Is this actually a problem, or are students just too sensitive nowadays? I honestly can’t tell anymore.

Tommy Super at Old Gold & Black has the story:

Yik Yak remains controversial on campus

About a year ago, Yik Yak, an anonymous social media smart phone application, exploded in the Wake Forest community, and students agree the harm outweighs the fun.

“I can’t help myself from reading it every night before bed and throwing a couple up votes out for things that I think are funny,” said senior, Lauren Eagan, “but I think it’s pretty immature and half the stuff posted is hurtful and stupid.”

Yik Yak allows it’s users to post whatever they please into an anonymous thread, and their posts, or yaks, are immediately seen by other users within a 1.5 mile radius. Users can reply, report and up vote or down vote yaks.

Senior Dan Hawkins, assumed the Yik Yak Wake Forest representative position to change the application’s presence on campus. He feels progress has been made, but knows the harsh content needs to stop.

“Yik Yak, as everyone will admit, has been misused at times at Wake,” said Hawkins. “But I can say we are closer to a better quality of content than we have ever been.”