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Why anonymous social networks are scary (FairfaxUnderground.com included)
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Why anonymous social networks are
http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/02/tech/social-media/secret-apps-business-insider/index.html?c=tech
By Steve Kovach, Business Insider
(CNN) - In late 2007, a social network called Juicy Campus started going viral at a handful of colleges.
But unlike Facebook, which saw a similar buzz three years earlier as a fast-spreading social network conquering one university after another, Juicy Campus encouraged its users to talk about each other, not themselves. Instead of posting party photos and calls for homework help, Juicy Campus was a social network designed to spread gossip about your peers. And to get the best gossip, Juicy Campus let its users post anonymously.
You can imagine where that went. After posts of students' sexual exploits and even personal threats began to spread across Juicy Campus, some colleges attempted to block their servers from accessing the site. Fortunately, Juicy Campus didn't last long and was dead by early 2009 because it couldn't generate enough advertising revenue to stay afloat.
Today, there's a new resurgence in anonymous social networks and messaging apps, which seem to be gaining traction in light of Edward Snowden's revelations that the National Security Agency has access to just about everything we do online.
Some big-name investors are pumping millions into these startups, hoping one will be the next big thing to take off. There are apps such as Confide and Wickr that let you send self-destructing text or photo messages. There's Telegram, which bills itself as a more private alternative to WhatsApp. And we've all heard of Snapchat.
But two other anonymous social networks seem to have captured the attention of plugged-in techies and venture capitalists more than anything else: Whisper and Secret.
Both apps have received heavy financial backing. Whisper recently raised a huge $30 million round, just months after raising $21 million. Secret snagged $8.6 million from big investors such as Google Ventures. And both apps have triggered a debate about whether or not anonymous apps that encourage the spread of gossip are good for the online community as a whole.
By allowing users to post anonymously, these apps encourage such personal confessions as, "I have extreme feelings of rage when people around me chew or drink too loudly." But they also may eventually enable hateful and defamatory gossip about people. There's also concern that people will post secrets and news that are just plain wrong, but get spun into the record as gospel.
We're already seeing evidence of it, at least with Secret, which launched two months ago and has seen its share of scandalous posts. I can tell you that my feed alone, which comes from a network of friends in my iPhone's address book and "friends of friends," is full of caustic gossip about venture capitalists, sexism in tech, and a healthy amount of explicit sexual fantasies. In short, it's not quite the kind of content a new startup with a fresh round of funding wants to be hosting.
Secret has already taken a toll on some folks in the tech industry. Earlier this month, there was the case of Julie Ann Horvath, a former developer at GitHub who alleged harassment by her bosses after someone on Secret accused her of lying about her contributions to the company. Her tweets on the issue led to the suspension of one of GitHub's founders, pending an investigation.
Legendary venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, who has invested in almost every major startup in recent years, from Facebook to the recent crop of Bitcoin payment apps, caused a stir the other day when he posted several tweets saying anonymous apps are bad for society.
"There are other systems in past & present designed to encourage negative behavior, tearing people down, making fellow souls sad," he wrote in one tweet. Andreessen didn't call out Secret, Whisper or any other similar apps by name, but it was clear what he was talking about and that he views such apps as havens for negativity and hate.
To its credit, Secret has tried its best to tamp down the nasty posts. Its app now shows a warning to users not to post anything defamatory or insensitive about other people. Otherwise, Secret says it has the right to remove such posts.
Whisper doesn't seem to have the same scandalous cloud hanging over it that Secret does, mostly because it has a team of human editors monitoring posts for naughty content. Meanwhile, Whisper's broader strategy under its newly hired editor-in-chief, Neetzan Zimmerman, is to encourage its users to break news. In fact, Whisper has teamed with BuzzFeed editors to curate news and trends from its anonymous posts.
Still, it's shaky to trust a nugget of news posted anonymously on an app used predominately by a younger audience. For example, Whisper in February claimed one of its users broke a story that actress Gwyneth Paltrow was supposedly cheating on her husband, singer Chris Martin.
Whisper's claims were met with the appropriate skepticism, and a rep for Paltrow issued a statement saying the Whisper post was "100% false." (However, she and Martin did announce their separation last month.)
Perhaps that taps into the essence of why Andreessen and others aren't convinced anonymous social networks can be a long-term success. They may rise to popularity by allowing users to say whatever they want about anyone, without any repercussions. But over time you risk building a network full of lies and hate.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Steve Kovach.
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updated 11:17 AM EDT 04.02.14
Why anonymous social networks are
SCARY
http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/02/tech/social-media/secret-apps-business-insider/index.html?c=tech
By Steve Kovach, Business Insider
(CNN) - In late 2007, a social network called Juicy Campus started going viral at a handful of colleges.
