Yik Yak and Spartan Basketball

Well I guess I'm going to have to write this post in past tense! A couple of years ago I was in a lecture and I'd say about 50-60% of the class used Yik Yak every class. This class was my first level ISS requirement, and classmates would use the app to mention funny things our professor said or even said things as simple as "I'm hungry. Anyone wanna grab a bite to eat after class?" Yik Yak definitely made a great run at social media, but nowadays it's very rare to hear of anyone using it.

I used to use Yik Yak. I thought it was just a fun way to say all the jokes and stuff I cant post on social media because of my job. Any huge class with freshman always has a bunch of people posting about teachers or making fun of students that are doing something ridiculous. Overall, Its a pretty fun app to use annoymously and now that you can add pictures and videos annoymously, things could get a little out of hand.

I never got into Yik Yak because I just didn't like the way it was set up. It is basically an anonymous twitter for people too scared to have their name next to their mean, sexual, or just stupid 'yaks'. Yik Yak is set up to allow people to slander others with no accountability. I know one issue was people makes bomb threats or personal threats believing that they wouldn't be caught. Overall, I think it is a decent idea, but with the way society operates especially nowadays, I just can't see it lasting very much longer. Something better and more appealing will come out leaving Yik Yak in the dust (In my opinion of course).

I personally did not like yik yak. At first I didn't really understand it but I quickly caught on. I just thought it was dumb and a waste of time. It was just an anonymous thread of people ranting or putting their personal business out there, mostly sexual. It is goes by your geo location so whenever I went home all I got was a bunch of high schoolers talking about some party or local hangout or how bored they were. In a way it reminded me of whisper, another app I quickly deleted.

Yik Yak... where do I start? Well if your looking for a blind date, a drug dealer, the latest person getting hit by a car, or anything in between Yik Yak is the right app for you. People enjoy the annommous feature to say the least, but don't worry if youre trying a bash your ex boy friends, or a shitty professor by name... NO NO. Yak deleted. 

 

Besides the previously stated, it is an entertainment resource during sporting events. My favorite yaks are when MSU plays UM because MSU is obvioulsy better yet, Michigan fans love to talk shit.

 

It can also be resourceful sometimes, dont worry. If the local ice cream shop is having a sale the yik yak world is bound to know about it. Or say an answer to a test.... shhhh. 

 

Either way... GO YAK

Yik Yak is a very interesting app to say the least. During my spring semester I would go on periodically during my big lecture classes like econ or accounting and a lot of other students would be on. Another interesting thing I saw was the amount of people using it during different events like basketball games for example. I also am apart of greek life here at MSU and a lot of people will talk (good and bad) about frats and sororities on campus.

Yik Yak is a very hilarious app that I tend to use quite often while at MSU.  During class, a lot of the students will talk about the events going on during class about class.  The larger and general studies classes have large amounts of YikYak participation.

I must be odd one out, but I am not a big fan of Yik Yak. I used to use it and made a couple posts, but quickly found myself getting bored of it, yet constantly refreshing the page. I decided it was not really that much fun and deleted the app. I can see why people like it, but I just found it kinda boring. During my time on it, I certainly saw a lot of yaks by people complaining about classes, or trash talking rival football teams. I, personally, posted a couple jokes or quotes from tv, but that's it.

 

 

 

also, I had MSU winning it all :(

I just tart Yik Yak yesterday. But I can't stop it right now, it is really fun. People post their opinions online without signature, so nobody knows who post this. and also the people who replies will not shows up too. Lots of the post are joke, or interesting story. And actually in China, we have an app similar with Yik Yak, that app is very popular, but now I know the American Yik Yak, I will keep using it and post my interesting story with those stranger.

From my yik yak experiance a lot of people use yik yak in classes to share funny experiances in their class.  I have read post that talk about campus events or the wells hall preacher.  Most of the time the comments are jokes.  

I think classes that have the most yak activity are lower level classes that are easier.

