South Korea Develops App that Warns Parents of Possible Kids Suicide Attempt

It is kind of sad that an app needs to be developed because this problem has gotten so bad in South Korea:

http://www.skynews.com.au/content/dam/skynews/news/world/asiapacific/2015/03/14/skynews_709703514.jpg/jcr:content/renditions/skynews.img.1200.745.jpeg

South Korea has developed smartphone apps to help bring down its high student suicide rate by warning parents when their children might be at risk.

The government-developed apps, which education ministry officials hope to introduce this year, are programmed to detect ‘suicide-related’ words used by children on social networks or in messages or internet searches on their phones.

This would then trigger an alert which would be sent to the parents on their smartphones.

‘Student suicide has become a social problem requiring systematic and comprehensive steps to prevent it,’ the ministry said in a statement issued on Friday.

South Korea’s suicide rate ranks among the highest of the 34 member nations of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.  [Sky News]

You can read more at the link.

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ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

I wrote an app for that. My app is open source. I will publish it here in case anyone wants to use it.

10 MicrophoneSound = read.microphone(1)
20 if MicrophoneSound = “I hate studying all the time. I want to die.” then print “WARNING!”
30 if MicrophoneSound = “Aaaaaaaahhhhhhh SPLAT” then print “Too Late. Have another kid.”
40 if MicrophoneSound = “” then print “Child Sleeping. Wake them up and tell them to study more.”
50 goto 10

Liz
Liz
9 years ago

CH, that was both extremely disturbing and funny at the same time.

I feel guilty for laughing, so boo on you. 😛

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

If (new.LizGravatar.hot > former.LizGravatar.hot)
{
Action = Fap;
}
else
{
Action = FapAnyway;
}

Liz
Liz
9 years ago

OMG CH…that time I laughed so out loud so much my sons ran over to see what I was laughing at.

I’ve never had to quit out of safari so fast…

johnnyboy
johnnyboy
9 years ago

CH,

Your program is a bit loopy, and I predict that your If Then can only run once or twice before it encounters a runtime error and a marked decline in performance.

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