But regardless of the apparent age of the user, a huge portion of Whisper is about love, sex and dating.
When done well, a good Whisper can be evocative and moving.Īnd you can sort Whispers - as the anonymous confessions are called - by geography and by topic, so you can see who is Whispering in your neighborhood, or who is talking about certain specific topics.Ī lot of users seem to be teenagers. The app allows you to add a random stock-photo image or upload your own as a background to your message. Users make up a screen name, and then type in whatever dark, often shameful, secret they have for others to read. Whisper is the app for anonymous confessions. Families never speak to their relatives again over issues like this.įor one girl and her parent, huge trouble likely lies ahead.ĭark and shameful, but evocative and moving, too. It may be a year or more before this parent will have to confess to the daughter that they believe the mission was a waste of time.Īnd historically, Mormons have often excommunicated people who stray from the faith. Part of the Mormon faith requires young people to embark on a two-year-long "mission" to a far-away place, to spread the word of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
if I knew then what I know now, I would have never sent her.
I have a child on a Mormon mission and I stopped believing while she was away.