Gen Z's new favorite app

[brooklynite]

Axios

Downloads of BeReal, Gen Z's hot new social media app, have skyrocketed in recent months, giving the world's mobile-first generation a new way to connect through the work or school day.

Why it matters: With so many apps fighting to get even a small sliver of Gen Z's attention, BeReal has pulled ahead by getting users not to over-think what they post.

How it works: BeReal encourages users to send one post every day to their friends to show exactly what they're doing in real time.

In a push toward authenticity, the app snaps photos from the phone's front and back cameras simultaneously, showing where you are and what you’re doing at the same time.

Because users have to send posts within two minutes of getting a randomly-timed notification, they don't have time to make fancy adjustments. Also, the app doesn't include any photo editing tools.

[2naSalit]

1. What could go wrong?

[ananda]

2. I know, and it's not hard to imagine.

[LiberatedUSA]

5. LOL

That is a long damn list of possible problems! LMFAO!

[2naSalit]

7. That's why it's...

Posed as a question. No way could I come up with a substantial list!

[Ferrets are Cool]

11. My first thought

[Wounded Bear]

3. Two minutes is barely time to flush...

[2naSalit]

8. Especially if...

You have to flush 10 - 15 times!

[TheRealNorth]

4. Well, the least I can say is that it sounds more successful than Truth Social

[Hortensis]

6. :) Sounds fun, and right up the alley of selfie generations.

I told my bemused husband he'd have two minutes to throw on a robe, snap, and send. He declined. Lol to any idea of helping out Truth Social by combining this one's recipe for success with it.

My grandsons haven't mentioned it, but then they've now all entered their teens or preteens, that desert between wanting our attention for themselves and wanting grandparents for their unborn children, so don't mention much I don't coax out of them.

[NJCher]

9. I cannot imagine why

anyone would want to do this or even see or hear about it.

[Ron Obvious]

10. I can't either, and I say that about a lot of fads and tech these days.

Their world seems joyless and full of angst to me, but I'm sure that's just our generation.

And don't get me started about their music....

[LiberatedUSA]

12. "It's not what you think!"

Will get uttered more often.

[msongs]

13. hired to work, instead they play on their phones all day. nt

[Cuthbert Allgood]

14. Oh, great, another Gen Z bashing thread.

And people wonder why they don't think the Dem party gives a shit about them.

[Celerity]

15. Par for the course here. Millennials, Zillennials, and Gen Z are fair game here for certain crowd

Is it any wonder?







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