tellonym - anonymous questions Reviews

First off, I downloaded this app when curioiscat suddenly disappeared. It’s been an adequate replacement to let my followers send in ideas and comments and the like. The problems I have for it are 1. tellonym itself frequently prompts you to add personal information you may not want tied to an account online (occupation, gender, phone number). This may be fine for people who use it casually with friends attached to a personal account, but it’s not so good for online creators who stay somewhat anonymous. 2. The bot questions tellonym generates on its own are VERY annoying. They’re very basic question that are not fun to answer and just exist to help get this app’s name out there. If you delete them, another will come in a few minutes. These need to be gotten rid of to not clog up the inbox or send a notification that there’s a question when it’s just a boring question generated by tellonym . This is my BIGGEST complaint with this app. Get rid of the bot questions. If I want fake questions not sent by friends or followers that badly, I can just anon them to myself. It’s the same amount of genuine interaction with followers 😑

The short version: this app is toxic. Kids should not have it.
Detail: This is an app that allows anyone to post anything about other users, while remaining anonymous. It is heaven for trolls who want to post the most vile, graphically violent, racist, misogynistic and sexual messages imaginable. Some messages seem to taunt users to consider suicide. (“Why are you even alive? Nobody likes you.”) In addition, this app allows plenty run-of-the-mill cyberbullying like: “You think you have friends, Sophie, but we all really hate you.” And because the company promises it will never reveal who posts this garbage, there is nothing you can do but request to delete it (which they may or may not), and then calm your devastated child who installed tellonym behind your back, because “Everyone has it.” Oh, and it’s the perfect haven for pedophiles to contact tweens and teens, masquerading as kids themselves and asking your child seemingly innocent questions like where they go to school, or requesting that they post a photo! Found some of those, too. This does unbelievable damage to kids’ self-esteem and mental health. There is nothing good that can come of having tellonym. Check your child’s phone and if it’s there, talk to them about why you need to delete it.

I tried to open my this app 2 days ago but when i try to open it it just kicks me back out to my home screen. I tried opening it again today but its still not opening for me. When i click on it it opens for 1-2 seconds then kicks me back out to my home screen. Whats going on??? Is it an issue with my phone or is this happening to anyone else???

I've been using this app since CuriousCat went down and I've had a couple issues. Since CC seems to be back now I figured I'd send a review detailing those issues since if these things aren't changed there's a decent chance I'll just be going back to CC and I'm sure many others share my thoughts.

First of all, THE BOTS. GET RID OF THEM. Everybody is saying it! The constant fake tells that are always being sent in are ridiculous and shouldn't exist. It's obvious that they're just trying to make tellonym seem more active than it is but all it really accomplishes is annoying people.

Second of all, if you have your filters set to the lowest settings, then nothing should be being filtered? Right?
...Right?
Well apparently not.
And tellonym doesn't tell you what words or phrases aren't allowed nor does it tell you if something you send isn't allowed through. Instead it acts as though it sent the tell even though it didn't. It is very frustrating. Why would you have so much unnecessary filtering on an app made for anonymous messaging? Let people choose what gets filtered rather than deciding for them. You already have an option to filter specific words and phrases as well as different levels of automatic filtering so why not an option to just turn it off altogether?

This is a great app. I really do enjoy using tellonym because I can ask my friends questions without them knowing that it’s me asking. But after a while, I started getting some tells that contained some personal information that are very sensitive. Then a week later my friend started to get some tells saying things like “go kill yourself, no one cares about you” and “I heard you tried to hang yourself before. To bad it failed.” My friend, already being suicidal, started to believe these negative comments and has since began to question her existence. I am trying my best to help her, but these negative tells just coming in and it’s making it hard to convince her that she is wanted and that people do love and care for her. Please use caution while using tellonym.