Yik Yak is a very interesting App, My friends and I decided during a Spartan football game to give it a try. We went on and it was hilarious, Yik Yak is best used during events espcially during sporting events. Its a fun way for Spartans to band together and support our team while talking a little trash on the other guys. As fun as Yik Yak is, I can definetly see how it could turn into a very easy form of cyber bullying, so be careful out there!

I started to use Yik Yak at the beginning of the last semester after a friend introduced it to me. I never post anything but I had always found the some comments hilarious. But at a point of midterm, I decided to give it up when I accidentally saw a bursted wave of offensive posts that are all aimed to one class in IAH and the professor that was teaching that course (I think it is better that I don't specify the class and name of that professor). From the language those students were using, I can tell the professor is an Asian. I can understand some students were teasing about his accent, but I found it quite traumatized because of some racist and offensive phases they were using. Some of those offensive posts were even at the "hot" section with almost a hundred upvotings. Afterward, I realized that this is not an unusual phenomenon on Yik Yak after I talked to my friend. Many professors who teach undergraduates are the major targets where bored students can find some amusement from. It maybe protect people's privacy and right of speech, but who will protect professors from being the victims of verbal attack by students? 

I do not use Yik Yak nor do any of my friends. I've heard of it, but wasn't aware it was that popular.

I am a huge opposer to the Yik Yak and its uses. I do not have the application and I hear about it all the time. I have seen first hand how it can destroy someones life simply because they believe in it anonimity. The application simply allows people to voice opinions and comments without having to put a face to the words. However its real life implications can be extrememly severe. There should be no person going unaccountable for making comments on social media. 

I use Yik Yak to voice my random thoughts or opinions. I enjoy looking at what other people are around me thinking and it is often times really humorous. I would say my largest lectures whave the most and best yik yaks.

I actually had MSU being beat by virginia but I could not be happier that we are in the Final four and I actually believe we may have a chance to beat duke and we play like we have been.

I actually had no idea Yik Yak has been around since 2013! I did not hear about it until this year tailgate season when people were advertising it in Ann Arbor! I have not noticed Yik Yak being used in any of my classes, from my experience and what I have seen Yik Yak seems more like an anonymous twitter account.

 

GO GREEN!!!!!! I am actually in first place in my family bracket right now! I have MSU winning it all of course and I am very excited to say I will be going to Indianapolis this weekend to cheer on the team! 

I haven't have much of an experience on Yik Yak, just never really got into the app. But many of my friends are active on it and I think it creates a sense of community because it is so focused on location, being that your feed shows only posts from people in your area. I think on campus Yik Yaks are always being posted, and in certain classes that may be more controversial or harder to get through. At this, point I hope to see MSU basketball win the whole tournament and at that point I'm sure the Yik Yaks will be sent like crazy.

I used to use the Yik Yak app, but I don’t have the app anymore. I thought it was an interesting tool when I first saw this app. But soon, I deleted the app. I found this is funny but that’s the only advantage of this app. I have seen Yaks that are racist, misogynistic and demonstrate bullying behavior. It actually has a potential for bullying. I don’t think it is a healthy mode of communication.

I'm replying to this post a little later than most but I find it to be very interesting. I personally have a Yik Yak and lately have been using it a lot more than Twitter. I like the fact that Yik Yak is an "anonymous" type of Twitter handle. It makes a lot of the posts interesting and a bit more spicy. I mostly use Yik Yak right before I go to bed so I'm not very informed about how crazy it can get in my own classes. But based off what I've read on the app I think the general education courses with hundreds of people are the ones that get most crazy, for example CEM 141. 

Unfortunately, it's too late to create my own bracket! But GO GREEN! We made it to the Final Four and that's incredible. I don't think you should ever underestimate the underdog. 

