Is Text Bullying Troubling your Child? Check Out How to Check Mate Offenders

If you’ve known texting to be all about fun, you’re sorely mistaken. Texting is the latest addition to the numerous other modern communication systems that kids use to bully and harass their friends (read it as “friendenemies”)!!

Yes, to some extent texting is fun. It is also one of the easiest, cheapest, and fastest ways of reaching others when you’re not in a position to make a call or try out other channels of communication. But still, it is turning out to be an unforgivable tool for kids to message the nastiest possible things to their fellows at school, college, club, or neighborhood.

Text messages such as “Y Dnt U Die” or “We Al Hate U” are pretty common with bullies who prefer texting in place of emailing and chat messenger messaging.  The reason for this is quite simple. Cell phones with texting ability are available with almost every kid compared to costlier smart devices. This gives a bully a perfect solution to trouble the kids who don’t use smart phones and other smart devices.

This is also a cheaper and easier way to do it. One just needs to get a SIM card with cheaper messaging option and there goes hundreds of messages from the bully’s mobile to his numerous victims. Once the task is over, the SIM goes to the dustbin and the bully has another one in the pocket for next week!

The reason why it is more dangerous

It goes on 24/7

Yes, it goes on all the time. Cyber bullying can be stopped by getting off the line or closing down the Internet connection but texting goes on till the time the victim owns the mobile phone or doesn’t change the phone number.

One just doesn’t know how to stop it

It is really difficult to stop it. In fact, it is almost impossible. Even if the victim doesn’t talk to anyone; doesn’t goes to any of the social sites or puts up a profile there; bullies get to find him and harass him, simply because phone can’t be deleted away like the social site profiles and it is really very easy to send text messages to anybody. The only thing that the kid can do is to change the phone number and never pass it to anyone. But then what will be the use of having a phone?

It follows everywhere

Yes, it follows everywhere. Whether the victim is at school or at home or at the market place or hiding under the sofa in the living room, it follows the person everywhere. One blink and there’s a new message, God know from where and by whom.

How do you know if your child is being text-bullied?

          How to help your child get rid of being bullied?

Keep a close watch on your child’s cell phone activities and habits. If you find your child to be sad or tensed after every text that hits his cell phone, consider it as a harassment message troubling your child. Install cell phone monitoring app on your child’s phone to stay in the know about all that’s happening in his digital life. It will let you read each and every message that hits in or goes off your child’s cell phone. You’ll also get to check the call logs, chat history, things done online and GPS location with the help of the app. Once you know that some bad guys are troubling your child, just buy another SIM for your child and ask him not to pass the number to everyone around and at the same time keep monitoring his cell phone activities to be sure that there isn’t another trouble awaiting him.