I used to like tellonym, yes people can be negative but that’s what happens when you let people talk to you 100% anonymously 😂 here’s the problem, I can’t even get through 1 tell without getting a “we need a break” pop up. This used to not be a thing, at least for me. Now I literally can’t use tellonym , can you please get your app together this app? Also, I’ve received hateful tells before and I address them respectfully. Sometimes I get a bit sassy, but I never say anything inappropriate! Then I’ll get warnings telling me to not answer those tells because those people were inappropriate, that should not be my fault! I answer all tells good or bad, and because people decide to abuse your system shouldn’t be my fault. If somebody tells me to kill myself or something I’m going to reply, I won’t be inappropriate like they were, but I will reply most likely with a sarcastic answer with a lot of laughing faces 😂

The bot questions are incredibly annoying. As a creator, I look forward to getting questions from those who read the things that I post, so every time I get a notification from tellonym I get excited because I’m expecting to see a genuine question that has something to do with what I’ve posted, but 99% of the time it’s just another auto generated question that is basic and not personalized at all. They questions are boring and pop up frequently and there’s seemingly nothing you can do to opt out of receiving them. At least with CC they gave you an option to stop receiving those kinds of questions but tellonym doesn’t, and it’s the most irritating thing in the world. I think I’ll take my chances with CuriousCat again or try out another platform/app because this one is hellbent on trying to get you to interact with it by sending stupid questions all the time.

Last night, a student took a screenshot of an anxiety-inducing message sent anonymously to her this app account. The sender of the message threatened that he would bring his guns to school, and commence a shooting during first period. This worried many students, who quickly spread it across Instagram as a warning to their friends and community members. Even the principal was alerted within an hour of the message posting, and the state police department was notified.

If the developers could make this a reality, I think many situations like this could be prevented. Regulating the anonymous messages via flagged words or phrases and having a way to keep track of who sends the messages would be very much appreciated. I know it may be difficult for the developers to implement because of privacy rights, but this would be a great call.

It is hard for the school administration to determine if this is a legitimate threat, and it would make it so much easier for us to solve this problem if these suggestions can be implemented.

If this is possible in any ways, then please. Make it happen. We need to protect our schools and our students. I myself am a student, and I do not want to attend school with the fear that we could be next.

tellonym supports toxicity to the max. all tellonym allows is for people to be anonymously toxic to you and get away with it. and their membership feature is a letdown. it supports toxicity because why would i want hints on who is messaging me unless they were being toxic or getting personal with me? i have been bullied so much that i ended up paying for membership, just to get ridiculous tips like 'sender is in another city' 'sender's first tell in a while' like thanks for taking the last $1.99 out of my account. tellonym has caused me nothing but issues for years but now i am bringing this to light after being spammed multiple tells in one night by complete strangers of how awful i am and how gross i am. do not use tellonym if you have a sensitive mindset. and definitely do not give them money and support this. it's so toxic.

I like tellonym, I think it’s cool. BUT, most of the questions you get aren’t really from your friends. There are questions that are so clearly from tellonym itself and not a friend, and it’s frustrating. Questions asking about bands I know none of my friends have ever heard of, and all my friends seem to get the same question asking if you could live without the internet. tellonym is a cool idea, but it’s stupid if most of the questions and tells aren’t even real. If you guys could just get rid of that feature my review would be higher, it just makes users feel stupid, like we can’t handle going a day without a tell so you slip us a fake one. Just remove it. It’s pointless.

I had originally downloaded tellonym, believing that it was a good idea for my followers on instagram, and twitter as well, to ask questions. I thought tellonym was going to be friendly and a good environment, but boy was I wrong.

Almost immediately, I was receiving negativity and hate towards me. It continued for months regardless of how many times that I had asked to PLEASE stop sending negativity and hate, but it continued. I even EMAILED these people who created tellonym, but they had said that there was nothing they could do if their name was anonymous even when their policy is against that type of thing.

What do I recommend? Save yourself the time and effort and do not download this. Its just another toxic environment.

tellonym is not good at all! Being able to be anonymous while posting things on here resulted into something that was probably not meant for tellonym! But it is one way for people to send threats. And this is happening to my school right now. Someone sent a message to a student at my school and said that they are going to shoot up our school, and kill everyone and anyone. This is no joke! tellonym should be deleted! This gives people a way to threat someone without being found. Now we may never know who this person is threatening our school. And we won’t know if we are safe until someone can get to the bottom of who is in charge of the threats! DO NOT USE tellonym. They need to delete it ASAP!

