Difference between revisions of "Yik Yak"
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Revision as of 06:13, 12 February 2016
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Yik Yak is a location-based social media application that was developed by Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington, both of whom graduated from Furman University. They created this application with the goal, "to create a way for people to instantly connect with everyone around them. As of now, Yik Yak is now located in over 2000 campuses across the United States"[1].
Yik Yak works off anonymous submissions from people within a certain proximity. The main page consists of a refreshable feed of posts users have made, and the application prefers to call these posts "yaks". As a user you are allowed to upvote, downvote, and comment on these yaks[2]. The user will build up yakarma as they do more of these actions.
Contents
History
Features
Photo Sharing
On July 15, 2015 Yik Yak started allowing users to post photos. However, Yik Yak moderates the photos before they are actually posted. Their guidelines are that you should not post inappropriate photos (anything you wouldn’t send to your mother), illegal content, or faces will be allowed in local feeds.
Herd
Peek
Ethical Implications
Bullying & Cyberbullying
References
- ↑ "about." Yik Yak. https://www.yikyak.com/about
- ↑ "features." Yik Yak. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yik_Yak
