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Yik Yak chat app stirring up trouble in high schools
From Chicago, to Georgia, to Southern California, a new social media application is causing problems on middle school and high school campuses across the United States. It's called Yik Yak, a location-based app that creates an anonymous social chat room where up to 500 nearby users connect through GPS tracking on their phones. Less than 4 months old, Yik Yak has "a couple hundred thousand users, mainly in Southeast/East coast campuses," its co-founder Brooks Buffington said.
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I don't really understand why cell phones are allowed on school property. 15 years ago we weren't allowed gum.
I'm sure parents want their kids to be accessible on their phones that they pay for
Damn kids these days don't know the magnitude of their stupid actions.
Neither did we. The internet just means they have more potential for impact and a lot less likelihood to be hidden/forgotten. I'm glad some of my youthful stupidity wasn't archived for all time. Current kids aren't so lucky and they'll end up paying for it as adults. In fact, once they become adults, I bet they change the rules to make it where privacy is much better protected.