YETI
By: Aquarius Hollis
The new app circulating around Fort Valley State University is an app called “Yeti”, that was designed to display fun college stories for everyone to see. People are calling it “the snap chats that snap chat rejected.” It highlights all the crazy aspects of college life, positive and negative. Sex, drugs, partying and bashing is something you see a lot of when logging in to this app. Some students around campus are turning something that’s supposed to be fun into something negative. Videotaping people while they aren't looking and posting mean words or just simply having mean words posted are mostly what students are doing.
Every now and then you will see some students posting positive things such as what they are eating today or pictures with their friends. Many college students know about Snapchat. If you don’t know, Snapchat is a popular app used by many college students to capture pictures and videos of anybody’s day to day life. College students get on Yeti when they want to avoid Snap Chats terms of use and community guidelines which forbid photos that invade privacy, are nonconsensual, harassing, pornographic, or depict a minor in “suggestive” circumstances. Yeti cloned Snap Chats visual layout but you don't have to discover and add specific accounts, just peruse a list of schools and check in wherever you like. Some say that Yeti is the tipping point of the photo sharing platform and it is becoming a serious problem for students. Yeti is starting to host bullying, revenge porn and the creation of criminal evidence.
Some students attacked through this app tweeted “Words do hurt” in reaction to mean posts being put up about them. Yeti should re-evaluate its terms and conditions and guidelines so that certain things cannot be posted. There have been recorded suicide threats posted through this app, and since the people who post are anonymous no one can be blamed for the post. Students should turn this negativity to positivity and start posting campus events, school spirit, and positive things about the university. If not karma is still in full affect to all the people who believe in tearing people down just to build themselves up.
