafe.com/en/blog Articles and news about Mobile Security, Android, Apps, Social Media and Technology in general. Thu, 19 Jan 2023 14:49:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://www.psafe.com/en/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-psafe_blog_purple-shield-32x32.png high school kids – PSafe Blog https://www.psafe.com/en/blog 32 32 <![CDATA[I Am A Witness: Antibullying Emoji Campaign]]> https://www.psafe.com/en/blog/witness-antibullying-emoji-campaign/ Fri, 30 Sep 2016 21:33:36 +0000 https://www.psafe.com/en/blog/?p=4304 There are lots of apps available that can make your life less dangerous. But now kids can support their friends through being bullied — and help to stop it — with a unique set of emojis. Called I Am a Witness, the keyboard is designed to stop bullying by helping kids point out cruelties, which, according to the app, can be remedied simply by someone calling out bullies. Here, we’ll discuss some of the best features — and a few drawbacks — to the I Am a Witness app.

The Purpose
According to the I Am a Witness app, 81% of bullying ends when someone steps in to stop it. That’s the function of the I Am a Witness app. In group chats or private messages on phones, kids can tell friends to stop saying nasty things about other members of the text conversation using an emoji or a sticker. They can also support bullied students by sending them private messages letting them know they aren’t alone.

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The Witness Emojis
There are several types of emojis available, all in a bright and fun pop art style. There are multi-colored staring eyes letting bullies know they are being watched. To support bullied friends, kids can send kind messages like “Stay Cool” or “Don’t Listen” to offer visual sympathy. The app is completely free, so kids don’t have to buy anything to offer their support to bullied peers.

Reviews
Most of the users of I Am Witness really liked the app — it has over a four-star rating in the Google Play store. A number of users say that the app really helps to stop bullying. Not everyone is such a fan, however. Some reviewers say that the app often crashes, while others don’t like that the app asks for too much data from users. Additional keyboard users don’t like that keyboards takes up too much of the phone’s screen

I Am Witness helps your kids support their friends. If you want to make sure your kids can always stick up for their friends, download PSafe Total onto their smartphones. PSafe’s Memory Booster helps them optimize their data, clear out clutter from their storage, and speed up their devices. Kids can have a lot of junk on their phones, and PSafe will help you help them clean.

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<![CDATA[Why Were High School Kids Changing Their Facebook Names?]]> https://www.psafe.com/en/blog/high-school-kids-changing-facebook-names/ Fri, 09 Sep 2016 21:58:21 +0000 https://www.psafe.com/en/blog/?p=3675 It’s only natural that juniors and seniors in high school — stressed with school, jobs, and college applications — want to blow off a little steam. But in the early years of the 2010s, students also worried that colleges to which they applied might browse their Facebook pages while reviewing admissions packages. While most colleges said they didn’t review high school kids’ social media pages before admission, the senior name changing tradition became hugely popular anyway. By 2012, for example, there were 83 million fake accounts on the social media site.

High school juniors and seniors first starting changing their Facebook names when they thought that college admissions representatives were cruising their pages for admissions red flags. When asked, however, most college admissions officers said they didn’t look through students’ Facebook pages before admitting them, although some mentioned that they did peruse social media before admission.

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Whether or not students were really being watched by admissions counselors, they still changed their Facebook names starting in their junior years to be safe. Most of the students simply changed their first names to spellings that weren’t standard. For example, “Amy” was changed to “Aim E.” Other students used nicknames to throw off the college admissions counselors’ trail. The tradition stuck, whether or not students really believed their pages were being considered in their applications.

Name changing for college admissions came to an abrupt halt in October 2014, however, when Facebook implemented its “real name policy.” A person’s real name — defined as a name that would be listed on a credit card, student ID, or driver’s license — was required to be a member of the social networking site. Today, the only way that a Facebook user can use an alternate name on Facebook is to provide specifics of a special need to use a pseudonym. Today’s high school juniors and seniors likely will not qualify: hiding from college admissions counselors is not a reason likely to be accepted by Facebook.

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