A new app encourages complete strangers to anonymously share intimate personal details with one another
A new app encourages complete strangers to anonymously share intimate personal details with one another
Social media is all about connecting with people you know, people you sort of know and people you want to get to know. But what about those you don't know and didn't know you wanted to know?

20 Day Stranger is a new app by MIT Media Lab Playful Systems that encourages you to connect at random with complete strangers. Letting users keep their identities anonymous, 20 Day Stranger acts as a portal into another person's life, feeding users regular updates on what their new found friend is getting up to, including what time they wake up in the morning, when they're travelling and where they're going. Running over a course of 20 days, at the end of the experience users are allowed to send a single message to the partner before the connection is cut.

Intended to inspire curiosity and intrigue, 20 Day Stranger is the natural progression from apps such as Secrets and Whispers which allows users anonymously exchange their best kept secrets. Other takes on anonymity include Slight and Shrtwv, both of which invite nameless digital interactions in physical spaces.