But unlike Facebook, which saw a similar buzz three years earlier as a fast-spreading social network conquering one university after another, Juicy Campus encouraged its users to talk about each other, not themselves. Instead of posting party photos and calls for homework help, Juicy Campus was a social network designed to spread gossip about your peers. And to get the best gossip, Juicy Campus let its users post anonymously.
You can imagine where that went. After posts of students' sexual exploits and even personal threats began to spread across Juicy Campus, some colleges attempted to block their servers from accessing the site. Fortunately, Juicy Campus didn't last long and was dead by early 2009 because it couldn't generate enough advertising revenue to stay afloat.
Today, there's a new resurgence in anonymous social networks and messaging apps, which seem to be gaining traction in light of Edward Snowden's revelations that the National Security Agency has access to just about everything we do online.
Some big-name investors are pumping millions into these startups, hoping one will be the next big thing to take off. There are apps such as Confide and Wickr that let you send self-destructing text or photo messages. There's Telegram, which bills itself as a more private alternative to WhatsApp. And we've all heard of Snapchat.
But two other anonymous social networks seem to have captured the attention of plugged-in techies and venture capitalists more than anything else: Whisper and Secret.
Both apps have received heavy financial backing. Whisper recently raised a huge $30 million round, just months after raising $21 million. Secret snagged $8.6 million from big investors such as Google Ventures. And both apps have triggered a debate about whether or not anonymous apps that encourage the spread of gossip are good for the online community as a whole.
By allowing users to post anonymously, these apps encourage such personal confessions as, "I have extreme feelings of rage when people around me chew or drink too loudly." But they also may eventually enable hateful and defamatory gossip about people. There's also concern that people will post secrets and news that are just plain wrong, but get spun into the record as gospel.
We're already seeing evidence of it, at least with Secret, which launched two months ago and has seen its share of scandalous posts. I can tell you that my feed alone, which comes from a network of friends in my iPhone's address book and "friends of friends," is full of caustic gossip about venture capitalists, sexism in tech, and a healthy amount of explicit sexual fantasies. In short, it's not quite the kind of content a new startup with a fresh round of funding wants to be hosting.
Secret has already taken a toll on some folks in the tech industry. Earlier this month, there was the case of Julie Ann Horvath, a former developer at GitHub who alleged harassment by her bosses after someone on Secret accused her of lying about her contributions to the company. Her tweets on the issue led to the suspension of one of GitHub's founders, pending an investigation.
Legendary venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, who has invested in almost every major startup in recent years, from Facebook to the recent crop of Bitcoin payment apps, caused a stir the other day when he posted several tweets saying anonymous apps are bad for society.
"There are other systems in past & present designed to encourage negative behavior, tearing people down, making fellow souls sad," he wrote in one tweet. Andreessen didn't call out Secret, Whisper or any other similar apps by name, but it was clear what he was talking about and that he views such apps as havens for negativity and hate.
To its credit, Secret has tried its best to tamp down the nasty posts. Its app now shows a warning to users not to post anything defamatory or insensitive about other people. Otherwise, Secret says it has the right to remove such posts.
Whisper doesn't seem to have the same scandalous cloud hanging over it that Secret does, mostly because it has a team of human editors monitoring posts for naughty content. Meanwhile, Whisper's broader strategy under its newly hired editor-in-chief, Neetzan Zimmerman, is to encourage its users to break news. In fact, Whisper has teamed with BuzzFeed editors to curate news and trends from its anonymous posts.
Still, it's shaky to trust a nugget of news posted anonymously on an app used predominately by a younger audience. For example, Whisper in February claimed one of its users broke a story that actress Gwyneth Paltrow was supposedly cheating on her husband, singer Chris Martin.
Whisper's claims were met with the appropriate skepticism, and a rep for Paltrow issued a statement saying the Whisper post was "100% false." (However, she and Martin did announce their separation last month.)
Perhaps that taps into the essence of why Andreessen and others aren't convinced anonymous social networks can be a long-term success. They may rise to popularity by allowing users to say whatever they want about anyone, without any repercussions. But over time you risk building a network full of lies and hate.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Steve Kovach.
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Re: Why anonymous social networks are scary (FairfaxUnderground.com included)
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Date: April 03, 2014 11:17PM
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> This article delineates the hazards of
> FairfaxUnderground.com
>
>
> updated 11:17 AM EDT 04.02.14
> Why anonymous social networks are size=7> color="yellow">
>
>
>
> color="black">http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/02/tec
> h/social-media/secret-apps-business-insider/index.
