Omegle, a popular website used to video chat with strangers, is shutting down after almost 15 years. The closure comes amid increasing criticism that the site endangered its users, with reports of ...

Sidechat and Fizz, two anonymous chat apps expanding to college campuses across the country, recently recruited Yalies to promote their launch at the University. The two platforms rose to prominence ...

The developers of the revived Yik Yak seem aware of the problem. Along with mental health resources and guidance on staying safe, the app's website lays out extensive "community guardrails." Yik Yak ...

Anonymous social apps are in for a reckoning. Yes, again. This week, University of North Carolina (UNC) System President Peter Hans announced a plan to block the use of popular anonymous social apps ...

WESTON — An anonymous messaging app that allows users to chat with anyone within a nearby radius is back, leading local police to issue a warning to parents. The app, Yik Yak, shut down in 2017 after ...

Secret was one of the hottest apps of the first half of the year. The ability to send anonymous messages to your friends was delicious at first, leading to a spate of wholly false acquisition rumors, ...

When the anonymous social media app YOLO was launched in May 2019, it topped the iTunes downloads chart after just one week, despite the lack of a major marketing campaign. Designed to be used with ...

Later this week, popular anonymous messaging app Kik will shut down. Just a few days ago, company CEO Ted Livingston announced that he would pull the plug on the messenger, opting instead to focus on ...

Good news, fellow millennials. Yik Yak—the anonymous messaging app once popular with college students across the country—is back. Roughly four years after the company’s co-founders announced the app’s ...