Rethink - Mobile Application Deployment To Prevent Cyberbullying

Rethink - Mobile Application Deployment To Prevent Cyberbullying
One of the problems that haunt the younger generation in the era of globalization and cutting-edge technology like today is the phenomenon of cyberbullying. The phenomenon of cyberbullying is mandatory for us to give special attention because its effects are remarkable threatens the future of our young generation. These actions also like cyberbullying epidemic that could spread and transmitted from one actor to another actor.

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Already our duty to try to break the chain of cyberbullying that of the younger generation. And concrete steps to realize these dreams have been done by a young girl named Trisha Prabhu. Student's just 15 years old, managed to create a mobile #aplikasi called Rethink, which can prevent a person to cyberbullying.

With these achievements, he really hope there are no more victims who have suffered a loss even his future as a result of the actions of the bully online.

Concept Application Rethink


Basically the concept promoted by Rethink application is to give a warning to the user when the mobile device will send a message or something via which he has. The warning will appear, if the message or text content that will he send contain words that allegedly would pose a potential cyberbullying.

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Simply put, when we send a message that would have the potential to intimidate the prospective recipient of the message, then the application automatically Rethink will bring up a pop-up window that warns us to reconsider the words that we send. The pop-up window, has also been integrated with existing systems in #smartphone or mobile device. So the process can run very smoothly and in real time.

This is actually becoming the main force of the Rethink applications, where the words are used to alert tone is actually a message of peace. These words teach us how to communicate better. The hope of course that users can better control themselves when it may intentionally or unintentionally cast a negative and potentially as cyberbullying.

History The idea Developing Applications Rethink

Trisha claimed that the reason why he originally wanted to develop applications Rethink is after he saw a TV story about a little girl of her age were desperate to end life as a result of acts of cyberbullying that he experienced.

"In the fall of 2013, I came home from school and read a story about a girl 11 years old jumped from the water tower because of cyberbullying," said student from Illinois, the United States.

From there he is already quite familiar with the world of technology, had the idea to create an application that aims to reduce and even prevent the occurrence of acts of cyberbullying. Then he began to develop the concept of the Rethink and manifested in the form of mobile applications. For the platform used, the current application can be used Rethink the operating system users android.

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Various bring Award

Thanks to innovations in technology and also the response to cyber bullying, Trisha Prabhu has received several awards such as for example the Google Science Fair competition in 2014. In addition, there are still some other awards managed by Trisha together disabet Rethink application creation.

But more than awards, for Trisha can help reduce the number of victims of cyberbullying certainly the biggest achievement. This is the real form of the younger generation step in addressing the problems that exist today. Hope can be an inspiration to us all, especially being in the world of technology.

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