One of the up and coming new Facebook Applications is Honesty Box. When you install it, you can send an anonymous message to any of your facebook friends. Only that friend sees the message, along with whether the sender is male of female. The creators say that they will soon add the ability for people to respond to messages. In the user reviews, some people have asked for the ability to have messages appear to everyone on their profile. I suspect they’ll add that as an option in the future, too.
But for now, if you’re dying to tell someone that you have a crush on them, or perhaps complain about their body odor, Honesty Box may be just the application you were looking for.
Another feature to add is to send anonymous that are NOT friends, that would be interesting.
The funny thing is with these “anonymous” apps is that you can see which applications your friend has added, and in order to write in someone’s honesty box you have to add the app. So unless a substantial portion of your friends have the app it’s pretty easy to tell who it is via process of elimination.
If it spreads to more profiles it’ll be great.
Actually, they added a feature that allows you to send messages to friends without an HB
I just found it hilarious you corrected him almost a year and a half later. I don’t think they had the feature back then.
i find it funnier that you reply to him a year and half later
lmao XD too great
I wish it was a year and a half later so I could comment.
Great application. I’ve found that people love anonymous (or rather MORE anonymous chat).
One of my pet projects is http://www.Inte...active8Ball.com, where 8ball questions are routed anonymously to other users who answer your questions. As we know from many an anonymous blog comment, people love giving their opinion when it can’t be traced back o them. Similarly, people seem to enjoy getting opinions from random strangers as well.
I see a potential problem with this app:
If a person is verbally threatened with this tool from a “friend”, will there by recourse in tracking down and unearthing the person ID ? I suppose the app is restricted to only friends, which makes this less likely, but this could be easily hacked, allowing any FB member to send anonymous messages to say … an ex-girlfriend, for example. Witness the emergence of “Stalk-book”.
The app will hopefully result in a preference denying anonymous messages … which would be a happy medium. Let the romantics whisper sweet nothings to each other while protecting those who wish to be left alone by those too cowardly or shy to connect with them directly.
I was just wondering if you CAN see you sent it to you without having to brag them into telling you…
They have to be on your friends list to send you something right? Well this “friend” of mine shouldnt be on my list because they said something very mean in my box…and I REALLY want to know who it is and they shouldnt be on my friends list anymore! Thanks!
The biggest problem with the Facebook platform is the spam you get from friends asking you to add a particular app. My application requests are building up at a rate of knots; there must be a better way to handle this?
Andre & Phil,
Just to clear up something about the app – anyone who can access the users profile can post something in their honesty box. So it opens up the possible contributors to anyone in your larger network. So you can have people who are NOT friends post.
Erik
that makes absolutely no sense. Only friends can access another’s profile, so how can non-firends write in the honesty box?
you can make it so only people you want to see it can ,you have to set up though through FB under settings and then privacy then profile and go from there
great application, this exemplifies everything great about web 2.0 business. I anticipate a $50m buyout from google within 3 months, I’m sure they want to expand into this space.
heh the honest app /
honestly is too small fo niche` for TC to cover!
We are developing a few Facebook applications for a few bay area sites. The FB platform has a few major bugs they need to work out, but overall it has turned out to be a great social foundation.
Male OF Female eh?
I can’t believe I was the first to catch this.
You weren’t, the rest just realized what they meant. They didn’t have the urge to correct someone else.
There does seem to be some issues with this. Like mentioned, both parties have to have the app installed. So even with only a couple hundred friends you can probably narrow it down especially based on male or female.
Just doesn’t quite seem that anonymous…
Actually, anyone who can see your profile can make a comment in your Honesty box, whether they have the app. installed or not… so it can be real hard trying to figure it out, cuz it might not even be one of your friend, as long as they can see your profile by being in your network.
So for me…only my friends can see my facebook page, so can only my friends write in my HB?
It seems that I have ran into a unique issue…somebody left an anonymous message but their statement was not color coded at all.
that just means the person has not listed whether they or male or female on FB.
about what Panama Jack said… i’ve actually been threatened recently through it. it’s a real panzy move i know… i’ve got it narrowed down to three people itcould be and i really would like to block my profile to them… but i don’t know exactly who it is. if there were an option of blocking this person or something it would be really great.
you CAN write in a person honesty box w/o being friends with them.
To Anonymous Joe, you can block the person. Under their comment it should have an option to block the person.
I think one day honesty box should reveal, EVERYONE, instead of having the question marks one day they should have their name, LOL…
if your profiles’ security setting are set on that only your friends can view your profile then its impossible for anybody to write in your honesty box without being friends wiht you.. and also i wonder if theres a way to find out who sent these anonymous things.. hmm
everyone keeps saying that you have to add the application to write in someone elses..but it CLEARLY sayds that anyone one of your friends, if they had the app or not, can still write in yours….so using the people that have honesty box to narrow it down is not a way to do it
This application can sometimes even be hurtful to those who are being said rude comments.
is there a way to find out who sent you the message? A friend said there is a connection between the url of the message and the url of the person’s profile. someone help me?
If you don’t like what they say, maybe you should look for the resolution, within yourself. Ahhh
There should be a way that I can view my Honesty Box Comments ceom my cell. I have a Blackberry Curve and I am not able to see the comments. Can someone help me?
The thing I really want to know is who has been sending honesty box’s to me?
I want to know how to figure it out; I want to know so badly. >_<
I think honesty box is cruel and all people really say is nasty stuff about u
hey, i was just wondering how you write in other people’s honesty boxes when you don’t have one, and they don’t have the app on their profile.. can anyone helpp??
thannkkksss.
thank u