BeReal is the newest social network app that is gaining popularity with Gen Z. The app has its users take pictures of themselves and their surroundings with their front and rear cameras at the same time for two minutes during the day in order to show their reality.

Today Explained: Photo-Sharing App BeReal Sees Spike in Users

It's time for today explained where we break down some of the biggest stories in the news, how we got here, where we go next to be real or not to be real. That's the question millions of people ask themselves every single day if you haven't heard of the app, be real. It's a photo sharing platform that allows users to post a photo from both the front and rear cameras simultaneously at a different time every day. The app notifies you that it's time to be real and gives you two minutes to post a picture from where ever you are. You can post late, but the idea is that you can see what your friends are doing in real time. No filters and no followers. The french app has been around for two years, but it's quickly gaining popularity right now. It boosts, boasts more than 15 million daily active users. A year ago. There were just 10,000 even Harry styles. Stop this concert at Madison Square Garden on thursday night. I was there by the way, I wasn't the fan, but he did take a be real video for a fan, take a look. My big social media shine. It's real. We love harry styles. All right, we all know how Silicon Valley works. If you can't beat them. Buy them. If you can't buy them copy them. Rival social media platforms are now trying to recreate the be real experience. Tiktok has announced a new feature called Tiktok now, which sends users a daily notification reminding them to post a video or photo of what they're doing in that moment. The move comes as instagram confirmed. It's working on a similar feature called I. G. Candid challenges and weeks after Snapchat debuted its own dual camera mode. Sound familiar well as popular as it may be. There are some major privacy concerns about the real as the images provide information about where a person is at a particular point in time. While the pictures are typically shared with a network of close friends, there's also an option to share your images publicly through a discovery page, which security experts are concerned about, especially when it comes to kids. Parents and guardians are advised to talk to their Children about be real and make sure they're careful about the content they post and who they're sharing it with.