I actually really enjoy using YikYak. With the anonymity of it all people say some pretty hilarious things. At a college level I think that for the most part it is used as a fun way to communicate with one another – at least from my experience at State. However, because it does have the anonymous feature it can also be easily used in a negative way. In a high school environment I think this is especially true. With no way for someone to prove they wrote something they may feel they can post anything about anyone. I actually work near Okemos High School and went on today to see if this was true, and I actually did find a few that were less than positive. However, I still enjoy seeing what my fellow Spartans are yaking about.

I actually don't use Yik Yak.  I see posts about it on Twitter, especially heard about it when all of that school shooting/bombing news was steming from a Yik Yak post, but overall I think it's a little ridiculous.  People don't need another way to be anonymous gossipers or bullies online, and this is an even easier way for it to happen.  For people who use it responsibly, I'm sure it's fun.  For others, it probably ruins their day or keeps them from being able to escape school bullying even more.

It may be naive, but I still believe in our Spartan Dawgs - we perform better as the underdogs than with all the spotlight!  We're going to the Final Four in my bracket :)

I personally don't use YikYak and up until a few months ago I had no idea what it even was. I had my roommate explain to me a little about and to be honest I found it really pointless. I would much rather socialize with people using Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram. But I will admit that some of the comments I did read on YikYak were actually a little funny. I just can't seem to take the site seriously though. 

I don't use Yik Yak. I never even heard of this before this blog post. Usually, if we want to dish on a professor or something, we usually go on to ratemyprofessor.com or something to that regard. I never post anything like this on any website, because even if it is anonymous, there are ways to find someone and where it was sent and how.

I've heard of Yik Yak and have seen advertisements around campus for it, but honestly I've never used it nor had the urge to download it. I don't really know too much about it either so maybe I should jump on the band wagon and do some research. When it comes to March Madness, it really is the only time I watch basketball. Basketball is my least favorite sport, however, I always cheer on my Spartans no matter what sport it is. I've never made a bracket ever, and that's because I don't really know anything about basketball. But if I were to make one, I'd just be stupid and have MSU winning the whole thing because that's obviously what I want to happen. 

I follow Yik Yak on twitter so I only see the top posts from schools around the country.  I don't like having a lot of apps on my phone so this way allows me to still see the content but on an app I already have. I guess that means I'm not exactly sure how it works either.  I just like reading the ones they post on their twitter because they are usually the funniest from that day.  As far as basketball, those Spartan Dawgs always make me so nervous when playing good teams because we have not been consistant but they way they have been playing in the tournament, I can see them going to the Championship Game.

I dont really use Yik Yak all that often. I do have the app but I dont think I have opened it since last semester. I will admit I really had fun with yik yak right when I first discovered it, but i quickly grew bored of it because it did not have much else to offer. Last semester I did have a lecture with about 600 people in it, and when I went on in lecture most of the yik yaks were about the professor or the last person who raised their hand to talk, kinda cool, kinda embarrassing. Also I have spartan basketball in my final four! 

Yik Yak is an interesting concept to me. I do have one, but I don't take it very seriously. I mostly use it for humor purposes because some of the things people post are ridiculous. However, sometimes it is interesting because it is a source of news and "gossip" per say and it is another way to find out what is going on around you. Since Yik Yak is based off of your location, and Yaks show based on the people who are near you, it is a new way to keep up with the happenings around you in a brief and easy way. 

I have Yik Yak, and I use it for humor purposes. I try and write funny "yaks" and see how many upvotes I can get-the most I got was 73. It's kind of a way for me to test out what things could work on my own personal Twitter account to a wider audience than I have on my own account. I think this could help me with increasing my own followings online. 

I personally have never used Yik Yak. I think most of the stuff posted on Yik Yak is very dumb and overall has no point. MSU has had bomb threats over Yik Yak and students have ended up in huge trouble from the app. I think it all depends on what is posted. Something can be very funny, while other comments could be hurtful and crossing the fine line of what is right and wrong. As for the tournament, I had MSU being beaten by Virginia! I was very happy to see my bracket was wrong and they are advancing to the Sweet 16! I was in Chicago this past weekend so trying to find a place to sit in the city was very hard, considering the amount of MSU fans that migrate there after college. After the way they are playing though, there is a chance they could win it all! We will have to see what happens in the near future!

