Tellonym, an anonymous messaging app, is freaking parents out
An app is once again making it easier for teens to talk trash about each other.
There is growing worry among parents, digital watchdog organizations, and schools about an app called Tellonym. The app lets users ask and answer questions about each other anonymously — a concept that the app creators hope will encourage open and honest conversation, but experts say is enabling cyberbullying and cruelty.
Founded in 2016 by a trio of teenaged students in Germany, Tellonym says on the App Store that it has 13 million users worldwide; the app monitoring service SensorTower reports that the app had 600,000 downloads in January 2019. Tellonym CEO Maximillian Rellin says that 13 million is an "outdated" figure, but would only specify that it has more than 1 million daily users. Read more...
More about Cyberbullying, Teens, Cyber Bullying, Tellonym, and Tech
COntributer : Mashable http://bit.ly/2DB7inD
Reviewed by mimisabreena
on
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Rating:
No comments:
Post a Comment