> html?c=tech
>
>
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> This article delineates the hazards of
> FairfaxUnderground.com
>
>
> updated 11:17 AM EDT 04.02.14
> Why anonymous social networks are size=7> color="yellow">
SCARY
>
>
>
> color="black">http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/02/tec
> h/social-media/secret-apps-business-insider/index.
> html?c=tech
>
>
> By Steve Kovach, Business Insider
>
> (CNN) - In late 2007, a social network called
> Juicy Campus started going viral at a handful of
> colleges.
>
> But unlike Facebook, which saw a similar buzz
> three years earlier as a fast-spreading social
> network conquering one university after another,
> Juicy Campus encouraged its users to talk about
> each other, not themselves. Instead of posting
> party photos and calls for homework help, Juicy
> Campus was a social network designed to spread
> gossip about your peers. And to get the best
> gossip, Juicy Campus let its users post
> anonymously.
>
> You can imagine where that went. After posts of
> students' sexual exploits and even personal
> threats began to spread across Juicy Campus, some
> colleges attempted to block their servers from
> accessing the site. Fortunately, Juicy Campus
> didn't last long and was dead by early 2009
> because it couldn't generate enough advertising
> revenue to stay afloat.
>
> Today, there's a new resurgence in anonymous
> social networks and messaging apps, which seem to
> be gaining traction in light of Edward Snowden's
> revelations that the National Security Agency has
> access to just about everything we do online.
>
> Some big-name investors are pumping millions into
> these startups, hoping one will be the next big
> thing to take off. There are apps such as Confide
> and Wickr that let you send self-destructing text
> or photo messages. There's Telegram, which bills
> itself as a more private alternative to WhatsApp.
> And we've all heard of Snapchat.
>
> But two other anonymous social networks seem to
> have captured the attention of plugged-in techies
> and venture capitalists more than anything else:
> Whisper and Secret.
>
> Both apps have received heavy financial backing.
> Whisper recently raised a huge $30 million round,
> just months after raising $21 million. Secret
> snagged $8.6 million from big investors such as
> Google Ventures. And both apps have triggered a
> debate about whether or not anonymous apps that
> encourage the spread of gossip are good for the
> online community as a whole.
>
> By allowing users to post anonymously, these apps
> encourage such personal confessions as, "I have
> extreme feelings of rage when people around me
> chew or drink too loudly." But they also may
> eventually enable hateful and defamatory gossip
> about people. There's also concern that people
> will post secrets and news that are just plain
> wrong, but get spun into the record as gospel.
>
> We're already seeing evidence of it, at least with
> Secret, which launched two months ago and has seen
> its share of scandalous posts. I can tell you that
> my feed alone, which comes from a network of
> friends in my iPhone's address book and "friends
> of friends," is full of caustic gossip about
> venture capitalists, sexism in tech, and a healthy
> amount of explicit sexual fantasies. In short,
> it's not quite the kind of content a new startup
> with a fresh round of funding wants to be
> hosting.
>
> Secret has already taken a toll on some folks in
> the tech industry. Earlier this month, there was
> the case of Julie Ann Horvath, a former developer
> at GitHub who alleged harassment by her bosses
> after someone on Secret accused her of lying about
> her contributions to the company. Her tweets on
> the issue led to the suspension of one of GitHub's
> founders, pending an investigation.
>
> Legendary venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, who
> has invested in almost every major startup in
> recent years, from Facebook to the recent crop of
> Bitcoin payment apps, caused a stir the other day
> when he posted several tweets saying anonymous
> apps are bad for society.
>
> "There are other systems in past & present
> designed to encourage negative behavior, tearing
> people down, making fellow souls sad," he wrote in
> one tweet. Andreessen didn't call out Secret,
> Whisper or any other similar apps by name, but it
> was clear what he was talking about and that he
> views such apps as havens for negativity and
> hate.
>
> To its credit, Secret has tried its best to tamp
> down the nasty posts. Its app now shows a warning
> to users not to post anything defamatory or
> insensitive about other people. Otherwise, Secret
> says it has the right to remove such posts.
>
> Whisper doesn't seem to have the same scandalous
> cloud hanging over it that Secret does, mostly
> because it has a team of human editors monitoring
> posts for naughty content. Meanwhile, Whisper's
> broader strategy under its newly hired
> editor-in-chief, Neetzan Zimmerman, is to
> encourage its users to break news. In fact,
> Whisper has teamed with BuzzFeed editors to curate
> news and trends from its anonymous posts.
>
> Still, it's shaky to trust a nugget of news posted
> anonymously on an app used predominately by a
> younger audience. For example, Whisper in February
> claimed one of its users broke a story that
> actress Gwyneth Paltrow was supposedly cheating on
> her husband, singer Chris Martin.
