Confessions on Yik Yak | a couple safety PSAs about the Nearby feed: 1) posts to your campus’ group are automatically shared to Nearby unless you toggle off the “nearby” setting when posting 2) posts that don’t show a 🏫 emoji after the location are made by non-students

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Confessions 20h

a couple safety PSAs about the Nearby feed: 1) posts to your campus’ group are automatically shared to Nearby unless you toggle off the “nearby” setting when posting 2) posts that don’t show a 🏫 emoji after the location are made by non-students

Anonymous 19h

OR if it doesn’t have it, it means it was just posted to the nearby and the post was not posted to the university page. Just tested this^

Anonymous 20h

i.e. the 🏫 emoji conveys that the OP signed up with a student email address so far today I’ve seen one non-student in my area trying to use the Nearby feed to meet up, and one non-student LARPing by posting about Greek life. both immediately shame-deleted when confronted

Anonymous

#1 19h

oh!! my bad, thanks for the correction