Sarahah is the new sensation in the world of technology. It has become the talk of the town. Everyone on social media, be it on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Snapchat, is talking about Sarahah, an app that allow users to send anonymous messages to others registered with the app.
The highlight of Sarahah is that it doesn’t reveal the identity of the sender of the message at any given cost. This is where Sarahah stands out from other similar applications available on the Play store.
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Things you should know before downloading:
Below are all the details you should know before you start using Sarahah.
- Sarahah is a brainchild of Saudi developer ZainAlabdin Tawfiq.
- He introduced Sarahah about six months ago as a website.
- However, he later realised that Sarahah would do wonders as an app.
- That’s when he created the Sarahah app, which is now available for both Android and iOS users.
- Sarahah is Arabic term means ‘honesty’.
- The key idea behind designing the app is to allow people send creative messages to each other.
- But that’s not what has been happening,
- Instead, people are also or rather mostly -using the application as a means of cyber bullying and trolling others while keeping their identity a secret.
- After downloading the app, users will have to have to register to it with their email ID, password and user name.
- People who know your Sarahah profile link will be able to send anonymous messages.
- Further, there’s also a search bar to find who all are registered with Sarahah.
- There’ll be no name, no information about the sender of the message anywhere.
- However, because of the anonymity built in the application, some users are misusing it as a cyber bullying platform.
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Sarahah:
- Sarahah is designed in a way that allows users to send constructive messages.
- In addition,Sarahah is still in developing stage and comes with a lot of security concerns.
- There is no way to directly block a user on Sarahah.
- However, if a user receives an offensive message on Sarahah, they can simply long press on the message and block it.
- After which the user will not receive any message from the particular sender.
- Sarahah founder said that the app comes with “strict privacy policy” and no information will be revealed without the users consent.
- He further said, “We will never reveal the identity of the sender unless we get his consent to do so.
- You can see also the terms and conditions of privacy policy regarding disclosure of information about revealing the identity in certain circumstances where there is a violation.
- But if a user follows the rules and regulations of the app his/her identify and information will be completely safe and will not be revealed.
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Sarahah is becoming a self-esteem machine:
- On Facebook and Twitter, you can spot a Sarahah user through screenshots of the teal speech bubbles that hold their anonymous messages.
- The hashtag for the service is a cascade of comments in a variety of languages.
- You can’t reply to anyone on Sarahah, so some users choose to respond to their commenters this way.
- Searching through the Sarahah hashtag is a mix of people earnestly soliciting feedback, sharing their responses, or verbally rolling their eyes at the service.
- Much like posting a selfie, there’s a certain performative nature to it. People have taken to posting their compliments online as a sort of celebration.
Curiosity and craze continues:
- For users who’ve decided to take the plunge, their interest is a combination feedback and general curiosity.
- Some people say this as an eye-opening app.
- People use to comment on others profile to whom they follow online.
- Some prefers to send people compliments.
- Sarahah gives an easy way to do that.
- Being anonymous, its an interesting app.
- The anonymous nature of the platform impacts their desire to comment more, rather than the nature of comments.
- Those who are not comfortable in talking to each other in real can also communicate through this.