>
> Whisper's claims were met with the appropriate
> skepticism, and a rep for Paltrow issued a
> statement saying the Whisper post was "100%
> false." (However, she and Martin did announce
> their separation last month.)
>
> Perhaps that taps into the essence of why
> Andreessen and others aren't convinced anonymous
> social networks can be a long-term success. They
> may rise to popularity by allowing users to say
> whatever they want about anyone, without any
> repercussions. But over time you risk building a
> network full of lies and hate.
>
> The opinions expressed in this commentary are
> solely those of Steve Kovach.
> CNN Home Next Article
> SHARE THIS
> Email »
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Date: April 03, 2014 11:23PM
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> > FairfaxUnderground.com
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> > updated 11:17 AM EDT 04.02.14
> > Why anonymous social networks are > size=7> > color="yellow">
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> color="black">http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/02/tec
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> h/social-media/secret-apps-business-insider/index.
>
> > html?c=tech
> >
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>
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> This bad. real real bad! Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > This article delineates the hazards of
> > FairfaxUnderground.com
> >
> >
> > updated 11:17 AM EDT 04.02.14
> > Why anonymous social networks are > size=7> > color="yellow">
SCARY
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> color="black">http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/02/tec
>
> >
> h/social-media/secret-apps-business-insider/index.
>
> > html?c=tech
> >
> >
>
> > By Steve Kovach, Business Insider
> >
> > (CNN) - In late 2007, a social network called
> > Juicy Campus started going viral at a handful
> of
> > colleges.
> >
> > But unlike Facebook, which saw a similar buzz
> > three years earlier as a fast-spreading social
> > network conquering one university after
> another,
> > Juicy Campus encouraged its users to talk about
> > each other, not themselves. Instead of posting
> > party photos and calls for homework help, Juicy
> > Campus was a social network designed to spread
> > gossip about your peers. And to get the best
> > gossip, Juicy Campus let its users post
> > anonymously.
> >
> > You can imagine where that went. After posts of
> > students' sexual exploits and even personal
> > threats began to spread across Juicy Campus,
> some
> > colleges attempted to block their servers from
> > accessing the site. Fortunately, Juicy Campus
> > didn't last long and was dead by early 2009
> > because it couldn't generate enough advertising
> > revenue to stay afloat.
> >
> > Today, there's a new resurgence in anonymous
> > social networks and messaging apps, which seem
> to
> > be gaining traction in light of Edward
> Snowden's
> > revelations that the National Security Agency
> has
> > access to just about everything we do online.
> >
> > Some big-name investors are pumping millions
> into
> > these startups, hoping one will be the next big
> > thing to take off. There are apps such as
> Confide
> > and Wickr that let you send self-destructing
> text
> > or photo messages. There's Telegram, which
> bills
> > itself as a more private alternative to
> WhatsApp.
> > And we've all heard of Snapchat.
> >
> > But two other anonymous social networks seem to
> > have captured the attention of plugged-in
> techies
> > and venture capitalists more than anything
> else:
> > Whisper and Secret.
> >
> > Both apps have received heavy financial
> backing.
> > Whisper recently raised a huge $30 million
> round,
> > just months after raising $21 million. Secret
> > snagged $8.6 million from big investors such as
> > Google Ventures. And both apps have triggered a
> > debate about whether or not anonymous apps that
> > encourage the spread of gossip are good for the
> > online community as a whole.
> >
> > By allowing users to post anonymously, these
> apps
> > encourage such personal confessions as, "I have
> > extreme feelings of rage when people around me
> > chew or drink too loudly." But they also may
> > eventually enable hateful and defamatory gossip
> > about people. There's also concern that people
> > will post secrets and news that are just plain
> > wrong, but get spun into the record as gospel.
> >
> > We're already seeing evidence of it, at least
> with
> > Secret, which launched two months ago and has
> seen
> > its share of scandalous posts. I can tell you
> that
> > my feed alone, which comes from a network of
> > friends in my iPhone's address book and
> "friends
> > of friends," is full of caustic gossip about
> > venture capitalists, sexism in tech, and a
> healthy
> > amount of explicit sexual fantasies. In short,
> > it's not quite the kind of content a new
> startup
> > with a fresh round of funding wants to be
> > hosting.
> >
> > Secret has already taken a toll on some folks
> in
> > the tech industry. Earlier this month, there
> was
> > the case of Julie Ann Horvath, a former
> developer
> > at GitHub who alleged harassment by her bosses
> > after someone on Secret accused her of lying
> about
> > her contributions to the company. Her tweets on
> > the issue led to the suspension of one of
> GitHub's
> > founders, pending an investigation.
