Indians are going crazy for Sarahah : Here is all you need to know about the app!
Freely express yourself on Sarahah : Here is how to use it effectively
Technology keeps changing with the passage of time. New apps conquer us and our smart phones. Everyone on social media, be it on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Snapchat, is talking about Sarahah app that allows users to send anonymous messages to others registered with the app. Well, people in India are going crazy for it.
Sarahah has become the talk of the town. Everyone on social media, be it on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Snapchat, is talking about Sarahah, an app that allows users to send anonymous messages to others registered with the app. The key highlight of Sarahah is that it does not reveal the identity of the sender of the message at any given cost. This is where Sarahah stands out from other similar applications available on the Play Store. Isn’t it cool? Though you people can guess who the actual person is, who is sending you the messages. But the app will not tell you the identity of the person.
While some may already know about this application or how it works, there are still many who are surprised by the craze. And many still have questions like what is Sarahah, how does it work, where to download it from, how to use it and so on and so forth. No worries here is full details about this app.
How does it work?
1.Sarahah is a brainchild of Saudi developer ZainAlabdin Tawfiq. He introduced Sarahah about six months ago as a website.
2. However, he later realized that Sarahah would do wonders as an app. That’s when he created the Sarahah app, which is now available for both Android and iOS users. The app hit both Google Play Store and App Store, and in absolutely no time Sarahah has become one of the top trending apps with over millions of downloads.
3. Sarahah is Arabic term means ‘honesty’. The key idea behind designing the app is to allow people send creative messages to each other. But that’s not what has been happening, Instead, people are — also or rather mostly — using the application as a means of cyber bullying and trolling others while keeping their identity a secret.
4. It is on June 13 that Tawfiq rolled out the app to for both Android and iOS users. In just two months time, the app reached over millions of downloads on both Google Play Store and App Store and has become the most trending app today. After downloading the app, users will have to have to register to it with their email ID, password and user name.There’s no way to directly reply to the received messages via Sarahah.
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5. However, Sarahah is reportedly working on the reply option. In the ‘About’ page of Sarahah website, it is clearly mentioned that the developers are studying the reply option. “You can’t respond to messages now. We are studying this option,” Sarahah mentions on its website. Further, Sarahah founder also said that the team is working on several other features, which the “users will like”.
6 People who know your Sarahah profile link will be able to send anonymous messages. Further, there’s also a search bar to find who all are registered with Sarahah.There will be no name, no information about the sender of the message anywhere. However, because of the anonymity built in the application, some users are misusing it as a cyber bullying platform.
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