After Secret, Yik Yak and Sarahah, a new anonymous application triumph among the american teenagers the past few weeks. In general, the arrival of this type of platform, on which we comment on classmates by anonymity, ends up generating insults, campaigns of harassment and condemnation of the faculty. And yet it could be that this new arrival is a game-changer.
TBH – the acronym for To Be Honest (" to be honest ") – is an application positive, made to inflate the ego of its users. "We created TBH because we think we should feel better by using the social networks – and not more evil," one can read on the website of the application.
"Who has the most chances of becoming president ? "
Concretely, in contrast to other applications, anonymous, TBH does not write what one wants. The app poses questions designed to beings, positive to its users : "That you laugh the most ? "" Who is the best organizer of festivals ? "" Who has the most chances of becoming president ? "" Who has the most beautiful smile ? "... Each question, four names of friends, selected at random in the address book, are offered. The user must choose which best corresponds to the question asked ; there may also request that four additional names be proposed.
On the other side, the person you have designated as being "full Slytherin" – if that was a compliment – will be informed, but will not know your identity. Instead, she will receive each time a gemstone, pink if the answer comes from a girl, blue for a boy and violet if the person has chosen the option "non-binary" during registration.
The most downloaded from the App Store
Launched on August 3, TBH was elevated to the rank of the most downloaded app from the App Store and boasts not less than 2 million daily users. And this, in the fifteen american States only when it is available. It unfolds gradually, which allows him to avoid to sink below the queries, but also to be desired in the States where it is not yet present, ensuring an immediate success upon his arrival.
In recent years, the applications Secret, Yik Yak, Whisper, or Gossip, in France, had caused a lot of concerns. Widely used in schools, they allowed the dissemination of gossip and messages that are violent, under the cover of anonymity. The most famous have often benefited from a fashion effect flash, with a success very ephemeral. Secret has since closed its doors, just like Gossip, the result of a controversy and a warning from the ministry of national education. At the beginning of the summer, another application of the same type, Sarahah, had also reached the heights of the App Store. TBH, for his part, says he does not have the economic model established – the application has been created in a few weeks by a small california company, Midnight Labs, all of whose previous creations have failed.