Yik Yak Is Testing A Photo Feature On Some Campuses

Yik Yak, the anonymous messaging app, is testing a new feature that would let users share photos, Mashable has learned.Yik Yak is in the early stages of testing the feature on some college campuses for limited periods of time, sometimes as brief as several hours, in order to get feedback from users, according to sources familiar with the matter. Yik Yak confirmed the development to Mashable.
TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Rob LEVER, US-IT-Internet-teen-trend A March 28, 2014 photo illustration shows the Google Play Store download page for an anonymous social networking app in Washington, DC. When a new social app Yik Yak swept into Auburn University, some of the coolest kids started posting comments on it. But no one knows who is making the comments, because the posts are anonymous. 'It spread pretty fast,' says Nickolaus Hines, a junior at the Alabama university. 'The majority of things are jokes or things which are obviously funny.' But Hines added that 'some of the things are pretty mean,' and that 'the ones about girls get taken off if the girls see them.' Yik Yak, which allows users to see posts in a radius up to eight kiolometers (five miles) is part of a flurry of new apps which offer new ways to interact anonymously in social networks. AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Rob LEVER, US-IT-Internet-teen-trend A March 28, 2014 photo illustration shows the Google Play Store download page for an anonymous social networking app in Washington, DC. When a new social app Yik Yak swept into Auburn University, some of the coolest kids started posting comments on it. But no one knows who is making the comments, because the posts are anonymous. 'It spread pretty fast,' says Nickolaus Hines, a junior at the Alabama university. 'The majority of things are jokes or things which are obviously funny.' But Hines added that 'some of the things are pretty mean,' and that 'the ones about girls get taken off if the girls see them.' Yik Yak, which allows users to see posts in a radius up to eight kiolometers (five miles) is part of a flurry of new apps which offer new ways to interact anonymously in social networks. AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Yik Yak, the anonymous messaging app, is testing a new feature that would let users share photos, Mashable has learned.

Yik Yak is in the early stages of testing the feature on some college campuses for limited periods of time, sometimes as brief as several hours, in order to get feedback from users, according to sources familiar with the matter. Yik Yak confirmed the development to Mashable.

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