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Imagine how misleading advertisements can be on this platform: since your friends won't be explicitly attaching their names to their posts, you would never know if something was inserted by an advertiser.
"My cat only eats cuts of Wagyu beef. It is costing me a fortune. What do I do?"<p>This is satire of course, but for a brief moment it made me reverse my stance on the SF Google shuttles/rent price thing. And you know—sometimes behind satire there's the memory of someone who actually said something to that effect.<p>(If anyone actually has this question: feed a homeless person. Oh, I don't mean give food to a homeless person, I mean, cut a homeless person into thin slices and season it to your cat's taste. Dickens would recommend using the children of the homeless. Who ever said humans shouldn't be eaten? Disruption!)
Interesting. I came up with precisely this during a "social app for the masses" thought experiment. Inspirations were the positives I've observed with anonymous commenting systems and the "secrets" pages I think I first saw in the local City Paper.<p>Follow-up thoughts were:<p>- What percentage of users would simply take it as an opportunity to be anonymously nasty to each other?<p>- In larger sharing circles, would users take to using "tripcode" type images or signatures in their shares to actually fight anonymity.<p>- How do you actually monetize such a service? As a deeper source of sentiment? A window into the things people want/think, but won't demonstrate publicly?<p>- If sharing user produced text, how anonymous could it actually be? Speech patterns, capitalization, punctuation and whatnot is all very telling. It would be an interesting application of NLP to anonymize those tidbits without changing their meaning.
Been using this for a while. I love the app, the idea, the community - I feel like it's somewhere online where I can actually be myself, instead of worrying about managing my public profile (Facebook/Twitter).
Quick tip: I really wanted to try this app, but I didn't trust it to "find my friends", i.e., read my contacts. At first it seems you can't skip that step, but I force quit the app when it showed me the "find my friends" screen, and when I started it back up, it didn't show me the screen again.<p>Does anyone know if it spams your address book?
Interesting idea! I don't see a direct analogy with how we communicate in the real world. So I wonder what use will emerge for that medium. Network sentiments?<p>Anonymity will be relative to how unique your behavior is among your address book contacts. Might become an awesome tool to educate people about the difficulty of anonymizing content...
Definitely an interesting trend emerging here, with lots of different players entering the space. <a href="http://whisper.sh/" rel="nofollow">http://whisper.sh/</a> raised a $21M series B, and <a href="http://www.500strangers.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.500strangers.com</a> also recently launched.
So anonymous vaguebooking? Not for me, I get enough of that on Facebook where there's actually an identity to semi restrain people.<p>(May totally be for you, of course, I'm not value judging here. Just... I am absolutely not the target market here, I think.)
I've been using it all morning and I'm a big fan. It's proven to be very therapeutic with work complaints / fears. I just hope it doesn't get overrun with trolls and attention-whores.
I like this idea so much that I built something very similar for the web two months ago. It's out there, but I never officially launched it.<p>App looks great, and the idea is great. Good stuff.
looks really cool, hope that it doesnt turn into the "anonymous confessions fb pages" where people submit posts through a google survey thing, and the get reposted by the admin. those are all fake...
So you guys do realize that all the data that goes across the AT&T network and other carriers are all monitored and that packets are tagged with info that goes back to your GSM or CDMA network entrypoint with a new ID.<p>This isnt how to make an anonymous secure network for sharing. It only obscufates it for those who are poor at tracking you or companies that mine your public data for sale - although technically that anonymous nature still doesnt work unless everyone uses the network. If your sister is still on a public social network and posts photos of you , or references to your job - you will still be mined.<p>So that said. Whats up?