The app's popular feed exposes some of the top secrets on the service, a nearby stream highlights whispers posted around you, and a featured feed offers up content curated by the app's content moderators. Or, they can strike up a conversation with you via private message.
On Whisper, your confession is posted to a public feed where strangers can see it, like it, and post a reply. Essentially, Whisper is the digital reincarnation of PostSecret, the celebrated art project in which people mail their confessions on the back of postcards.
The end result is an image with text overlaid, visually similar to Internet memes. Whisper works like this: type a message, any message, and the app will attempt to find an image that matches the meaning. In many ways, Whisper is a reaction to the over-embellished existences we find on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, making it often moody and melancholy - and real in the most unsettling of ways. If it's true that you are who you are when no one is looking, then Whisper, the anonymous app where college-aged kids hang out and bond over their candid confessions, is arguably the most authentic social network of them all.įounded in 2012, the not even 2-year-old smartphone application returns us to the roots of the Web when anonymity, not identity, was the norm. Platform 9 3/4 alludes to Harry Potter and Hogwarts. Whisper CEO Michael Heyward at the company's temporary headquarters in Santa Monica, Calif.
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