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I'Snapchat friends," his high school classmates who were using the anonymous <br /> apps Yolo and <br /> LMK on Snapchat to hide their identities. It wasn't until Carson was a freshman in <br /> high school <br /> that we finally allowed him to have social media because that was how all the <br /> students were <br /> making new connections. What we didn't know is that apps like Yolo and LMK <br /> were using <br /> popular social media platforms to promote anonymous messaging to hundreds of <br /> millions of teen <br /> users. <br /> After his death, we discovered that Carson had received nearly 100 negative, <br /> harassing, sexually <br /> explicit, and humiliating messages, including 40 in just one day. He asked his <br /> tormentors to <br /> "swipe up" and identify themselves so they could talk things out in person. No <br /> one ever did. The <br /> last search on his phone before Carson ended his life was for hacks to find out <br /> the identities of <br /> his abusers. <br /> Anonymous apps like Whisper, Sarahah, and YikYak have a long history of <br /> enabling <br /> cyberbullying, leading to teen suicides.1 The critical flaws in these platforms are <br /> compounded by <br /> the fact that teens do not typically report being cyberbullied. They are too fearful <br /> that their <br /> phones to which they are completely addicted will be taken away or that they will <br /> be labeled a <br /> 14 <br />