Yik Yak

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Yik Yak
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Yik Yak website www.yikyak.com
Type Anonymous social media
Launch Date November, 2013
Status Active
Product Line Yik Yak
Platform iOS application
Android
Website www.yikyak.com

Yik Yak is a 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].

History

Features

Photo Sharing

Herd

Peek

Ethical Implications

Bullying & Cyberbullying

References

  1. "about." Yik Yak. https://www.yikyak.com/about
  2. "features." Yik Yak. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yik_Yak