I think it had a short life, it’s like a short-lived app that was really popular, now it’s not. What the app’s about, you can’t change that, that’s the whole thing. What would change it? If it got a new setting? There’s nothing really new about it. KS: You would like, what, more? You just got bored with it. It wasn’t that fun because you can only ask 15 questions, and then you have to wait like two or three hours before you can answer another 15. I’d check it sometimes and I’d see the notifications on my phone. I used it and then I like would check it periodically and I’d see. KS: Here’s Louie saying he doesn’t like it, he got sick of it after two days. Once that hit a critical mass, they invited the TBH team down to headquarters and said probably something along the lines of, “Hey, we could either clone this and destroy you over a weekend, or we could pay you a nice chunk of change and you could just build it here.”ĬS: I don’t think that was actually ever disclosed. It got really popular and then after it seemed like about two weeks, Facebook swooped in and bought it, and it seemed to be another classic case of Facebook using some sophisticated technology to see what young people were doing with their phones. What occurred with it after it got a lot of popularity?ĬS: Sure. Casey, explain what happened to this app. There was ways around the niceness, I guess. You’d choose something that didn’t fit someone, or something like that. KS: Yeah, so did you not like the nice things, Louie? In this app, you can sort of only respond with nice things, and it took off. they would certainly use the app to bully each other. They’re automatically generated, because if it was left to the teens. The question is already there, you just choose.ĬS: Right. No, I saw him and I was like, could I? I was like, no.ĬS: You know the funny thing about this app - and a reason why I think it did take off - was that you can only ask positive questions. KS: All right, but you saw Casey’s friend request and you denied him? That was my top thing, I’m good at making things go viral. I saw you as a friend request in it.ĬS: You must be good at making things go viral. KS: Why did you do just two days? What was that deal?ĬS: Wait, Louie, you won 800 polls in two days? I think I got about like 800 from people I know, before I deleted the app. I guess some people turn it into a competition. Then you can count how many of these TBHs, I guess, you’ve gotten. Then you get to choose one who is most likely to do that, who would do that. There’s a question, it’s like, “Who’s most likely to make something viral?” Then it pops up several, like, four names, and they’re your friends. For a week everybody - actually, for me about two days - everybody was obsessed with it. Louie, in the past couple of months, what’s the coolest new app or tech thing you’ve seen? Louie, we were going to focus on you and Casey. Anyway, if we need your input, we will ask for it, but don’t say anything until then. I also have here in the room my mother, Lucretia. It was one of our most popular episodes ever, as I said, so let’s do an update. We previously had the two of you on this podcast in June, for an episode about how teens use technology and social media, and we discovered that our listeners want more. Which, as it’s turned out - again with you, Casey, together - seemed to be a team that the listeners like. The person I am here with in Washington, D.C., is my elder son, Louie Swisher, who was on a previous episode. I hope you had a happy Thanksgiving, Kara. In San Francisco we have The Verge’s Casey Newton.ĬS: I’m great. In her place, we’re delighted to bring two fan favorites back to the show, who did a previous show and it turned out to be one of the most popular we’ve done. She might still be in a food coma from Thanksgiving. My regular co-host, Lauren Goode from The Verge, couldn’t join us today because she’s working on her YouTube series called Next Level, or at least that’s what she told me. We also have an email address, Reminder, there are two Rs and two Ss in embarrassed, in case you cannot spell. You can send your questions on Twitter with the #TooEmbarrassed. This is the show where we answer all of your embarrassing questions about consumer tech. Kara Swisher: Hi, I’m Kara Swisher, executive editor of Recode, and you’re listening to Too Embarrassed to Ask, coming to you from the Vox Media podcast network. If you like this, be sure to subscribe to Too Embarrassed to Ask on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Overcast or wherever you listen to podcasts. Below, we’ve posted a lightly edited complete transcript of their conversation. You can read some of the highlights from the discussion here, or listen to it in the audio player above.
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