Yik Yak now allows users to upload images, and the Featured Peek area now allows users from all over to participate in conversations (as opposed to traditional Yak conversations where you must be geographically near where the conversation is taking place). These Peek conversations are gone after
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May 2 & May 3rd, 2015 Yik Yak featured “Mayweather-Pacquiao Live!” on Peek. The fight was scheduled for May 2, 11PM ET but didn’t get started until around midnight. It was very apparent that Yik Yak users do not like Floyd Mayweather, love Manny Pacquiao, and want
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Anyone thinking of making a threat against a school or college campus via a computer or cell phone should really think twice. Not only is this a stupid idea, but you’re going to get arrested for it. Today in Greenville North Carolina a 19 Year Old ECU
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According to this article on WRAL news The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is considering banning Yik Yak. Some people say that Yik Yak encourages hate speech. It doesn’t encourage anything of the sort. The most popular yaks on the network are actually very funny.
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It should be no surprise that seniors are using social media to research things. The generation is connected and armed with smartphones. Many marketers, businesses, and colleges use social media to broadcast their message. The only problem is, it is their message. It is great to hear
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Yik Yak is an anonymous social media application. To use it, you need to install the app on your Android or iOS device. It is very similar to Twitter, except the network is “anonymous”. (Also see: Is Yik Yak Really Anonymous?) Posts are called yaks (not tweets).
Read more →Recently, I noticed Yik Yak’s Peek feature had been updated. You can now “peek” anywhere in the world. I think there is a very good chance that we could all look back on this as the most important thing to happen in social media in 2014. Here’s
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I have been meaning to write Yik Yak and will do so in just a moment. I thought I would put together a very quick article here though in case I forgot, and for future reference. People have very short attention spans these days. Ironically, it is
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I do not do much shopping, or Black Friday shopping, but this Black Friday, November 28, 2104, I was out driving someone around at midnight. We just went to 2 stores, and I waited out in the car. I read the news, checked in on Yelp, and
Read more →This morning, November 20, 2014, the news broke that was a threat on the Yik Yak app recently sent just up the road from us near UNC Chapel Hill. The threat read: “To all my friends, don’t be in the Pit tomorrow at noon. Things will be
Read more →It would be in your best interest to not post threats on Yik Yak. Here’s why. On September 1, 2014, before the new college semester started, I posted Is Yik Yak really anonymous? as I thought people might google it. They do, and a lot of people
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Below is an updated list of arrests from people making threats via the social media app Yik Yak. In a recent article Yik Yak really anonymous? we discussed the anonymity of Yik Yak, and lack of it. We concluded the article with it is anonymous for the
Read more →The app’s tagline reads: “no profile, no password, it’s all anonymous.” But, is it? Geo-location based apps like Yik Yak use Apple and Android’s location API. Are yaks really anonymous? On Yik Yak, your yaks are anonymous to other yakkers, until someone decides they are not. For
Read more →This page is no longer being updated. Below you will find “hot” yik yaks. A hot yak is the most upvoted yak at a given time. The yaks posted here are the hot yaks from areas chosen at random when I happen to check out Yik Yak.
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