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What the heck is wrong with Yo? Have any of you installed and tried to use it? It's an app designed to send pre-fabricated messages amongst its users. Instea
by diminoten 12y ago
What the heck is wrong with Yo?
Have any of you installed and tried to use it? It's an app designed to send pre-fabricated messages amongst its users. Instead of typing "are you up?" late at night while I'm driving home (hypothetically; texting while driving is bad, kids), all I have to do is hit the "Yo" button on my screen. One, MAYBE 2 clicks later, my existence and consciousness is broadcast to my friends, en masse, and I can continue focusing on the road instead of my phone keyboard.
It also looks like, soon, new phrases will be sendable. Stuff like an actual, "Are you up?", "Lunch?" etc. I know in my friend circle, a button like, "Wanna game?" would work immensely well.
What about a "Help!" button? Now we're suddenly into the, "saving lives" territory the submission tries to say Yo has nothing to do with. "I'm suicidal"? "I'm lost"? "I'm hurt"?
Can we solve this problem using a million other apps, in a million other ways? Yes. Did Twitter go under because text messaging was the "exact same thing"? No.