Secret is a social app that allows you to share secrets anonymously with your friends & the world.
It’s kinda your office complaint box or a performance review where everyone is allowed to say what they want & post jokes & personal stuff about themselves & others without having to take responsibility for the “gossip.”
The way Secret.ly works is pretty simple – when you sign up & start using the app, it goes through your contacts & uses them to find out who your friends are & extends it to friends of friends. You can also log in with your Facebook account, in which case your Facebook network serves as your network of friends on the Secret network, too.
When you have at least 3 friends sharing, you start getting presented with their secrets in random order at random intervals. You need at least 7 friends before posts you see are tagged as being made by 1 of your friends or a friend of a friend.
The randomness & minimum number of required friends ensures that you don’t get fingered for posting secrets if you’re with friends in the same room.
Those who see posts on Secret can also love & comment on it. If a friend on Secret “loves” a post made by you, it gets shared with their circle of friends too. When this viral sharing goes beyond 2 degrees (friends of friends) it gets marked with a general location (state).
Apart from the secrets shared with friends & friends of friends, there is also an “explore” stream that shows posts 3 or more degrees removed from you. This stream also includes featured posts selected by the “secret staff”.
The concept is easy & simple, & it should protect your anonymity unless you provide some highly specific information that only you could know.
It’s also a lot of fun, & you can make it more appealing by adding a relevant picture to your post. For instance, here’s a post from someone in the U.K. – “I work for Microsoft but I hate Windows and I want to be an Android developer.”
San Francisco, California, USA-based Secret, Inc. was founded in Oct 2013 by David Byttow & Chrys Bader-Wechseler. Byttow is the company’s CEO & Bader-Wechseler is the chief product officer. Secret, Inc. has raised $35 million in 3e funding rounds.
Click here to download the Secret app on your iOS device.
Click here to download the Secret app on your Android device.
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