Sarahah

Sarahah

Type of business	Social networking
Type of site	Anonymous feedback
Available in	13 languages
Founded	November 2016; 7 years ago (2016-11)[1]
Headquarters	Saudi Arabia[1]
Area served	Worldwide
Founder(s)	Zain al-Abidin Tawfiq[1]
Industry	Internet
Website	sarahah.com
Alexa rank	3,570 (global; (As of August 2017))[2]
Advertising	Yes
Registration	Required for receiving feedback; optional for giving it
Users	14 million ((As of July 2017))[1]
Launched	2016; 8 years ago (2016)
Current status	Active

Sarahah (Arabic: صراحة) is a social networking service for providing anonymous feedback. In Arabic, sarahah means "frankness" or "honesty".^[1] It was created by Zain al-Abidin Tawfiq in the end of 2016 and reached a sudden worldwide success by mid-2017.^[1] This growth is considered to be deeply related with the release of a Snapchat update that allowed people to share URLs on their snaps.^[1][3]

Sarahah allows people to text messages to others and the person reading that could then reply anonymously. Initially, it was meant for workers to compliment their bosses.

It was released on the US Apple App Store on June 13, 2017, and also has users in several other countries including Canada , India and Lebanon. An update was released by Snapchat on July 5. Within two weeks, it was at the number 1 position. The rise was also seen in a Google Trends report.^[4]

On 26 August 2017, it was reported that the Sarahah mobile app quietly uploads the user's address book to its web servers.^[5]

After the popularity of Sarahah, spam invites were sent by the third-party apps to the users in exchange for revealing the usernames of anonymous senders.^{[citation needed]}

On 12 January 2018, it was reported that a woman in Queensland, Australia had started a petition to have the app and others like it banned, after friends of her 13-year-old daughter sent her abusive messages, including ones suggesting that she kill herself. A news report from the Australian Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) stated that the child's mother, Katrina, "called on Apple's App Store and Google Play to stop downloads of Sarahah, which allows people to leave anonymous feedback for each other".^[6] On 21 February Katrina posted a message declaring success, saying that both Apple and Google had removed the app from their stores.^[7][8]

See also

• Anonymous social media
• Ask.fm – a service which used to be anonymous, and was linked to several teen suicides in 2013^[7]
• Secret (app) – a similar service which was shut down in 2015^[7]

References

External links

• Official website

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