Sometimes It's Just A Project We Did Together, Not Beginning Of A Beautiful Friendship

Engage when you need to, and disengage, completely, when you want to

I recently participated in a venue-based activity incorporating There.App: a game where we were assigned good or evil roles, unbeknownst to each other, and then we find out information (sometimes disinformation) through discreet conversations with other players. A lot of those exchanges happened directly in very-private There.App Chat, and our software was also resource for game’s background information, and more – including taking players’ lasagna orders.

Afterwards, I had an exchange with one of the players about her experience including feedback about the app integration with game-play, and she wrote, “I was able to easily chat with {name_redacted}, the imp, since I was [also] on the evil side. I don't know {name_redacted} very well, nor have his phone number so the app made that easy. And it allowed me not to share my personal number. Who knows? {name_redacted} might be a weirdo I don't want having my contact info. So it's a good way to connect while protecting my privacy.”

That’s exactly what we’re going for! We stress being especially respectful of user privacy for multiple reasons. One of them, like this case illustrates, is that the people being coordinated in a place often come together for that specific activity and then go their own ways once it's done, or even if it is a more regular  group, there may be certain rotational participants, maybe connected to other organizations, only engaging with everyone else during the specific project. In There.App these users can be as accessible as they choose while everything’s live, with capacity to completely disassociate and be invisible to others once things wrap up.

Sometimes users do want to get fully acquainted and be openly available to each other. There.App supports this as well. Use can range from someone concealing personal email, selecting “NoneOfYourBiz” as nickname shown to teammates and vanishing from a project with completion of responsibilities, to someone posting multiple profile photos, linking out to social media accounts, and sharing a range of ways to be contacted in the app or by one click access outside the app to use of phone, email, and even ability within There.App to show their live location. Or not. Totally their choice and in their clear control.

From over-sharers to imps and weirdos, There.App empowers each user to control exactly how and when they make themselves accessible to project teammates.