Yik Yak is an anonymous app that lets you post something to
those people around you that have the app. It is local so only the surrounding people
that have the app can comment on what you post. Another aspect of this app is
voting, someone can either vote something up or down. If a post gets so many
down votes that it gets removed. On the other hand you can set it up to where
the highest voted post go to the top of the list so those are the first you see
when you open the app.
Yik Yak is a great way of finding out what’s going on around
you and being able to relate to people in your area that you normally have no
way of communicating with. As well, you can save areas to read the post even
while not in that area but you cannot post or comment on the post in that area
if you are not presenting there. Which leads me to my next point, that your
location must be on to use the app, which gives the app a sort of authentic
feel that you’re actually interacting with those who are around you.
For the
most part it is sort of a college town type of app but from my experience it is
used almost everywhere but in less populated areas there might be only 2 post a
day compared to 20 post an hour in a college town.
This site goes into the pros and cons of Yik Yak and views the new social media tool from a few different angles: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-things-need-know-yik-yak/
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