Anonymous Apps

Anonymous apps, such as the Whisper and YikYak, are becoming more and more popular these days. These apps allows the user to post whatever they like anonymously. I think that it is a really good idea because it allows you to take off that imaginary mask that we all wear in front of people adn just be oursleves. Or sometimes you just have something that you need to tell  but you can't. For example, people who are sucidial might not want to tell their parents or friends that they are having a hard time. So instead of keeping it in, they can post it on these apps and no one will know who it is. Then people who sympathize with that person and wants to help them, can send supporting and helpful comments to their post. The idea is great but in the end, it wasn't used the way we would like it to. Just like in every online comment section, there will be trolls, who just want to make people mad. I remembered there was this one yak, on YokYak, where someone posted the type of girls that he didn't like. But because of the way he worded it, it sounded like he was fat-shaming people. And this lead to up an huge argument and a lot of downvotes. This could make some people upset because they didn't get the escape from reality that they wanted from this app. Also since YikYak, has a location system, the people that can see your yak are the people in the area near you. There was this one case where a girl got bullied through YikYak because the bullies were able to post nasty comments about her and know that they won't get caught since it was all anonymous. However, since that girl was from a small town, it was very easy to figure out who the bullies were talking about. In the end, the CEO promised her that he will do something about it, but later upgrades YikYak so that one can post pictures anonymously. How do you think that girl will feel now? She is probably more depressed since now her bullies can post pictures of her and no one can do anything about it since it's all anonymous. I feel that YikYak is a good idea but it's being used for in the wrong reasons.