I used to use the Yik Yak app but didn't really see it as a useful tool. It is fun to read through if you are bored and have checked all other possible social media apps on your phone. One think I didn't like about the about was that it allowed people who were using it for the wrong reasons to remain annonymous. Like in the article in the New York Times, students can use the app to say mean or hurtful things about anyone without getting in trouble or even being identified. 

I first heard about Yik Yak from one of my friends and I checked it out to see what it is all about. I find it very useful for classes or promoting things or just general ideas on campus. However, I feel that some of the posts are just plain stupid and should not be on there. Kids are using the app for the wrong reason. I deleted that app because I was not getting a lot of help from it.

Unfortunately, the only things I knew about Yik Yak before the article were the negative aspects of allowing anonymous social microcosms to form... I have Spartans winning, but that might be because I am a bit biased!

I have heard of Yik Yak and some of my friends have the app. I have yet to dowload it because I know it is a lot like Twitter, but no one knows who posts what. I find it silly to download two apps that have the same purpose. When I have looked at the app on my friends phone it is entertaining and lot of the posts were quite funny. Since I personally don't have Yik Yak I am not quite sure which classes have the biggest Yik Yak usage. I do like the idea of Yik Yak though, saying what you feel without people know who is posting it. That can be a good or a bad thing. Like the article you had a link for in your post, the teacher who saw the Yaks was very upset and wanted the school to do something, but since you can't see who is posting what, the school couldn't punish anyone. Its great that you can get out what you have to say and not have anyone know it was you, but if you are posting mean things about schools, your work, or other people it is sort of a negative, because the people posting know that they will never get in trouble.

Now for March Madness, I made two brackets. One bracket I have MSU going all the way and the other bracket I have MSU in the final four and Kentucky winning it all. Of course I am hoping for them to go all the way and one upset has already happened, so heres to hoping!

Overall, I enjoy Yik Yak and plan to continue using it. However, I am aware of the controversial nature of it. In between the funny or even informative Yaks are the mean, racist, and sexist Yaks. 

Unattractive or uninteresting professors seem to get the brunt of hatred from Yakkers. When everyone has the opportunity for their voice to be heard, the funniest Yaks mix with the meanest. At MSU, on Friday mornings there is a weekly yakking session with students from an 8am class. Mixed in with the funny commentary are cruel messages about the professor's outfits and rude comments about the professor’s teaching style. 

Perhaps one of the most nerve wracking aspects of Yik Yak is the anonymous nature of it. Since anyone is able to post their thoughts, the person sitting next to you or even a close friend can be the perpetrator of an inflammatory Yak. Hopefully, with the blocking features of Yik Yak this problem will be able to be limited and controlled. 

 

I use to have Yik Yak, but I was never really able to get into it.  I know a lot of people have it and it is pretty funny to read.  I think that it definietly has grown on campus and even outside of campus.  I have not experienced it get crazy in any classes however.  I thnk it is a cool app though and it is gaining a lot of traction.  I am not sure how it will be when it starts to get bought and sold like most popular apps do.  

 

I have Michigan State going all the way in the bracket, of course.  I have to vote for my team!  My bracket was really good the first round, but not so much anymore :( 

While I don't personally use Yik Yak, I'm familiar with the app. I've had it explained to me and I've seen people use it, but I've never downloaded it myself. To me, it seems like a sort of anonymous Twitter that's based on your location. Things are short and to the point, and trends catch on quickly. It reminds me a lot of "Whisper" an app that anonymously let you post confessions with a random photo background. My brother uses Yik Yak, and has said it's been popular in a few of his larger lecture halls. Personally, it's not very appealing to me. It sounds like just another social media platform. 

In terms of the tournament, I'm always pulling for the Spartans. Anything is possible with Izzo in March. 

