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Shadow Me safety service aims to serve KSU students

Published on November 17, 2009 by Raquel Barnett

Keeping campus secure can be a particularly daunting task, considering KSU has about 23,000 students and 700 full-time faculty members, which is why Shadow Me is offering its service to college campuses nationwide.

Already partnered with Auburn University, Georgia State University and Ohio State University, Shadow Me is trying to extend its innovative service to KSU.

Shadow Me came to campus for the Fall 2009 Market Day event Nov. 12. Account executive Melissa Lewis explained that the company’s goal is to introduce students to a service that provides personal security from their cell phones.

According to the company’s Web site, shadowmesecurity.com, the service is “an easy-to-use, cell phone-based security system that provides the ultimate in personal protection for mobile professionals, students, children-anyone who wants to make sure they are safe-and in contact-in any situation-at any time.”

Whether you are going on a blind date, jogging, hiking, walking to class, lost or working late, Shadow Me can accompany you everywhere.

“This is such a great idea. When I heard about the Georgia Tech student who was robbed and shot back in May, it really put things into perspective for me,” said sophomore Lauren Bearden. “I don’t think students are always aware of their surroundings, which can be a big reason why we become victims of crime. I think this service would really put a lot of student’s minds at ease when they go out.”

Students can buy the service for their cell phones for $9.99 a month, or around 35 cents a day and can cancel the service at any time. Students can also call the Shadow Me sales hotline at 678-384-7970 to ask about getting one month free with a subscription to the contract-free personal security agent.

According to Shadow Me’s Web site, when the service is purchased, customers are given a unique phone number, which they call to report their current location, intended destination, person they are meeting and any other pertinent information. Students can call the automated system and tell it how long they will be in class, on a date or any other activity, and it will call back at the student’s suggested time intervals. If the student does not respond or signal distress, Shadow Me will trigger a personal emergency response and notify the student’s pre-selected contacts with the information their colleagues, friends or family need to find them or alert authorities.

Shadow Me knows no borders. According to Lewis, it works internationally as well, so students looking into study abroad don’t have to feel afraid or vulnerable overseas.

To learn more about Shadow Me, visit their Web site or email Lewis at melissa.lewis@shadowmesecurity.com.