> >
> > Legendary venture capitalist Marc Andreessen,
> who
> > has invested in almost every major startup in
> > recent years, from Facebook to the recent crop
> of
> > Bitcoin payment apps, caused a stir the other
> day
> > when he posted several tweets saying anonymous
> > apps are bad for society.
> >
> > "There are other systems in past & present
> > designed to encourage negative behavior,
> tearing
> > people down, making fellow souls sad," he wrote
> in
> > one tweet. Andreessen didn't call out Secret,
> > Whisper or any other similar apps by name, but
> it
> > was clear what he was talking about and that he
> > views such apps as havens for negativity and
> > hate.
> >
> > To its credit, Secret has tried its best to
> tamp
> > down the nasty posts. Its app now shows a
> warning
> > to users not to post anything defamatory or
> > insensitive about other people. Otherwise,
> Secret
> > says it has the right to remove such posts.
> >
> > Whisper doesn't seem to have the same
> scandalous
> > cloud hanging over it that Secret does, mostly
> > because it has a team of human editors
> monitoring
> > posts for naughty content. Meanwhile, Whisper's
> > broader strategy under its newly hired
> > editor-in-chief, Neetzan Zimmerman, is to
> > encourage its users to break news. In fact,
> > Whisper has teamed with BuzzFeed editors to
> curate
> > news and trends from its anonymous posts.
> >
> > Still, it's shaky to trust a nugget of news
> posted
> > anonymously on an app used predominately by a
> > younger audience. For example, Whisper in
> February
> > claimed one of its users broke a story that
> > actress Gwyneth Paltrow was supposedly cheating
> on
> > her husband, singer Chris Martin.
> >
> > Whisper's claims were met with the appropriate
> > skepticism, and a rep for Paltrow issued a
> > statement saying the Whisper post was "100%
> > false." (However, she and Martin did announce
> > their separation last month.)
> >
> > Perhaps that taps into the essence of why
> > Andreessen and others aren't convinced
> anonymous
> > social networks can be a long-term success.
> They
> > may rise to popularity by allowing users to say
> > whatever they want about anyone, without any
> > repercussions. But over time you risk building
> a
> > network full of lies and hate.
> >
> > The opinions expressed in this commentary are
> > solely those of Steve Kovach.
> > CNN Home Next Article
> > SHARE THIS
> > Email »
>
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Re: Why anonymous social networks are scary (FairfaxUnderground.com included)
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Date: April 03, 2014 11:57PM
Fruppie Wrote:
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> let me make that bigger 4 u Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > This bad. real real bad! Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > This article delineates the hazards of
> > > FairfaxUnderground.com
> > >
> > >
> > > updated 11:17 AM EDT 04.02.14
Why anonymous social networks are
http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/02/tech/social-media/secret-apps-business-insider/index.html?c=tech
> > >
> > >
> >
> > > By Steve Kovach, Business Insider
> > >
> > > (CNN) - In late 2007, a social network called
> > > Juicy Campus started going viral at a handful
> > of
> > > colleges.
> > >
> > > But unlike Facebook, which saw a similar buzz
> > > three years earlier as a fast-spreading
> social
> > > network conquering one university after
> > another,
> > > Juicy Campus encouraged its users to talk
> about
> > > each other, not themselves. Instead of
> posting
> > > party photos and calls for homework help,
> Juicy
> > > Campus was a social network designed to
> spread
> > > gossip about your peers. And to get the best
> > > gossip, Juicy Campus let its users post
> > > anonymously.
> > >
> > > You can imagine where that went. After posts
> of
> > > students' sexual exploits and even personal
> > > threats began to spread across Juicy Campus,
> > some
> > > colleges attempted to block their servers
> from
> > > accessing the site. Fortunately, Juicy Campus
> > > didn't last long and was dead by early 2009
> > > because it couldn't generate enough
> advertising
> > > revenue to stay afloat.
> > >
> > > Today, there's a new resurgence in anonymous
> > > social networks and messaging apps, which
> seem
> > to
> > > be gaining traction in light of Edward
> > Snowden's
> > > revelations that the National Security Agency
> > has
> > > access to just about everything we do online.
> > >
> > > Some big-name investors are pumping millions
> > into
> > > these startups, hoping one will be the next
> big
> > > thing to take off. There are apps such as
> > Confide
> > > and Wickr that let you send self-destructing
> > text
> > > or photo messages. There's Telegram, which
> > bills
> > > itself as a more private alternative to
> > WhatsApp.
> > > And we've all heard of Snapchat.
