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Daily Archives: December 19, 2014

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Yakety Yak: What’s Up With Yik Yak?

Blog, FeaturedBy Justin W. PatchinDecember 19, 20141 Comment

I first wrote about Yik Yak back in March, when the app took several suburban schools by storm. High school administrators around Chicago were deluged with incidents stemming from inappropriate student use of this app, ranging from bullying to bomb threats. To their credit, the administrators of the app responded quickly and restricted its use…

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