/PRNewswire/ - As a new school year begins, WebSafety, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: WBSI), the leading provider of mobile and Internet safety technologies, provides parents with an actionable way to prevent incidences of cyber-bullying. WebSafety's CellSafety and WebSafetyPC software applications notify parents in real-time if their children are sending or receiving degrading text and email messages. The instant alerts empower families to communicate openly about potentially dangerous situations like cyber-bullies, sexting and online predators.

Cyber-bullying is a form of teen abuse that is growing at an alarmingly fast rate. According to the Cyberbullying Research Center, 33 percent of youth have been victimized by cyber-bullying and 41 percent of victims do not tell anyone in their off-screen lives about their abuse. Many victims of cyber-bullying feel that the abuse is as bad, or worse, as bullying in real life with incidences taking place predominately during after school hours in chat rooms and via instant message, text and email.

"Cyber-bullying statistics show that the effect this abuse has on victims can be devastating. Cyber victimization has been shown to cause poor grades, poor self-esteem, depression and in some cases suicide," said Rowland Day, CEO of WebSafety, Inc. "The CellSafety and WebSafetyPC applications provide parents with a way to monitor their children's mobile and Internet usage without spying on them in order to prevent their children from being included in this degrading, hurtful and dangerous behavior."

The CellSafety and WebSafetyPC software applications also inhibit texting in school via "No Texting Zones" in order to prevent scholastic cheating and also prevent incidences of distracted driving by locking a phone's ability to send or receive text and email messages in a moving vehicle.

WebSafety's suite of services, CellSafety and WebSafetyPC, are available starting at $9.99 per month, with substantial discounts available for commercial and governmental accounts. For more information please visit www.mywebsafety.com.

About WebSafety, Inc.
WebSafety, Inc. is the leading provider of mobile and computer software solutions that help to prevent incidences of distracted driving as well as unlawful Internet behavior such as cyber predators, explicit or degrading texting and cyber-bullying. The mobile software works on all of the major wireless operating systems, including Android, Blackberry and Symbian systems and on all four of the major wireless carriers. The Irving, Texas-based company is also the creator of the "National Wireless Highway Safety Network," which is driven to save lives. For more information, please visit www.mywebsafety.com.

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