Teen Creates “Sit with Us” App for Bullied Kids
Maybe I am the old man in the room, but even though it sounds neat, and the intentions are good, I think the net result is pushing more towards not dealing with the world and now instead of slipping notes folded in your hand with micro-writing to someone, you text them or hook up on an app. The note could get intercepted and abused in the past, and the same for this app, just as Facebook can be used to prey upon people, so can this app be used. Tech is not always the answer, although tech is liberating and awesome in general.<p>Part of growing up is learning to take chances, and overcome fears, extreme cases not included. Children learn to test boundaries, and explore. Some kids, and their parents are just bad or ignorant, and it will always exist in some manner. The goal post moves to the next unacceptable thing to the point where people will only be able to live in urban areas, and wouldn&#x27;t last a minute outside of their cell coverage zone, or in nature.<p>It will never go away even with all of the tech and laws. You can&#x27;t legislate intelligence, and you cannot tech it to death. I for one think things have gotten better, but the bad is reported more, and gives the impression that it is somehow worse in people&#x27;s minds.<p>I look at my childhood, and my children&#x27;s and they are orders of magnitude in difference to the violence and things that went on in my neighborhood. I do, though see the relative discomforts. Meaning something that would not have personally been hurtful to me then, or at least I would have been able to put aside, and move on, would be more of an issue to my children&#x27;s peers. We have progressed, and are whittling away at the extremes, but then the relative borders of unacceptable move closer perhaps enough to make the emotional magnitude equivalent.