Streetchat - Image Board for Schools and Colleges
By Amanda Bindel,
Common Sense Media Reviewer
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Anonymous image board a hotbed for bullying, crude content.
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What’s It About?
Upon opening STREETCHAT, users are assigned a username, and their location is detected. They can choose their school from the list of high schools and colleges and see images that others from that school have posted. They also can view a "best of" list of images. To post an image, users can choose one from their camera rolls, take one on the spot, or create one using text or the built-in meme generator. The leaderboard shows users whose images have received the most "upvotes."
Is It Any Good?
Though the idea of a local image board could be spun as community-building, anonymous posting with no moderation is more likely to destroy communities. When users first open Streetchat, they agree to the rules -- no pornography, no bullying -- along with reading a note that the content is not moderated but will be removed if enough people "downvote" it. That leaves plenty of time for enough people to see an image that could do some real damage. Content is tacky at best and hateful at worst, and the comments fall in the same categories. The one well-done feature is the meme creator, which includes dozens of meme images and a text editor that makes customizing memes easy. Really, if Streetchat could get rid of everything but the meme creator, it'd be a worthwhile, fun download.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about the dangers of anonymous posting sites and the potential for bullying. Watch our video on cyberbullying and discuss it.
Stress to kids how to be safe and remind them to never give out personal information or meet up with a stranger, even if the person presents himself as a student from their school.
Parents can read more about Streetchat's potential misuses in our article "Do you Know Streetchat?"
App Details
- Devices: iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad , Android
- Pricing structure: Free
- Release date: October 15, 2014
- Category: Social Networking
- Publisher: Factyle
- Version: 2.4
- Minimum software requirements: iOS 7.0 or later; Android 4.0 and up
- Last updated: July 12, 2020
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