Social media brings out new topics of debate, and one of the most discussed is cyber bullying. Earlier this month, apps tbh and Sarahah gained rapid popularity but quickly became a sore spot for some.

Both apps are designed to allow people to post opinions anonymously. “It’s fun; people post the things they get, and they’re all positive, so I think it’s a good thing; it boosts confidence,” Becca Bennett, junior, said.

   Tbh is an anonymous poll. Users have a handful of statements or questions to choose the best fit to describe four people on their friends’ list. The statements, designed by the makers of the app, are all positive, providing a safer environment on the app.

However, tbh does not update its questions very often, and the same questions will keep coming up. “The questions got repetitive, and I got bored; that’s when I deleted it,” Cole Roy, junior, said.

Sarahah is an anonymous messenger app.  The user is allowed to submit any kind of message  with no consequences.

This app is similar to ask.fm, a once popular app that led to cyber bulling in 2012. Ask.fm was a message board that allowed users to remain anonymous.

“I think they’re pointless, and it’s just a way for people to say what they would never say in person, which I think is cowardly,” Haley James, sophomore, said.

Students go to school, live by the same seven classes for ten months out of the year, and try to go to sleep before three a.m. In a life of mediocrity, in some ironic way, drama and gossip may be the only spontaneity teens have in their everyday lives.