Anonymous Social Media?
4I recently ran across Secret, a social media sharing app that is (almost) completely anonymous. The almost is that the app, of course, knows who you are and you do create friend circles - but not even your friends know who posted what.
So, thoughts? Fun? Terrible?
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So, it's a social app, and you can add your friends, but there is no identity within the app?
So basically, I can get 10 friends on there and then rip into one of them and let them know how I really feel, and they won't know who said it?
That could be fun! It could also be a train-wreck, which would make it even more fun
Yes. If your friends sign up and use their contacts to add friends, it will tell them how many friends are on Secret - but not WHO. So, unless you invite them directly, or tell them, or give it away - they won't even know who's sharing secrets...
From what I saw it also anonymizes the invites so they wouldn't know it was you who invited them unless you told them some other way.
Sounds like fun nevertheless... :))
Weird, but I would give it a whirl.
I started using it a while ago, but none of my friends are using it and I haven't invited any so right now I just look at the secrets in my area.
I have to say 99% of it is complete garbage. Even if there is a slightly interesting or feel-good secret the comments are filled with trolls and hatred nonsense only rivaled by Youtube comments. Maybe it would be more interesting if I had a ton of friends using it, I'm really not sure.
Still all that said I check it every few days when I'm in the mood to feel stupid and disappointed in humanity.
that's so sad. i was going to take a look at it, but now i don't want to.
I saw some troll behavior, but mostly positive comments. It's not quite as salacious as the articles I read make it out to be, more like an anonymous twitter, or tumblr confessions type format.
I only have a couple of friends on it, and I was cracking up trying to guess who got off on "chunky dunkin" in a friend's pool.
I don't see the point. Besides which I'd be constantly anxious about revealing myself with word choice, sentence structure, etc. I decided a long time ago that it's just a lot less work to be open and honest. I'm lazy like that.
I agree; besides, my friends know all my secrets anyway!
No Windows Phone app. No big secret there.
The day you do a Windows App, the secret is definitely OUT ! :(( #ThatsAfact !
Latest update: apparently some kind of Dallas cheerleading squad discovered Secret and my feed was filled with weird catty cheerleading posts spewing with emojis.
They later posted a Facebook status from their coach forbidding them from using it anymore.
Anonymous social media tends to prove the greater internet fuckwad theory
This article more accurately expresses my experience with Secret, so far.
And this link is like all of the snarky tech gossip, without having to dl the app.
We know you are going to do it, how is it a secret now?
Because he'll have to clip you, regardless ! :((