“Introduction of the Sarahah app that sends sarcastic anonymous messages in the name of constructive feedback”
How to use Sarahah app, privacy policy and everything else you need to know
Sarahah, created by Saudi developer ZainAlabdin Tawfiq has gone viral for letting you send anonymous messages to people. The app is available in English and Arabic for iOS and Android users.
Sarahah is the app that enables you to say whatever you want to say about your friend’s bosses and other people you want to criticise their habits you don’t like anonymously. The app was created for a constructive criticism but the annoying stuff is going viral on this app and anonymous and hateful messages are being sent via this app.
With an idea of constructive feedback, Sarahah with 300 million users, was on top of Apple App Store in more than 30 countries last month and is becoming popular on Snapchat with people linking their Sarahah profiles to Snapchat Stories.
This viral messaging app is annoying people a lot, that’s why, I am here to tell you the way to get rid of the viral messages from anonymous people, forever. Here we will discuss the app, initially.
About Sarahah:
On Google Play Store, Sarahah app’s description is,
“Sarahah helps people self-develop by receiving constructive anonymous feedback,”
In Arabic, Sarahah means ‘honesty’ though the honesty is delivered anonymously.
How does it work?
Having downloaded the app, like other apps you will have to set up an account, by simply putting your username, name, email, and at the end entering a password. Your mobile number is not required here giving you the sense that you are totally anonymous.
Once you login, you can send the link on Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, even you can post the link on different sites by copying it. The people having the link will be able to send you messages, either they are friends, relatives or strangers.
To send messages, you have a click on the link that will open a text box with a message “Leave a constructive message.” but mostly, people ignore the constructive part, however you type there a message and hit send. The recipient receives the message without a name or phone number, and you remain anonymous.
More about the app:
Sarahah is not a regular messaging app and doesn’t offer anything else’s other than sending anonymous messages. The tabs on Sarahah are limited to messaging, searching, exploring and profiling.
Sent, received and favorite messages appear in the same tab and you can block or report a sender on receiving a message, but we don’t know what happens after you report a sender.
The messages you tapped the heart symbol are shown in “Favorite” tab, all the constructive feedback messages you sent are in the sent tab, in the search tab you can search for people to send anonymous messages. However, the explore tab is not operational yet. But this feature will be operational in the updated version of Sarahah.
The ‘Profile’ page of Sarahah lets you manage your profile showing a user’s profile picture along with Sarahah username, and count down of the messages received.
The privacy options:
Sarahah is the best for the cyber bullies, having a problem that hates on the app is irresistible. You just report or block hateful content senders, but it’s unclear what happens to those senders.
you can also disable the option to ‘appear in search’ and now unregistered people will not message you.
Four icons are shown below each message, a red flag is to report message, block icon, reply and a heart icon that marks the message as the favourite.
Attention:
Be careful about the reply button for replying to the person, who sent you the message. Reply button, for some weird reason, forwards your message to friends via social media platforms such as Facebook, Messenger, Snapchat, WhatsApp, and others.
Still, the app offers limited setting options with an option to Logout of the app. We could not find one deleting the account on the app itself. You have to log into the website version of the messaging service to delete the account and then to go settings to remove accounts.
The company claims not to disclose the identity of the logged-in senders to users except with their consent. So the senders of the threats and hateful content of are secure here,
So should you be using Sarahah?
Sarahah is the app introduced with constructive purposes. But the constructive aspect of the app is not active and people are mostly sharing sarcastic and hateful views about each other, without admitting the fact that sometimes constructive feedback in a sarcastic manner also does hurt very badly, though it is from some anonymous.
