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  • Fun app to use with friends

    Fun way to interact daily with close friends. One suggestion would just be about the time zones - you are prompted to do snaps at night time, when I’ll rather just anytime of the day. Also when you try to change the time zone, it would delete your BeReal?
  • Needs a few improvements

    Great idea, fair execution... the main problems are upload speed, setting captions, posting comments, and sending reactions... basically the whole functionality of the app!

    It's understandable when you have everyone logging onto the app at the same exact time, but photos take a while to upload even with good internet speed. Reactions sometimes just don't go through, or appear to go through but later you look back and your reaction isn't present on someone's post. You can't set a caption when you take a photo, only after it's posted. And often captions will appear to go through but don't, or you'll get a massive error banner when attempting to share one and it may or may not go through anyway. Same goes for comments -- either appears to go through and doesn't, or appears not to go through and may or may not. The error message usually says something like TOO_MANY_TOKENS which is of no help to a user.

    Also a major privacy concern is that the app has access to my contacts without explicitly asking for permission. Maybe this is in the terms and conditions and I mistakenly didn't read it, but your users deserve to be explicitly asked and informed of what data you're collecting. I have never let a social media app access my contacts and yet...

    So it's a fun idea but seems really bare bones and like a lot of bugs need fixing, and the contact scanning is weird.
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  • Refreshingly new and unique

    I really enjoy that BeReal is a newer platform that brings us the joys of social media and sharing with friends without the negative effects of it too. I like that it’s a way to capture what’s happening in the moment and eliminates the possibility of glamorising and editing your life to impress your followers and friends. When the front camera takes the picture I appreciate the absence of seeing what you look like as the picture is being taken as it allows for a more authentic image of you to be taken. And lastly I enjoy that everyone’s profiles is kept minimal I’m the sense that you cannot look at a feed of other people’s previous BeReal photos and ‘stalk them’, you can’t look at number of friend and compare, only the number of mutual friends you have in common is available to see. And so thank you, for creating an app which is purely fun and carefree without the harmful effects that other platforms generally have.
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  • love it !

    wish you could view others memories & vice versa
  • I was skepitcal at first

    Because my friends all had it, and started screaming whenever the notification would appear, as they treated it like a race. I thought it’d be yet another unhealthy obsession. I downloaded it reluctantly but the app is actually really good! Love the authenticity of posting at a random time! My assumption was DEFINITELY wrong. I have a suggestion for the realmojis too! It would be hilarious if you could select an emoji from the emoji keyboard as well as the default ones! This would make for some hilarious faces 😂😂 I also have a suggestion for the feed! I have a few friends on here (people from a larger community of friends) and it can sometimes be tedious scrolling down to the bottom if you want to see what a specific person was up to, so maybe a search bar could work? This would only be to search for people who you’re friends with already. tl;dr: This app is so much better than I thought it would be! Well worth the download.
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  • Really fun!

    I really enjoy it and the fun dynamic it brings to social media. It’s simple and unique way to connect with friends (especially my long distance pals!). However that being said, there are two major changes that I think could overall improve the experience. Both having to do with the memories feature. First of all, I think memories should be a feature that you can select to be visible on your profile for your friends. Sometimes I want to reminisce on my friends pages, especially if we appeared on each others BeReal. Second, memories should keep comments and RealMojis. Today, I was looking at a comment thread on one of my friends BeReals and thought…I’ll have to screenshot this thread to keep it because the comments don’t save.

    That being said, the app is great and enjoy it immensely! I think with a few more adjustments this could very quickly become my favorite form of social media…who am I kidding! It already is!
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  • Good but racially motivated and a bit savage

    This app is actually good and funny! It’s a good gen Z version of snapchat and it’s really genuine. Although, this app may give you some comments about your face. Like : why are you in your bed at 4pm or open your eyes (im asian 🥲). But other than that, good app!

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