• Home
  • Buy the Book
  • More ebooks
  • Reviews
  • Ethel Is Hot LOL
  • Free resources
    • For Educators
  • Hot Topics blog
  • News & Press
  • About Us
  • Contact

Streetchat: the latest anonymous messaging app to cyberbully

9/3/2014

0 Comments

 
Streetchat (go to link) is a new anonymous messaging app from Apple that sprang up over the summer as the latest tool kids can use to cyberbully. The free app on iTunes for iPhones, iPads and iPods, is proudly described this way: "Streetchat is an anonymous bulletin board to post photos to the people in your school. It is a fast reliable way to share your thoughts, gossip and talk about things around you."

After all the vicious cyberbullying that has come out of past anonymous phone apps (some of which have contributed to teen suicide), you gotta love that adult developers are still encouraging teens to
engage in malicious gossip, don't you?

If there is anything anonymous message app developers have learned from Secret, Whisper, and Ask.fm, it's that this tool can--and always will be--abused.

It's not even the first day of school yet and already, stories are coming out that this app is being misused to cyberbully in schools as well as make anonymous real-life threats.


One of the ways Streetchat can cyberbully is to set up an anonymous platform to launch a Rating Site tactic, i.e.
to negatively rate, denounce or judge someone.

Media reports often give the impression that kids flock to these kind of apps, but as this one teen reviewer of the app exemplifies, teens, themselves may be sick of developers monetizing their relationship conflicts.


* This app is sickening...      
by Audrey Chaffin

This is so terrible...what kind of people are you to make an app for kids to make fun of other kids in their school?! Maybe that wasn't the original intention, but it is certainly happening. It's so sad to see things that encourage bullying. I know in your rules it says that bullying is not allowed, but that's clearly not monitored very well. I saw plenty of kids making fun of specific kids in the school...one post asking commenters to list the fattest girl in school. I can only imagine how upset I would be if I was one of the kids being made fun of for everyone to see... This could seriously lead to kids committing suicide or cutting themselves over what people say about them and it probably will. There is no need for an easy way to view what everyone at your school thinks about you. This is going to hurt so many poor kids' feelings and get everyone mad at each other. For the sake of teens feeling happy with whom they are, please remove this app.

To be prepared this school year how cyberbullying apps work along with other cyberbullying tactics, buy Cyberslammed $12.50 for your school or home.



0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Picture

    Cyberslammed
    Hot Topics

    Cyberbullying tactics in the news, expert advice from contributors and prevention tips for parents, educators and kids.

    RSS Feed


    Blog Comment Rules

    All comments are pre-screened before posting. Anonymous comments will not be allowed. Keep it civil and on topic. No harassing or personal attacks; even if you disagree with something, please do it respectfully.

    Categories

    All
    After School App
    Anonymous Apps
    Anxiety
    Ask.fm
    Bulletins
    Burn Book
    Cell Phones/smart Phones
    Cyberbullying Policies
    Digital Pile On
    Ethel Is Hot (LOL)
    Expert Contributors
    Facebook
    Formspring
    Funstagram
    "Go Kill Yourself"
    Google+
    Hater's Club
    Homophobic Cyberbullying
    Identifying Cyberbullies
    Imposter Profile
    Instagram
    Kik Messenger
    Myspace
    Parent Contracts
    Rating Website
    Sexting
    Slut Shaming
    Slut-shaming
    Snapchat
    Streetchat
    Text Bombing
    Tween Novels
    Twitter
    Videojacking
    Whisper
    Yelp
    Youtube
    Zoom

    RSS Feed

    Archives

    February 2021
    October 2020
    July 2020
    April 2020
    February 2020
    July 2018
    December 2017
    October 2017
    January 2017
    November 2016
    September 2016
    July 2016
    April 2016
    February 2016
    November 2015
    September 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    January 2015
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    July 2013
    February 2013
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012