The borders of an App

Internet and mobile telephony have no borders. When we have heard this phrase! It would be true if it were not for some exceptions in the form of government censorship (see Turkey, Korea...) or protection of minors. Indeed, at physical borders we can begin to be clear that virtual borders accompany them. Això is the one that has become one of the most famous Apps of the Statistical Units and the evil has led to an important debate.

The App in question is diu Yik Yak I happen to be a new emulation of the most famous Secret. That is to say, it is a missatgeria App that offers total anonymity of the sender. In this case Yik Yak works on the basis of geolocation and only allows you to send messages and reach them when they are in a determined location with a totally delimited radius of action.

The use of this App would not be foreign and if, furthermore, users are limited to using it properly. Tot i això, it has been detected that in primary schools Use more than just communication to become a perfect focus of bullying o cyberassetjament sota l'para de l'anonymat.

“Let's be naive. We believe the application mainly for university students. “Use the application in the way we claim that it requires certain maturity and responsibility,” said one of its creators in an interview published in the American edition of theHuffington Post. It is that massa vegades is proven that maduresa and mobile telephony do not exactly go hand in hand.

The thing is that to avoid this evil, Yik Yak has opted for the solution of to set boundaries. That is to say, limit that it can be used within the school premises in which it is called “geographic block“. Since the application requires that the phone be in the right position to function, the creators have used this information to avoid its use in educational centers for minors. Various schools have contacted the development company to include them in the List of zones on deactivate the App I finally signed an agreement with the company Maponics, which possesses the locations of 100,599 schools per all Stats Units (85% of the total, according to those responsible for Yik Yak).

On the other hand, the use of this App has also been limited to the majors of 17 years in order to reach an audience that is primarily more mature and aware of the twists and turns in the use of any mobile application.

Sens dubte, però, the one who works from now on this App is the debate on minors' access to mobile telephony, the uses and restrictions of an App and, of course, the behavior of minors at school and their relationship with each other. Three fronts to analyze several problems to solve and that could be closed in the immediate future.