I've heard the name Yik Yak, but before this spring break I did not truly know what is was or how to use it. While in Florida, my friends used Yik Yak to find other people in our age group at the resort, as well as look at comments about the resort itself. Yik Yak lead to our group finding other people to play volley and hangout with. It also warned us of a few possible thefts by the maid staff, which caused us to be more careful about storing our more valuable belongings. I found it a very positive experience, and may continue to use it in the future. 

Yik Yak is a virtual bathroom wall for college campuses. It allows students to speak freely and anonymously on any topic. It being geographically specific, 1.5 mile radius, keeps the posts relevant to users. My roommates and I use Yik Yak for comedic relief between study breaks. The recent bomb threat on the university campus via the social app seemed to only make it more popular, everyone was wondering what all the buzz was about. Cyberbullying is no stranger to the Intenet community. And it is more a reflection of our society than it is a result of the Yik Yak app. The great thing about Yik Yak is, it lets the readers decide which posts stay and which go. This gives a sense of empowerment to the community and keeps the topics of disscussion relevant and fair. "...we really made (Yik Yak) for the disenfranchised," one of the creaters, Brooks Bruffington, said in the article. Yik Yak is a way for everyones voice to be heard regardless of the number of people following them on social media. And to the notion of banning the app on campuses, it is a huge free speech violation. Everyone's voice deserves to be heard. And the great thing about our nation is, if you don't want to hear it, don't download the app. 

I've downloaded, deleted, re-downloaded, and then deleted again the YikYak app. It was never crazy in any of my classes - at least not that I noticed. I believe the app was very popular in the Greek community before it spread across the MSU campus.  When I used the app, many freshman were using it to find parties or to say bad things about our rival schools, particulary UofM. For a few weeks, it was an interesting app that I would open after I checked my other social media. The anonymity of the app didn't cause that many people (in my experience) to say nasty things about other people; 95% of the posts were school- or party-related. However, I would always get bored of the similar posts and began to see people re-post the popular, funny jokes that were posted a week prior. I always end up deleting Yik Yak.

In my March Madness bracket, I have the Spartans going to the Sweet 16 and losing to Oklahoma. I would not be mad at all if my team went farther, I hope we win of course! But I have Kentucky winning it all.

I actually have heard of Yik Yak but do not use it. To me, it seems like an app that people can just passive aggressively bad mouth those around them. I can't say this for a fact because I have never downloaded it, but from what I've heard, it doesn't seem like a positive resource for communication. This may be fun for others, but I personally don't enjoy gossiping and have learned to stay away from it. On a more positive note... Go Green!!

I personally have Yik Yak but I use it very little. I know that in some classes it can get out of control. Things can become treding about a class so quickly that one class of 200 students could all be "Yaking" about one small subject. I use it just to see funny things around campus and such but I know that my Dad in fact uses it to keep up to date with things that are going on here on MSU's campus along with my brother and sisters campus'. My biggest Yik Yak experience was in a 500 person lecture. Everyone began Yaking about one student wearing a blazer and within an hour and half, he was viraly famous.

I got the Yik Yak app at the beginning of the school year.  I got a new phone about a month ago and never re-downloaded it.  I found this to be just for entertainment purposes.  I do not post on it just because I do not have many things funny or worth saying.  When I had the app I would look at it maybe once a week when I was really bored.  I found that after about the first month of the app, people would start to use the same old post that I have already seen before.  I found it very funny the first few times but it started to get old.  Luckily, I was never on the app enough to catch the negative comments made on it.  Everything I saw was a large MSU following supporting MSU and making some funny puns.

 

I do have the Yik Yak app but I am rarely on it and I have never posted anything on it before. I just go on it if I am pretty bored or if my roommate says that there are a bunch of funny yaks at the moment since she is on it way more than I am. I think most of the yaks are pretty funny at least when I am reading them but some people are completely rude with their comments and some comments could fall under the bully category. I think it is just an app that is meant to be fun and pointless and you are always going to have those people who have to be rude about any little thing and cant just be easy going.