> > >
> > > But two other anonymous social networks seem
> to
> > > have captured the attention of plugged-in
> > techies
> > > and venture capitalists more than anything
> > else:
> > > Whisper and Secret.
> > >
> > > Both apps have received heavy financial
> > backing.
> > > Whisper recently raised a huge $30 million
> > round,
> > > just months after raising $21 million. Secret
> > > snagged $8.6 million from big investors such
> as
> > > Google Ventures. And both apps have triggered
> a
> > > debate about whether or not anonymous apps
> that
> > > encourage the spread of gossip are good for
> the
> > > online community as a whole.
> > >
> > > By allowing users to post anonymously, these
> > apps
> > > encourage such personal confessions as, "I
> have
> > > extreme feelings of rage when people around
> me
> > > chew or drink too loudly." But they also may
> > > eventually enable hateful and defamatory
> gossip
> > > about people. There's also concern that
> people
> > > will post secrets and news that are just
> plain
> > > wrong, but get spun into the record as
> gospel.
> > >
> > > We're already seeing evidence of it, at least
> > with
> > > Secret, which launched two months ago and has
> > seen
> > > its share of scandalous posts. I can tell you
> > that
> > > my feed alone, which comes from a network of
> > > friends in my iPhone's address book and
> > "friends
> > > of friends," is full of caustic gossip about
> > > venture capitalists, sexism in tech, and a
> > healthy
> > > amount of explicit sexual fantasies. In
> short,
> > > it's not quite the kind of content a new
> > startup
> > > with a fresh round of funding wants to be
> > > hosting.
> > >
> > > Secret has already taken a toll on some folks
> > in
> > > the tech industry. Earlier this month, there
> > was
> > > the case of Julie Ann Horvath, a former
> > developer
> > > at GitHub who alleged harassment by her
> bosses
> > > after someone on Secret accused her of lying
> > about
> > > her contributions to the company. Her tweets
> on
> > > the issue led to the suspension of one of
> > GitHub's
> > > founders, pending an investigation.
> > >
> > > Legendary venture capitalist Marc Andreessen,
> > who
> > > has invested in almost every major startup in
> > > recent years, from Facebook to the recent
> crop
> > of
> > > Bitcoin payment apps, caused a stir the other
> > day
> > > when he posted several tweets saying
> anonymous
> > > apps are bad for society.
> > >
> > > "There are other systems in past & present
> > > designed to encourage negative behavior,
> > tearing
> > > people down, making fellow souls sad," he
> wrote
> > in
> > > one tweet. Andreessen didn't call out Secret,
> > > Whisper or any other similar apps by name,
> but
> > it
> > > was clear what he was talking about and that
> he
> > > views such apps as havens for negativity and
> > > hate.
> > >
> > > To its credit, Secret has tried its best to
> > tamp
> > > down the nasty posts. Its app now shows a
> > warning
> > > to users not to post anything defamatory or
> > > insensitive about other people. Otherwise,
> > Secret
> > > says it has the right to remove such posts.
> > >
> > > Whisper doesn't seem to have the same
> > scandalous
> > > cloud hanging over it that Secret does,
> mostly
> > > because it has a team of human editors
> > monitoring
> > > posts for naughty content. Meanwhile,
> Whisper's
> > > broader strategy under its newly hired
> > > editor-in-chief, Neetzan Zimmerman, is to
> > > encourage its users to break news. In fact,
> > > Whisper has teamed with BuzzFeed editors to
> > curate
> > > news and trends from its anonymous posts.
> > >
> > > Still, it's shaky to trust a nugget of news
> > posted
> > > anonymously on an app used predominately by a
> > > younger audience. For example, Whisper in
> > February
> > > claimed one of its users broke a story that
> > > actress Gwyneth Paltrow was supposedly
> cheating
> > on
> > > her husband, singer Chris Martin.
> > >
> > > Whisper's claims were met with the
> appropriate
> > > skepticism, and a rep for Paltrow issued a
> > > statement saying the Whisper post was "100%
> > > false." (However, she and Martin did announce
> > > their separation last month.)
> > >
> > > Perhaps that taps into the essence of why
> > > Andreessen and others aren't convinced
> > anonymous
> > > social networks can be a long-term success.
> > They
> > > may rise to popularity by allowing users to
> say
> > > whatever they want about anyone, without any
> > > repercussions. But over time you risk
> building
> > a
> > > network full of lies and hate.
> > >
> > > The opinions expressed in this commentary are
> > > solely those of Steve Kovach.
> > > CNN Home Next Article
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> >
>
> That's stupid.
