Meet Binky, the anti-social media simulator
Binky gives you a social media feed to interact with. Posts are called Binks. You can comment on stuff, you can like the things you enjoy, you can even re-Bink things. You can even swipe right and left on stuff, if that’s your preferred UI for expressing your desires or hang-ups.
The twist is that nothing you do makes it out into the real world; all your liking, re-Binking and swiping is completely, utterly, unavoidably futile. It’s kind of like being in space, where nobody can hear you scream.
“It started out as a joke,” Dan Kurtz, the app’s creator says.
“As soon as I started showing it to people, they said it felt a little bit like a nicotine patch for social media,” Kurtz said. “I put it out on the app store, and then the guy who made Cow Clicker — itself a satire on Farmville — ended up writing an articleabout it, and the rest is history.”
The app is free on iOS, and Kurtz suggests that an Android version is in the pipeline.
See the full story here: https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/10/binky/?ncid=tcdaily&utm_medium=TCnewsletter