Yik Yak App - A Parents Social Media Safety Guide

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What is the Yik Yak App?
Free mobile app
Different than Facebook & Secret App: Share anonymous messages with users around you.
Post can be found by categories:
New/Hot (Nearby)
Peek (college campus chat rooms)
Requires access to your location.
Doesn't require creating an account.
Doesn't need access to your contact list.
You have a "Yakarma" Score. It starts at 100 and can be increased or decreased when users "up" or "down" your posts.
What do kids think of Yik Yak app?
It's totally secret and no one can track them.
Kids are trying to increase their Yakarma score by sharing silly messages about their schoolmates or teacher and using swear words in their posts.
The Yak score seems to promote wild posting behavior.

How are kids using this app?
Share silly thoughts, jokes, complaints and rumours about classmates and teachers.
Fake messages about planned shooting or hidden bomb at school.
They are venting and hoping people listen.

Why should parents care?
The app is extremely popular with high school students.
Teens and tweens use Yik Yak to cyber bully other kids.
Kids could face charges for making terrorist threats, even if they were fake.
Messages are limited by location and it can identified where they are coming from.

February 2014, 16-year-old and 14-year-old were arrested after posting threats on Yik Yak.
Two teens discussed a possible campus shooting on Yik Yak in Mobile, AL.
Three schools shut down for a day because of threats.
In less than 24 hours the Police found and arrested both teenage suspects.
16 year old was charged with making terroristic threats (LA times 2014).

Yik Yak is geofencing in the US.
Geofencing disables the app within a certain radius.

Email school information to [email protected]
School name & address
Latitude & longitude of school's location (make sure that the location is dead center of the school's campus or the geofence will be ineffective -- Yik Yak recommends using this site: http://itouchmap.com/latlong.html)

What can parents do?
Have your kids delete this app and use Twitter.
Yik Yak has 17+ age restriction.
Set a restriction options on your kids' mobile device.
Explain that anonymous posts end up public and police can still find them.
If you threaten someone else you will get caught by the police.
Ask your kids if they have friends that are on this app.
Remind your kids to keep each post
"Light, Bright and Polite."
Learn more at http://SafeSmartSocial.com

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