Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/26/2015

• Few Winners In Anonymous Social Networking, And Secret’s Not One Of Them | TechCrunch

  This article describes how anonymous social media apps decline in use once they are mandated to sanitize their content, ie- nor more anonymous cyberbullying.

  tags: social media social network anonymous

  • Actually, what anonymous social networking for the most part offered was yet another reminder that when people no longer have to stand behind their words, they can say some pretty terrible things.
  • Anonymous features in Ask.fm, for example, were referenced as being directly contributing to a good handful of teen suicides, and following its revamp toward more “safe” networking policies, newcomer Yik Yak appeared to be ready to pick up the slack as one of the top mobile-first anonymous networks
  • On Yik Yak, which combines anonymity with location-based networking, cyberbullying became so bad this year that the company had to implement technology to block the app on school grounds around the U.S
  • In short: when the trash talk dropped, so did the app’s popularity

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