New app found on young peoples' smart phones

[old man emu]

After years of being told by their children that the children's mobile phones could not be contacted because

 

1. The battery was flat.

 

2. They were out of credit.

 

3. It wasn't turned on.

 

4. They were in a blackspot,

 

a team of middle-aged telecommunications experts, all of whom had teenage children, has discovered a smartphone app used by teenagers to avoid certain text strings.

 

The app parses all incoming SMS texts, searching for text strings such as "you help me"; 'Where are", and "Call me"

 

When one of these strings is detected, the app immediately deletes the whole SMS and returns a "Message not Delivered" error message to the sender.

 

Advertising of this app is only by whispered word of mouth from teenager to teenager, and users are warned that anyone passing knowledge of the app to a parent, or person acting in loco parentis, will have their Facebook and Instagram accounts permanently disabled.

 

 

[spacesailor]

But what's the bbbdy APP's name!.

 

I've got to check all my 14 grand-kids bbbdy phones now. LoL

 

spacesailor

 

 

[Marty_d]

One may suspect that it's a myth, given the lack of app name, and the impossible-to-apply retributions for spilling the beans.

 

Besides, I'd be amazed if teenagers, collectively, could keep any secret for half an hour, let alone years.

 

 

[old man emu]

One may suspect that it's a myth, given the lack of app name, and the impossible-to-apply retributions for spilling the beans..

It's a joke, Joyce.

 

 

[nomadpete]

Make some allowance. Marty has been picking up a strong accent during his time in foreign lands. We'll have to type slowly so he can keep up.

 

 

[old man emu]

I think he's received a German Sense of Humour transplant. I doubt you regular Taswegian would have failed to spot the attempt at humour in my original post.

 

 

[Marty_d]

Ach, du lieber... Ich bin ein dummkopf!

 

Schade. Es tut mir leid, entschuldigung.

 

 

[nomadpete]

Using Google translate ........

 

"He said:

 

Mumble mumble CUSS mumble mumble CUSS."

 

Much the same in any language.