What is Sarahah and why do your contacts share it on Instagram Stories

A new application has arrived ready to revolutionize our Facebook walls and also Instagram Stories. Under the name of Sarahah, and defining itself as the "application of truths", it has become the leader in Internet searches. By the way, Sarahah in Arabic means honesty

What is Sarahah? In short, it is an application that we can download for Android and iOS that makes it easier for us to choose to share comments secretly.Something reminiscent of other competitors who were successful in their day, but who soon ended up in oblivion. Or in that pool of apps that you rarely open. Maybe Whisper comes to mind.

What makes Sarahah attractive to appear on Instagram Stories?

The question is very simple, and practically affects almost all of us equally. What do your friends or contacts on social networks really think of you? Well, imagine that you can receive comments anonymous messages from your contacts -supposedly sincere- and that you can do the same. In other words, a kind of 2.0 gossip that the application provides a marvelous marketing layer.

Sarahah Creators define themselves as a place where you can discover “your strengths and areas for improvement by receiving honest feedback.” Anything that would range from employees to friends. Come on, you can be criticized and you'll never know who sent it

How does Sarahah work?

To receive anonymous comments, what we have to do is share the link of our profile Once done, we will have to share it where we create that we will have more interactions. On Facebook, on Instagram or as Instagram Stories, on Twitter... or even on WhatsApp.

We can also leave messages to users, doing different searches. Right now we can only receive the messages, that's where all the interaction will stay. But its developers have pointed out that soon we will be able to respond. Of course, from the web we can delete a message, mark it as a favorite or report it.And it even allows us to export the message in the form of a photo, something that will make us share it on our social networks.

An application in the crosshairs for being used as cyberbullying

Trolls abound on social networks, those people who hide behind anonymity to harm or simply annoy. What could you do with an app that does just that?

The developers themselves have recognized that Sarahah has become a fantastic option for dealing damage. The fact that it allows you to send anonymous messages it opens the doors to those who seek to annoy. In addition, now it does not allow you to establish any type of conversation, so if you receive negative reviews you must choose what to do with them.

Of course, the application allows us to block offensive users. In addition, the developers are working on measures to prevent cyberbullying from blowing up their application, which will also cause message filtering.

In short, an application that someone devised for companies to receive a kind of quality survey from their customers, or for the workers to send anonymous comments to their bosses which has now exploded. Anyone can use Sarahah and in fact, people are already beginning to see profiles on Instagram Stories asking their contacts to tell them what they think of them.