"Getting the alert, especially during the workday or at night when I wouldn't normally be taking photos or posting anything, was a little stressful," one friend said. They all took issue not with the app's spurious claims to authenticity but with its demands on their time. Of my BeReal friends, 100% have plans to delete the app after this article publishes. Read more: After Today's Wordle, Try These 21 Other Puzzle Games How real is BeReal, really? But I totally won on the day the two-minute window coincided with the " greatest two minutes in sports," and I got a snap of my Kentucky Derby fascinator and Rich Strike crossing the finish line on TV.
I "lost" BeReal several times: when the notification arrived after I'd gone to bed, was presenting during a camera-on Zoom meeting or was driving on the highway. The daily anticipation around when it would arrive, he added, is "like a Jack in the box."īeReal notifies you every day at a random time, with only two minutes to post a photo. "Hoping that I get the notification during my exciting moments and not when I'm pooping," he texted me one day. There's an element of luck, too, if you happen to be somewhere cool when it's time to be real and not on your couch or, as one of my friends feared, on the toilet. You can't technically win BeReal like you can Wordle, but I soon came to understand the particular satisfaction of achieving the trifecta: capturing an interesting tableau, taking a flattering selfie and posting it all on time. Once, I posted the same view from my balcony that a dinner guest Instagrammed (and filtered the heck out of). More often than not, my own BeReal front camera photos were unflattering ones of my weary, grumpy face while my back camera captured my son smearing ketchup around his highchair tray. The friends who did take the bait began posting gamely, often photos of their laptops or cats or protein powder. Another friend: "This feels like a trap." My own spouse left me on read. One friend couldn't get past the usual AI-training paranoia around novelty photo-sharing apps. Not being a member of Gen Z myself, I knew it would be difficult to convince enough friends to join me. I had a hunch the app would be more of a fun group activity than a true social feed, for the same reason I sometimes still exchange Wordle (or Worldle, Heardle, or Antiwordle) results over text but can't understand why anyone is still tweeting them.
I started recruitment by putting feelers out in a couple of my existing group chats.
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