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> > > This article delineates the hazards of
> > > FairfaxUnderground.com
> > >
> > >
> > > updated 11:17 AM EDT 04.02.14
Why anonymous social networks are
SCARY
http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/02/tech/social-media/secret-apps-business-insider/index.html?c=tech
> > >
> > >
> >
> > > By Steve Kovach, Business Insider
> > >
> > > (CNN) - In late 2007, a social network called
> > > Juicy Campus started going viral at a handful
> > of
> > > colleges.
> > >
> > > But unlike Facebook, which saw a similar buzz
> > > three years earlier as a fast-spreading
> social
> > > network conquering one university after
> > another,
> > > Juicy Campus encouraged its users to talk
> about
> > > each other, not themselves. Instead of
> posting
> > > party photos and calls for homework help,
> Juicy
> > > Campus was a social network designed to
> spread
> > > gossip about your peers. And to get the best
> > > gossip, Juicy Campus let its users post
> > > anonymously.
> > >
> > > You can imagine where that went. After posts
> of
> > > students' sexual exploits and even personal
> > > threats began to spread across Juicy Campus,
> > some
> > > colleges attempted to block their servers
> from
> > > accessing the site. Fortunately, Juicy Campus
> > > didn't last long and was dead by early 2009
> > > because it couldn't generate enough
> advertising
> > > revenue to stay afloat.
> > >
> > > Today, there's a new resurgence in anonymous
> > > social networks and messaging apps, which
> seem
> > to
> > > be gaining traction in light of Edward
> > Snowden's
> > > revelations that the National Security Agency
> > has
> > > access to just about everything we do online.
> > >
> > > Some big-name investors are pumping millions
> > into
> > > these startups, hoping one will be the next
> big
> > > thing to take off. There are apps such as
> > Confide
> > > and Wickr that let you send self-destructing
> > text
> > > or photo messages. There's Telegram, which
> > bills
> > > itself as a more private alternative to
> > WhatsApp.
> > > And we've all heard of Snapchat.
> > >
> > > But two other anonymous social networks seem
> to
> > > have captured the attention of plugged-in
> > techies
> > > and venture capitalists more than anything
> > else:
> > > Whisper and Secret.
> > >
> > > Both apps have received heavy financial
> > backing.
> > > Whisper recently raised a huge $30 million
> > round,
> > > just months after raising $21 million. Secret
> > > snagged $8.6 million from big investors such
> as
> > > Google Ventures. And both apps have triggered
> a
> > > debate about whether or not anonymous apps
> that
> > > encourage the spread of gossip are good for
> the
> > > online community as a whole.
> > >
> > > By allowing users to post anonymously, these
> > apps
> > > encourage such personal confessions as, "I
> have
> > > extreme feelings of rage when people around
> me
> > > chew or drink too loudly." But they also may
> > > eventually enable hateful and defamatory
> gossip
> > > about people. There's also concern that
> people
> > > will post secrets and news that are just
> plain
> > > wrong, but get spun into the record as
> gospel.
> > >
> > > We're already seeing evidence of it, at least
> > with
> > > Secret, which launched two months ago and has
> > seen
> > > its share of scandalous posts. I can tell you
> > that
> > > my feed alone, which comes from a network of
> > > friends in my iPhone's address book and
> > "friends
> > > of friends," is full of caustic gossip about
> > > venture capitalists, sexism in tech, and a
> > healthy
> > > amount of explicit sexual fantasies. In
> short,
> > > it's not quite the kind of content a new
> > startup
> > > with a fresh round of funding wants to be
> > > hosting.
> > >
> > > Secret has already taken a toll on some folks
> > in
> > > the tech industry. Earlier this month, there
> > was
> > > the case of Julie Ann Horvath, a former
> > developer
> > > at GitHub who alleged harassment by her
> bosses
> > > after someone on Secret accused her of lying
> > about
> > > her contributions to the company. Her tweets
> on
> > > the issue led to the suspension of one of
> > GitHub's
> > > founders, pending an investigation.
> > >
> > > Legendary venture capitalist Marc Andreessen,
> > who
> > > has invested in almost every major startup in
> > > recent years, from Facebook to the recent
> crop
> > of
> > > Bitcoin payment apps, caused a stir the other
> > day
> > > when he posted several tweets saying
> anonymous
> > > apps are bad for society.
> > >
> > > "There are other systems in past & present
> > > designed to encourage negative behavior,
> > tearing
> > > people down, making fellow souls sad," he
> wrote
> > in
> > > one tweet. Andreessen didn't call out Secret,
> > > Whisper or any other similar apps by name,
> but
> > it
> > > was clear what he was talking about and that
> he
> > > views such apps as havens for negativity and
> > > hate.