I need help getting back into my account but it doesn’t have an option for your phone number for me to just put my Instagram information in instead they want information that I no longer have because I got a new phone I do not have the same Apple information which is really stupid because you can prove that you on the account just my regular login and that one of the extra stuff and too complicated for somebody I just want to get inside their accounts because I do not have a Twitter or my old Apple information and I can’t just log into my account need help getting back in too complicated

Love tellonym , the only thing I despise is the “are you done sharing?” Notification. Can’t find a way to turn it off, and I’ve seen others couldn’t either do I don’t think it’s possible.
I don’t mind the boys asking questions, but that one notification drives me up the wall. Might not be as bad if it only asked it once a day, but I hate having it come up every single time I exit tellonym .
Otherwise, it’s a fun app! My followers seem to enjoy asking me anonymous things.

It’s a good app. I also seen some comments about how y’all should make it possible to log into multiple account at once cause lots of ppl use it through Instagram and some ppl like me have more then one Instagram account so I wanna make more account but don’t wanna log in and out of them all the time. Plus my bf has one and I can log into in form the website but I can’t like stay logged it yk. So ye I think that would be cool.

I downloaded tellonym in hopes of curing my boredom, and I got a lot of tells. However, I don’t know if they were real or not, considering that tellonym kept pressuring me to repost the questions and answers on my other social media platforms. When I didn’t repost, the questions kind of stopped in a way? So I kind of think that tellonym might just have a bot controlling the whole thing 🤷🏼‍♀️? Other than that concern, tellonym is kind of hard to navigate, but it’s good for q&a’s and curing your boredom.

There’s are many cons as well as a few pros about tellonym. In my own personal experience I can surely tell you that I have gotten a lot of tells with threats, homophobic and transphobic rants, and other harsh things. This is very bad for those who have already bad mental health or children. Parents my suggestion is highly monitor tellonym on your child’s phone if they have it and if they get any bad tells delete it from their phone. The only pro I could think of is my friends now boyfriend flirted with her using tellonym and now they’re dating so yay for them. Other than that tellonym is bad for children or anyone with un stable mental health my own.

It does what it says and it’s really simple to use and I never had any problems besides one it says I have a certain amount of followers but when I check it only shows I have certain amount which is less so idk if it’s a bug but other than that I get the messages and it’s easy to use

While I have received nothing but complements and fun questions, it has the power to devastate others. One of the people I’m following is getting nothing but hate and death threats and overall serious cyber bullying.

To make tellonym better, all people should be forced to create an account before sending tells in. One of the bully’s stated in his tell that he couldn’t be blocked or banned because he didn’t have an account. It is a serious mishap to let something like no account into tellonym , and I have to wonder what the creators were thinking by allowing it.

1) Can you PLEASE make it an option to turn off the suggestions of people to follow? It’s really obnoxious. 2) Also, I don’t know if this happens to anyone else, but my notifications on my phone and on tellonym say that I’ll get badges/banners/etc when I get a new tell but that never happens? I don’t know if that’s a glitch or it’s just me it’s happening to but please look into it.

I really do love tellonym. Aside from the occasional rude or judgmental tells I’ve received, it’s a really good distraction for me!

i love tellonym and it runs great and everything but i’m not getting any notifications when i get a new tell...? i’ve turned the settings in tellonym off and back on again and i’ve turned them off and back on again my phone settings but i’m still not getting them? if there’s any way to fix this it would be much appreciated! i love tellonym and keep up the good work!!

Overall this is a really good app, but the links are no longer working. The only way to post things is to do it directly in tellonym now. I post my link in my Instagram bio so people can comment but the links are broken now for some reason. Please find a way to fix this or there's no reason for me to even have tellonym . Anyways, besides that, this is a really good app with a lot of potential.

Why are this app users banned for answering tells sent to them? A user should not be afraid to answer tells. Point blank. I have gotten 12 accounts banned because of people sending me “kill yourself” messages, and i would keep replying with “id rather not.”
Why do i get banned for that? Im not sending nor replying with anything rude, or mean. why not ban the one who sent me that tell? Why punish users for being victims of the cyberbullying your app allows? Why allow the cyberbullies to be set free while the victims are shut down? Fix your report system. Its ridiculous.

Not a bad app. I like it! Only downfall being when I try to share my profile on Snapchat when I try to take the picture, the widget goes away so the only way I can link it is through the paperclip. Also I wish the questions of the day or whatever they are were marked different so I could tell a question that someone has asked me from a question tellonym gives me.