BeReal is not good (most appropriate way i could say this). It is a Privacy nightmare. Just think about it, a bunch of random strangers are getting access to every single day what you and your family are doing. I know nobody is concerned about privacy anymore. Seems like we have lost that but still Also BeReal has a bunch of Ads. And since the inclusion of Ads bereal has quickly lost in popularity. If you are searching for a Alternative, you should try out DD-DigitalDiary It doesn’t have a lot of the features like social sharing. It is basically a journaling application. But still could be a good alternative. Also there was another app Minutaie which first started this trend so i suggest you should also check it out
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I just find the format itself pointless. Not only does that encourage oversharing (including images of your face, which for me is a big no-no), but also doesn’t allow expressing yourself. You can pretty much only state facts like “I cooked pancakes today”. Not express your thoughts and skills, like a wall of text on hidden meanings in Squidward’s music. Even in a simple photo report, choosing how and when to take photos is most of the art, while randomized timing deprives you of that.
The idea is that is it more “real” than the other social media apps, because you cannot prepare your best self for the photo and not necessarily the best memory of that day will be recorded. Reality is that most people (maybe all people) have a relatively boring life (it’s not everyday that something worthy of attention happens) and there is not much value in sharing e.g. your lunch. Most people had it that day and yours was also not that extraordinary.
Unfortunately since facebook (maybe instagram topped it) everyone may have their own tabloid platform to share their everyday life as celebrities do on tabloids and people seem to love it.
Not to mention the huge privacy concern that you post of a photo everyday, which may include your location, definitely your face and other useful information that may be used to hurt or annoy you in some way.
But that’s just documenting a life. I don’t find it interesting to just look at someone’s life (unless said life is really unusual). I want to see the personality.
I used it when it came out for a while, it was really nice coming from Instagram or Facebook where everyone tailors their posts around successes or glam shots. BeReal was cool because it sends a notification once a day for when you can post your photo, and you have to take it then.
It ended up being a lot of people just sitting in bed or watching TV, which gave me a lot of satisfaction seeing nobody does social things 24/7.
I give it a lot of credit for giving me the push to quit social media altogether to be honest
I had no idea what this was. Its just another shovelware social media platform. Of course its a privacy nightmare. Its a social media platform.
Shouldnt there be better… Hopefully. Like a different Like Protonmail did to Gmail
I don’t follow what youre saying
Asking for an alternative I think.
I have a friend who uses it religiously, and I found out they would sometimes sneak pictures of people around them, including me. Totally uncool behavior!
What the shit, that is not okay
I would tear them a new one.
Damn I came here in defense of Cypress Hill but wrong thread…
I mean you can set it so that only your friends see your posts. And they are French so I suppose they at least follow GDPR. But yeah, of course it collects your data and all that stuff like all social media
Obviously, BeReal fails to include a libre software license text file. We do not control it, anti-libre software. So, there was never a reason to think it is private.
This is an okay write up but okay? Who uses this anymore? Who used it at all?
I was in high school when it first popped off so about 50-60% of teens (especially girls) were addicted/using it. I’ve never liked Instagram, Snapchat, Tiktok, or similar social media sites at all, so when it first came out I thought people were saying BeReal as in “B-reel”, as if it was some sort of site where you had to make an accompanying video to another one a friend made or some shit.
But BeReal is still known, has 10M+ downloads on Google Play, in the top 100 for social apps at 89th.
It was literally everywhere only a year ago or so in my country. Luckily its started to die out, hoping that trend continues.
I started using it a while ago. One big difference between iOS and android version. Android version is published by voodoo. Also, because of Adblock, I did not know or notice that it has ads. And my posts are only visible to friends for a day , not strangers for ever.
Do you know anything else , like what data they might collect?
Check permissions on your phone that should give some idea and read the tos. You likely won’t like it tbh but that’s standard with anything not foss
https://tosdr.org/en/service/6742
Same as always, everything
Heard about them last year from a relative. I couldn’t believe this was actually a thing that people use.
Privacy and social media are mutually exclusive. The ones you have linked are no exception. DD requires a phone number so I didn’t get any further. Minutiae has you taking photos and sending them to a centralized service. That’s not private. I don’t understand why you’d say that no is concerned about privacy with the implication that’s a bad thing then immediately recommend something as bad.
Privacy and social media are not really mutually exclusive - if we’re talking about a service like Facebook that follows you around the internet unless you take measures, yes. But if we mean something like Lemmy or Mastodon, it can be fine for privacy if you choose right what you do and don’t expose.
OSINT off stuff like this includes
- IP addresses unless you’re using a VPN and periodically changing it up
- textual analysis if you ever comment
- interests if you ever subscribe or even regularly visit the same communities regularly (which opens a lot of doors)
- other accounts if you aren’t using single-purpose emails and handles
Privacy and social media are mutually exclusive. Find me a security expert that disagrees and I might change my mind. Right now you’re a random person on the internet, I’m a random person on the internet, and OSINT is real.
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