> > >
> > > To its credit, Secret has tried its best to
> > tamp
> > > down the nasty posts. Its app now shows a
> > warning
> > > to users not to post anything defamatory or
> > > insensitive about other people. Otherwise,
> > Secret
> > > says it has the right to remove such posts.
> > >
> > > Whisper doesn't seem to have the same
> > scandalous
> > > cloud hanging over it that Secret does,
> mostly
> > > because it has a team of human editors
> > monitoring
> > > posts for naughty content. Meanwhile,
> Whisper's
> > > broader strategy under its newly hired
> > > editor-in-chief, Neetzan Zimmerman, is to
> > > encourage its users to break news. In fact,
> > > Whisper has teamed with BuzzFeed editors to
> > curate
> > > news and trends from its anonymous posts.
> > >
> > > Still, it's shaky to trust a nugget of news
> > posted
> > > anonymously on an app used predominately by a
> > > younger audience. For example, Whisper in
> > February
> > > claimed one of its users broke a story that
> > > actress Gwyneth Paltrow was supposedly
> cheating
> > on
> > > her husband, singer Chris Martin.
> > >
> > > Whisper's claims were met with the
> appropriate
> > > skepticism, and a rep for Paltrow issued a
> > > statement saying the Whisper post was "100%
> > > false." (However, she and Martin did announce
> > > their separation last month.)
> > >
> > > Perhaps that taps into the essence of why
> > > Andreessen and others aren't convinced
> > anonymous
> > > social networks can be a long-term success.
> > They
> > > may rise to popularity by allowing users to
> say
> > > whatever they want about anyone, without any
> > > repercussions. But over time you risk
> building
> > a
> > > network full of lies and hate.
> > >
> > > The opinions expressed in this commentary are
> > > solely those of Steve Kovach.
> > > CNN Home Next Article
> > > SHARE THIS
> > > Email »
> >
>
> That's stupid.
Why do you say that
Re: Why anonymous social networks are scary (FairfaxUnderground.com included)
Posted by:
Nopey Noperson
()
Date: April 04, 2014 12:14AM
huh?
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Re: Why anonymous social networks are scary (FairfaxUnderground.com included)
Posted by:
jMUpe
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Date: April 04, 2014 12:16AM
Nopey Noperson Wrote:
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> huh?
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Video source for that animated gif?
Re: Why anonymous social networks are scary (FairfaxUnderground.com included)
Posted by:
Nopey Noperson
()
Date: April 04, 2014 12:23AM
jMUpe Wrote:
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lol, good question. I truly have no idea. Found the gif on 4chan.
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> > huh?
>
>
> Video source for that animated gif?
lol, good question. I truly have no idea. Found the gif on 4chan.
Re: Why anonymous social networks are scary (FairfaxUnderground.com included)
Posted by:
Video source indeed
()
Date: April 04, 2014 12:27AM
Nopey Noperson Wrote:
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> > Nopey Noperson Wrote:
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> > > huh?
> >
> >
> > Video source for that animated gif?
>
>
> lol, good question. I truly have no idea. Found
> the gif on 4chan.
Video-source gif indeed
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> jMUpe Wrote:
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> > Nopey Noperson Wrote:
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> > -----
> > > huh?
> >
> >
> > Video source for that animated gif?
>
>
> lol, good question. I truly have no idea. Found
> the gif on 4chan.
Video-source gif indeed
Re: who is _____ fucking from channel _ news?
Posted by:
gossip please
()
Date: April 04, 2014 07:33PM
Maybe it is bad maybe it isnt..I havent heard anyone tell me no sexual exploits of our local news anchors, so, anonymous cant be that bad. Whats that? You say you got the dirt. Then spill it!
Re: who is _____ fucking from channel _ news?
Posted by:
AngieGoff
()
Date: April 04, 2014 07:42PM
Pics, or it didn't happen
Re: Why anonymous social networks are scary (FairfaxUnderground.com included)
Posted by:
v7LeG
()
Date: April 05, 2014 07:59PM
because CNN cannot prevent free speech and support coverups of killing poor republicans if media giants cannot shut down other web sites
Re: Why anonymous social networks are scary (FairfaxUnderground.com included)
Posted by:
The thing is..
()
Date: April 05, 2014 11:33PM
That fat mexican perra with the fake accent on NBC4 has a nice pair of tits. Yeah, I'm talking about you Erika Gonzalez..
Re: Why anonymous social networks are scary (FairfaxUnderground.com included)
Posted by:
Ananomous
()
Date: April 08, 2014 02:14PM
It is scary
Re: Why anonymous social networks are scary (FairfaxUnderground.com included)
Posted by:
It is scary
()
Date: April 09, 2014 02:46PM
It's scary because people hide behind a computer and say whatever you want