Ironically, A**nymous App Secret Is Hatching IRL Meetups

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Ironically, A**nymous App Secret Is Hatching IRL Meetups
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On a**nymous social media app Secret (http://mashable.com/category/secret/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), you can be anyone you want — even yourself.

My new acquaintance, whom we'll call Steve, has just organized one of the first Secret IRL meetups, which began with this simple Secret: "Starting yet a**ther expensive, consumption habit: artisanal whiskey. San Francisco, you can keep your $4 toast."

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The Secret appeared in my feed because Steve is a "friend of friend," meaning a contact saved in my phone book is also saved in his. It could easily be someone we exchanged numbers with for an OKCupid date or to purchase furniture via Craigslist. The social filtering is what makes Secret unique from other a**nymous apps Yik Yak and Whisper (http://mashable.com/category/whisper/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) — there's ** guarantee you'll see all posts from friends, because each user only sees a few new posts each day. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/17/secret-app-meetups/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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