> How can you call your app anonymous and require my identity and contents of my device? The way these anonymous social media apps work is that they distinguis

> How can you call your app anonymous and require my identity and contents of my device? The way these anonymous social media apps work is that they distinguish anonymity from traceability. Since you are traceable (or identifiable via your mobile device), you are NOT anonymous in the eyes of the social media service (in this case Yik Yak). It however, provides you anonymity against the users of the social media. For many Internet users, this is sufficient. Recently, we did some analysis (sensitivity, type, potential audience and linguistic characterists) on the content posted on anonymous social media like Whisper [0]. One of the things we found is that not all content is equally sensitive in terms of anonymity. [0] http://socialnetworks.mpi-sws.org/papers/anonymity_shades.pdf http://socialnetworks.mpi-sws.org/papers/anonymity_shades.pd...