I had the Yik Yak app for about a month this past fall. I was definitely more about reading things than posting them, just for entertainment. There was so much negativity going on and being posted in the app it would make me mad, and I would want to post something aggressive back, it would just be a mess. I don't have room in my life for negative energy like that, especially coming from strangers whom I can't even see their faces. Most of the people I imagine on Yik Yak are hermits who live vicariously through their computers and through that, emulate strong, aggressive opinions. Obviously, that isn't entirely true, but it is surely those people who drove me off of using the app.

I don't use Yik Yak for one reason only: bullying. The fact that people have a social outlet that lets them talk about who/whatever they want while being anonymous results to mean things being said. Sure, it can also be an outlet for people to be creative, and it is very similar to Twitter, but the difference between Twitter and Yik Yak, is that your name isn't posted. No one wants to post something horrible when their name is attached. So, with this, I know the app has lots of fans, but I don't want to support something that can result in bullying.

I downloaded Yik Yak at the beginning of this year and found it to be somewhat entertaining. I was surprised at how funny people were at MSU, and I wondered who was using this app and what it would eventually be used for. So far, at least in my eyes, MSU students use Yik Yak to tell jokes or say things about relevant events going on in the world or locally. I have noticed an increased usage during classes, but this seems to happen only when something big happens, causing people to talk  and want to share the information. I think Yik Yak is a smart social networking app because it is following the trend of localizing services and using a location as a waypoint to receive different content. Something I have noticed is that the anonymous factor of Yik Yak users is always going to pose a problem. People feel safe behind a keyboard and feel that they can say anything and get away with it. The New York Times article touches on the threats that anonymous users pose, and it seems that there is no way to avoid these types of problems, but the app does work closely with law enforcement when there are serious situations. 

 

Yik Yak was an app I began using last year, and to be honest, it’s not necessarily in my everyday use.  Not that I don’t like “Yakking” or reading other Yaks, but people definitely take advantage of the posts being completely anonymous.  Most of the time there is very crude humor and profanity, which in return simply gets “downed” off the feed.  My Michigan State feed shows about 20 Yaks within the last minute so it’s hard to come across a good recent Yak and it’s hard to get others to see and appreciate the Yaks you post yourself.  All in all, I enjoy Yik Yak, but in order to get satisfaction out of it, I need to be scrolling for quite some time while filtering through the profanity.

I have a love-hate relationship with Yik Yak. Some days it is interesting to read and very funny, other times, it is people spamming the page and being inconsiderate. I downloaded it last semester, I cannot remember the exact reason why. I feel as if a lot of freshman use this app because I see a lot of lower level lecture type classes often being talked about. It gets pretty old for me, yet I still find myself using it.

When the app first started out, high schoolers used this app to talk poorly about classmates and it eventually got banned from high-schoolers, making it college only. Making it anonymous makes it easier for people to say racist, rude, hurtful, sexist and mean comments to others and not care about it. I prefer to use apps like Fade and Twitter and sometimes Facebook. 

I did not fill out a bracket nor do I want to but I think the Spartans will make it to the elite 8, at least. 

According to my friend group I was “late” in learning about Yik Yak. I downloaded it and only used it for a few days before I decided to delete the app. I thought it was funny at first but found it annoying that people would hide behind their anonymous profiles to be rude to others. In the couple days that I did use the app I seen people talking about chemistry 141 a lot, they talked about how awful it was and that they had just failed the exam. For the Spartans, I would like them to win it all, obviously. However, I would be happy with reaching the elite 8!

I have heard of Yik Yak and know what it is used for, but I personally dont use it. I have a twitter, instagram, and facebook and I think  thats enoughs social media to keep me in the loop. I dont know any classes that use Yik Yak, I just know its more of a twitter type of app that are sensored location wise. Pertaining to MSU in the tournament, I think we can make it to the Final Four, and have potential to make it farther if our team makes free throws!