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Declickbaited: Anonymous Social Networking Apps Fail Because Anonymity Removes Meaning, Enables Meanness (and the apps focused on by the article are Secret an
by ashark 10y ago
Declickbaited:
Anonymous Social Networking Apps Fail Because Anonymity Removes Meaning, Enables Meanness
(and the apps focused on by the article are Secret and Yik Yak)
- oblio 10y ago> Enables Meanness Now that's an understatement, if I ever saw one. I'd call it more of a "stand underneath a waterfall of sewage".
- ashark 10y agoArticle used the word "meanness" so I did too. Which is, of course, not remotely a "hidden" rule, and may be one of the best known rules of the Internet. Penny Arcade gave it a name, years ago: The Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. So the headline's not just uselessly hiding info to be clickbait, it's lying.
- dang 10y agoOk, we'll use that! Shortened to fit 80 chars.