Why do you ask questions anonymously?

Why'd You Push That Button?

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Arts, Technology, Design

4.4 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

My Instagram followers want to know whether I like veggie chips and how many push-ups I can do in a row. The answer is no and one. On this week’s Why’d You Push That Button, Vox.com’s Kaitlyn Tiffany and I (Ashley Carman) discuss anonymous question-and-answer apps — why do people use them, both to ask and receive questions? First, I chat with my pal Vanessa about how they use Instagram’s question and answer feature to build community. Then, Kaitlyn chats with a minor Tumblr celebrity, Klaudia, about how she handles questions she’s asked and how she guides the youth of today through their lives. And finally, I interview Janis Grivins, the COO of Ask.fm, about why people ask anonymous questions and what purpose a masked identity can serve. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.8	Have you ever used an anonymous Q&A thing, like in your own personal life?
0:34.6	My middle school was like taken over by FormSpring, which just kind of blew up
0:38.6	the school. And then we had multiple assemblies on why we shouldn't be using FormSpring because it was a
0:43.3	tool for bullying. And then we then moved on to Ask. Me. Then there was, I think it was called
0:48.5	Saraha that started like when I was in my junior year of school. And then my first year of school,
0:54.0	Yik Yak was the thing that was super my junior year of school. And then my first year of school, Yick Yak
0:54.4	was the thing that was super popular, asking each other questions, but focusing it to like dorms
0:59.8	and stuff. Hello. Welcome to Why'd You Push That Button, a show where Ashley Carmen,
1:04.6	hello, and Caitlin Tiffany, that's me, examine the choices technology forces us to make. Today we're
1:10.4	talking about question apps, anonymous question features.
1:14.3	Yes, you've maybe seen these apps, websites, whatever.
1:18.1	Maybe you remember it from the Tumblr days.
1:20.5	Then there was that app that was going around like Saraha on Twitter.
1:24.6	Then there was like Curious Cat.
1:26.7	Basically just this is the feature that will never go away.
1:29.6	People seem to love to ask each other anonymous questions. And I frankly don't know why.
1:35.1	Okay. Saraha is the weirdest one I think because the tagline is literally like helps you receive
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