Echo Provides Tips to Prevent Cyberbullying


amy-jantzer-prevent-cyberbullyingRecently, Echo partnered with the Florida Department of Children and Families to offer some tips to help parents address bullying and prevent these horrible tragedies. We offered some tips on their blog.

We also appeared on Orlando’s WKMG Local 6 to offer more recommendations on how to be aware ad prevent cyber bullying. Here is the recent story and video.

As a follow up to these blogs and stories, we put together a synopsis of important information as well as tips that can help parents and the community prevent this growing concern.

Mobile Devices

  • Blocking calls & texts
  • Restrictions on settings, downloads

Social Media

http://cyberbullying.org/Questions-Parents-Should-Ask.pdf

Looking to permanently block a phone number on the iPhone? Apple has added this built-in functionality to iOS 7. Contacts and numbers on your iOS 7 block list will be prevented from contacting you with phone calls, iMessages, SMS text messages or FaceTime.

To add a contact to the block list in iOS 7 follow these instructions:

  1. Navigate to Settings -> Phone (or Messages, or FaceTime) -> Blocked
  2. Touch Add New…
  3. Select the contact you wish to block from the list

To block a phone number that recently called your iPhone:

  1. Navigate to Phone -> Recents
  2. Touch the blue information circle (i) next to the phone number
  3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and tap Block this Caller
  4. Touch Block Contact

To block a phone number that recently messaged your iPhone:

  1. Navigate to Messages
  2. Select the message from the number you wish to block
  3. Touch Contact in the upper right corner
  4. Touch the blue information circle (i) next to the phone number
  5. Scroll to the bottom of the page and tap Block this Caller
  6. Touch Block Contact

To block a phone number that recently sent a FaceTime request to your iPhone:

  1. Navigate to FaceTime -> Recents
  2. Touch the blue information circle (i) next to the phone number
  3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and tap Block this Caller
  4. Touch Block Contact

To see what contacts, phone numbers and email addresses are currently on your block list navigate to Settings -> Phone -> Blocked. Individual entries can be selected and unblocked by tapping Edit in the upper right hand corner.

For additional information with more resources and tools for parents, teachers and kids, you can also visit: Cyberbullying.org

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