App that avoids bullying behaviour by offering pre-checked questions is latest popular social-media app owned by company after 1bn messages were sentFacebook has acquired TBH, an app that allows teens to send anonymous compliments to each other. By forcing users to only communicate through pre-checked questions, the app can keep things positive. Similar to Instagram and WhatsApp, Facebook is leaving the app to run largely unaltered, with the same staff now operating from its Menlo Park headquarters. “When we met with Facebook, we realised that we shared many of the same core values about connecting people through positive interactions,” TBH said in its statement. Following its purchase, Facebook now owns the second, third, fifth and sixth most downloaded free apps on the US iOS App Store – two, Facebook and Messenger, because it built them, and two, Instagram and TBH, because it bought them.

Source: The Guardian October 17, 2017 11:34 UTC