Popular App Delivers Anonymous Abuse

I read a newspaper article in the New York Times based off a popular app called 'Yik Yak'. This uproar began at Eastern Michigan University last fall, when a teaching assistant brought attention to an honors class three female professors. 230 or so of the students in the class had been posting demeaning posts including crude, sexually explicit language and imagery. One of the professors, Margaret Crouch sent out emails, with evidence of these posts, to various university officials, urging them to take some sort of action. Unfortunately, nothing was done to help this situation, due to the posts being anonymous. Even though the app has only been introduced little more than a year ago, it has been used to issue threats of mass violence on more than a dozen colleges campuses: University of  North Carolina, Michigan State University, and Penn State. This app was actually created by Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington, who graduated from Furman University. They created the app to "create a more democratic social media network, one where users didn't need a large number of followers or friends to have their posts read widely". While I understand their reasoning to make this app, I hope the cyberbullying on it begins to be handled.