Anonymous Message App Yik Yak Faces Backlash From An Entire City

Huffington Post › Kim Bellware

CHICAGO — Yik Yak is the latest anonymous messaging app to stoke cyber bullying fears among parents and educators, recently causing so much worry its creators temporarily disabled it for an entire city.

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Jerked off at the park

I was at the part the other day as was just wearing sweats with no shorts cause they were in the laundry. And you know how the sweats rub you and you get hard easy. So I was sitting at a bench with no one around and though I could rub one out. No problem, but just as I was about to finish I notice some gardeners across the street laughing their ass off at me. Got up and went ... MORE

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Is the Trend for Anonymity Online a Challenge or Opportunity for Social Media Listening?

Business2Community › Anna Cordes

Our recent 2014 Social Media ... MORE

My boss is a useless yuppie schlub

I work for a huge tech firm. You’ve heard of it. It’s always in the news. When I first got the job I thought I was on my way up the ladder to success. I though the attitude in Silicon Valley was going to be different than more conservative industries I’d worked for in the past.

Maybe it was just bad luck, but my boss is a totally empty shell of a person. ... MORE

Banter Debuts An Anonymous Social Network On Mobile That Focuses On Interests, Not Confessions

TechCrunch › Sarah Perez

A new mobile app called Banter wants to build an anonymous social network on mobile by carving out ... MORE

Anonymity and the Ivy

Yale Daily News › Caroline Posner

Anonymity is undoubtedly the zeitgeist of Yale’s current social media activity. In the last few months, a fresh set of confession-centric pages has cropped up, most notably “Elihu Yale (Bulldog Admirers)” ... MORE

Complainers Want To Unmask Internet’s Anonymous Commenters, Courts Undecided

Bizpac Review › Joe Saunders

The question is at the heart of a Change.org petition signed by best-selling author Anne Rice, demanding that Amazon.com require identity ... MORE

The Value of Anonymity on the Social Web

EContent › Eileen Mullan

A few weeks back, a good friend sent me an article that appeared ... MORE

Confession Apps Whisper, Secret Give a Taste of Online Anonymity

BusinessWeek › Brad Stone

Since the rise of social networks such as Facebook (FB) and LinkedIn (LNKD), Internet users have navigated the Web more or less chained to their real identities, with their activities ... MORE

Online Commenting: A Right To Remain Anonymous?

USA Today › Tyler Wells Lynch

A revolution is at hand, and the consequences could fundamentally change the identity of the Internet — or, more precisely, your identity within it.

Websites and social networks are increasingly ... MORE