{"id":3947,"date":"2016-02-24T12:43:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T16:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncjolt.org\/?p=3947"},"modified":"2020-06-04T20:53:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T20:53:03","slug":"yeti-campus-stories-the-easiest-way-to-share-yourself-to-your-entire-campus-good-thing-or-bad-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/blogs\/yeti-campus-stories-the-easiest-way-to-share-yourself-to-your-entire-campus-good-thing-or-bad-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeti Campus Stories. The easiest way to share yourself to your entire campus. Good thing or bad thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Its operation is like Snapchat but more visible and completely unfiltered.\u00a0 \u201cBy cloning Snapchat\u2019s<\/a> <\/span>visual layout and campus chatter app Yik Yak\u2019s\u00a0 open browsing structure\u2014you don\u2019t have to discover and add specific accounts, just peruse a list of schools and check in wherever you like\u2014Yeti is the no-holds-barred hybrid app of an 18-year-old binge drinker\u2019s dreams.\u00a0 You\u2019ll find drinking games, white powder and hundred-dollar bills, laughing young people with the caption \u2018Shrooms,\u2019 birthday candles sticking out of water bongs, containers of muscle relaxers and Adderall, enormous nuggets of weed, and \u2018post-smash\u2019 selfies and nude photos.\u201d \u00a0This is scarier than Yik Yik which operates like anonymous twitter but it is limited to a 1.5 mile radius usually surrounding college campuses.
\nCollege students today believe that they have solved the privacy concerns that are inevitably connected with sharing on social media platforms.\u00a0 These students have taken their parents\u2019 warnings about what they share and they have treaded with(out?) caution by creating innovative ways to make ephemeral technology a better way to connect compared to a platform like Facebook in which your profile acts like a permanent chronicle of one\u2019s life.\u00a0 Students know employers continue to check social media and they believe that they have outsmarted their predecessors. These students think they have become more elusive by using apps that pride themselves on anonymity.<\/p>\n

By believing they have shielded themselves from liability, these students act invincible, but in reality, their solutions are problems that leave themselves vulnerable to criminal liability and other dangerous situations that compromise the safety of their peers on campus and beyond into the digital world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 
\nDespite the innovation that is fostered in these college campus settings like Yik-Yak at Furman, there must be a way to keep these apps relevant without undermining their purpose.\u00a0 Snapchat and Yeti are both born out of the deceptive notion that sharing photos of memories and sending it instantly creates memories that are important enough to share but not appropriate to be apart of the timeline<\/em> of one\u2019s life.\u00a0 Similarly, the tantamount function of sharing enables these apps to provide the most basic online forum on campuses for free speech where there is no fear of judgment.\u00a0 However, these apps will need to determine which interests are more important: safety or speech.\u00a0 In order for them to succeed, it feels like both interests cannot be served without compromising the other.\u00a0 \u201cThis is unquestionably a tipping point<\/a> <\/span>for photo-sharing platforms, and it looks like they\u2019re on the cusp of becoming a serious problem for students. In most respects they\u2019re tailor-made for bullying,\u00a0revenge porn, and the creation of criminal evidence.\u201d\u00a0 <\/sup>\u00a0Because of this, there will be a new shift in how these apps operate and what the response will be in order to better serve campuses at large.\u00a0 As the apps continue to grow, it will no longer be about college students but the fear is that an already growing population of minors in high school will use these apps for more than innocent moments at school.
\nDespite the looming liabilities beyond campuses across America, there must be a broader conversation if these forms of communication actually serve as progress.\u00a0 Despite the money to be made and the ingenuity involved in these ephemeral technological apps, they seem to do more harm than good.\u00a0 Over sharing is really no different than it was fifteen years ago, but it has more implications than ever before.\u00a0 The more shared, the more at risk and despite students and young people becoming more privy to this notion, they are willing to be reckless in the name of doing it FTY<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Its operation is like Snapchat but more visible and completely unfiltered.\u00a0 \u201cBy cloning Snapchat\u2019s visual layout and campus chatter app Yik Yak\u2019s\u00a0 open browsing structure\u2014you don\u2019t have to discover and add specific accounts, just peruse a list of schools and check in wherever you like\u2014Yeti is the no-holds-barred hybrid app of an 18-year-old binge drinker\u2019s …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7235,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions\/7235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}