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A New App That Lets Users’ Friends ‘Virtually Walk Them Home At Night’ Is Exploding In Popularity

Tens of thousands of people around the world are now using a free personal-safety mobile app that allows friends to virtually walk you home at night.

The Companion app, created by five students from the University of Michigan, enables users to request a friend or family member to keep them company virtually and track their journey home via GPS on an online map.

Although they can do so, the friend or family member does not need to have installed the Companion app. The user can send out several requests to different phone contacts in case people are not available to be a companion or not with their phones at the time.

Those contacted then receive an SMS text message with a hyperlink in it that sends them to a web page with an interactive map showing the user walking to their destination. If the user strays off their path, falls, is pushed, starts running, or has their headphones yanked out of their phone, the app detects these changes in movement and asks the user if they’re OK.

If the user is fine, they press a button on the app to confirm within 15 seconds. If they do not press the button, or a real emergency is occurring, the Companion app transforms the user’s phone into a personal alarm system that projects loud noises to scare criminals from the scene, and gives you the option to instantly call the police.

My personal fancast for Poison Ivy would be BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD!! 💚

Powerful ad. 

Every country in the world should start making ads like these. 

What I felt watching the movie and the torture part was. That it was horrible and not healthy what so ever. But. that Harley wanted to take part of it. She said, “it’s ok, because I can take it.”. “Are you suggestion that a person in the right of his mind would WANT abuse?? you’re victim blaming FUCK YOU.” No, I’m not. But she’s NOT IN THE RIGHT OF HER MIND. She’s INSANE. She was like that before the Joker Tortured her, He just increased it. And I’m not justifying in any way what he did to her, but… I don’t think it was abusive in the eyes of both of them. I think they saw more of a treatment, a procedure you have to go through in order to get to the mentality and brain functioning of the Joker. Don’t forget she was a psychiatrist who was fascinated by the Joker and his madness. He wanted to make her a part of his world, and she wanted to be introduced to his world and see the things he sees. Is it healthy to want a thing like that? to romanticize madness and suffering? No. BUT THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT SHE DID. BECAUSE SHE’S NOT HEALTHY. AND THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT MAKES HER SUCH AN INTERESTING CHARACTER. In the eyes of the Joker he was giving her a gift or making her better, and he didn’t care that it hurt for her the same way he didn’t care it hurt for him when he went through similar processes. He doesn’t see pain or suffering as a horrible thing that needs to be stopped at all costs. BECAUSE HE’S INSANE. The same way they were standing in front of the chemical containers, and he offered her a choice, “would you live for me?” would you go through the same process that I went through (that’s his origin story, he fell to a toxic container) to become like me? Do you really want to join me? and she DID. by HER choice.

 In this movie (not in the comics, they are different) It felt like his motives are closer to this and they weren’t “you’re in pain. it makes me satisfied to see you suffer. I’m happy.” If she wasn’t so sick that she would’ve been ready to go through torture to open her mind like the Joker, she wouldn’t have fallen in love with him in the first place. And the fact that she was ready to do that, that she understood and sympathized his madness, is what made the Joker fall in love with her instead of just picking a random girl and forcing her to go through it

None of this is healthy. It’s toxic for both of them. I’m not romanticizing it, thinking, “oh, I wish I could find an insane boyfriend and we can go out  of our minds together!” I just find it fascinating. BECAUSE THEY’RE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS. If they were real people I wouldn’t go, “oh, fascinating, go on.” I’d say, “GO TO THERAPY.”