High School students say they are victims of bullying. A lot of the time we don’t know how we can help...
Send five of your friends The Bully Text to show them their role in bullying. They’ll play a text messaging game that will show them how they can be bully, bullied, or someone who takes a stand.
When you enter your number, you can play the game too. Fill out the form above to get started.
At your locker you see people looking at their phones and whispering. You notice you have a text. Curious? Open it or ignore it.
Open it!
It says "Nicole got wit the whole football team this summer. Bet she's knocked up." Your friend asks what you're looking @. Do you show him or delete it?
By sharing these stats with your friends, you can help spread the word to end bullying.
If you see someone being bullied, reach out to them. Invite them to hang out, sit with them at lunch, or just ask them how they’re doing and listen to them.
If you see someone being bullied, talk to an adult about it - a teacher, the principal, guidance counselor, nurse, etc.
If you feel safe, you can help give the bullied a way out by saying “hey man, we’re going to be late for class” or some similar statement. Or, you can create a distraction - bullying will often stop if the attention shifts else. Just remember to never put yourself in a dangerous situation.
If someone says something you don’t think is cool and you feel safe, say something to them. It’s not about starting a fight - it’s just telling them you don’t think what they’re doing is right.
The Bully Text is a text messaging game set during an imaginary first day of school. We’ll text you a situation and give you options on what you can do. You text us back an answer and the choice puts you down a specific path. Each path has a unique ending, based on the decisions you made. The game is meant to put people in common bullying situations to show different ways to react and the realistic consequences of those decisions. Check out an example here.
As long as you want. You can stop the experience at any time, simply by not responding to any text messages. If you try to do all the different paths in the game, it’ll probably be about 10 minutes long.
It depends on how many times you play the game, or how long you play it. The game is an experience, so there will be a lot of back and forth.
You’ll get a text with a situation, then there will be words in ALLCAPS like that. You text us the ALLCAPS word that you decide. For example, a text could say “Do you go to GYM or SKIPCLASS.” If you text us GYM, you’d go down the gym story path. If you text us SKIPCLASS you’d go down that path.
Your standard messaging and data rates apply. We never ask you for money - all of the texts you get from us we do not ask you to pay for. However, if your plan charges you for texts that you receive or send, then those rates would still apply.
Email Alyssa at bullytext@dosomething.org.
