app lets you go anonymous

[Strangebuddy]

Lots of people would probably like to be able to not be themselves for awhile. A lot of the stories on here are about people living wild lifestyles and praying they don’t get caught...but with technology and social media getting ever more present, it’s hard to not get tagged or have your full background available within a few minutes...

But what if there was an app that didn’t just mask your online presence but also made people unable to recognize you?

For example let’s say some woman is sick of acting uptight and does an amateur night at the strip club. Normally the club doesn’t allow pictures but some asshole got her photo...but since she had the app, no one can recognize her.

So what would people do with this app? Now let’s be a bit kind and say that it will automatically turn off if you try to INTENTIONALLY do something harmful and illegal. So no stealing, murder, or rape. What it protects you from is shame and professional consequences.

So let’s say that shy guy who is overstressed, closeted, and desperate to keep a scholarship, turns the app on, hooks ups with a couple guys and girls, goes streaking, and then wakes up the next morning with no one knowing he did any of it.

Also: what is the cost? What do the app makers want?

One possibility is that if you don’t want the app’a effects to leave, you need to keep doing things you’d be embarrassed about. Maybe the makers feed off the fear of the users who are scared they’ll be caught or maybe it’s to get blackmail material.

 

[Hypoxia]

Technology trick: devising an app that forces a standard phone to broadcast interference signals. IMHO easier would be a cheap blocking device (maybe a micro-USB phone plugin) that radiates extreme electro-noise, disrupting all local electronics. Twist a knob to extend the silent-zone range. Side-effect: the user is sterilized by EMF radiation. Yow.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Sounds kind of like a masquerade party.

 

[CuteSlaveLisa]

Uh, such a device exists already its called THE INTERNET.

Lisa Ann

 

[Hypoxia]

Sounds kind of like a masquerade party.

Yes. Masks, disguises, facial cammo, hair change, plastic surgery. Or act, move, walk, dress, talk differently; carry unexpected object(s); be in unexpected place(s). Use new drugs. Avoid unnecessary amputations.

 

[UltimateHomeBody]

How could an app help disguise you if you are dancing at a strip club And someone takes a photo?

I thought virtual networks were used to hide you from the internet. Not that tech savvy but heard about it.

 

[Strangebuddy]

It’s a somewhat magical app. Essentially if someon takes your photo, you’ll see yourself in it but no one else will, they’ll just see a generic person. However, if you ever uninstall the app or quit the service, everyone will suddenly recognize you in the photos and remember what you did.

 

[SimonDoom]

It’s a somewhat magical app. Essentially if someon takes your photo, you’ll see yourself in it but no one else will, they’ll just see a generic person. However, if you ever uninstall the app or quit the service, everyone will suddenly recognize you in the photos and remember what you did.

Extra plot wrinkles:

The app doesn't work unless the phone is on, phone service is available, and it's close to you. So you are constantly at risk if the phone or service stops working.

Blackmail angle: Your account is hacked and controlled by a third person, who blackmails you into doing more and more outrageous exhibitionist acts and threatens to uninstall and expose you if you don't go along.