Yik Yak now allows anonymous photo sharing, just not selfies
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A March 28, 2014 photo illustration shows the Google Play Store download page for an anonymous social networking app in Washington, DC. When a new social app Yik Yak swept into Auburn University, some of the coolest kids started posting comments on it. But no one knows who is making the comments, because the posts are anonymous. ‘It spread pretty fast,’ says Nickolaus Hines, a junior at the Alabama university. ‘The majority of things are jokes or things which are obviously funny.’ But Hines added that ‘some of the things are pretty mean,’ and that ‘the ones about girls get taken off if the girls see them.’ Yik Yak, which allows users to see posts in a radius up to eight kiolometers (five miles) is part of a flurry of new apps which offer new ways to interact anonymously in social networks. AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)” data-credit=”AFP/Getty Images” src=”http://o.aolcdn.com/dims-shared/dims3/GLOB/crop/3000×1982+0+0/resize/960×635!/format/jpg/quality/85/http://hss-prod.hss.aol.com/hss/storage/midas/91621fa1a3be35db1772ec562f7d0d43/200814184/481285781.jpg” data-mep=”884756″ />Yik Yak announced today that it will now allow users to post photos to the anonymous messaging app — just so long as they don’t include human faces. That means you’ll be able to share photos of your dog, your meal and non-reproductive body parts, just not your face. Seriously, don’t even try. The company will be actively monitoring photo posts (before they go live) in an effort to maintain content control. Users, however, will still be allowed to show pictures of themselves as part of photo collections in the Explore section of Peek. Additionally, the company rolled out phone verification in an effort to combat spam and make the app a bit more secure.
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