Binky Is an IPhone App for People Who Conflict Over Social Media
iPhone: The only thing better than using social media is not using social media. That’s why there are Binky , both.
Binky is an app that allows you to perform social media actions (swipe through images, scroll through images, comment on images) without actually contacting people. It’s a never-ending feed of images of things from potato bread toLynn Margulis .
The app combines features from all the different social networks, such as Tinder-style swiping to the right and re-linking binoculars (“Do you want to reinstall these binoculars? It doesn’t do anything”). When you add a bink to your favorites (as they call their posts), an explosion of stars appears. Congratulations!
It also gives you the illusion of choice, allowing you to type on a keyboard that generates comments with lots of hashtags and emojis such as “so cool! Sometimes I feel like I’m looking into an abyss in high resolution, and it turns my soul into pixels. but that’s great. #emptylife #getitgirl #mfw “and” I don’t know, I like this, but it’s problematic ? ? ? “.
“Binky is just as pointless as other social media apps, but I’m talking about it beforehand,” Binky creator Dan Kurtz told NPR .
Sometimes it feels like it’s doing too much, such as letting you swipe left and right across windows, and giving you the ability to annotate and reshape windows. But that’s the point: it’s a social media fidget cube that gives you content that you can mindlessly scroll through without having to log into social media.
Unfortunately, the app is only available for iOS , but will soon launch on Android as well.