Facebook Acquires tbh App: How To Get Gems, Anonymous Compliments

Facebook announced that it acquired the compliment app called tbh on Monday. The app was created in August as a place for friends to give one another anonymous compliments and feedback.

In just a few months the app has become wildly popular prompting the offer from Facebook. In the last few weeks alone more than 5 million people joined and more than a billion messages were sent over the app, said a statement from the company. The company will continue to operate somewhat on its own, under the Facebook umbrella, “Going forward, your experience on tbh won’t change and we’ll continue to build the features you love—now with plenty more resources,” said the statement.

The combination of the companies happened after a meeting revealed that they, “shared many of the same core values about connecting people through positive interactions. Most of all, we were compelled by the ways they could help us realize tbh’s vision and bring it to more people.”

According to tbh, gems are acquired by getting picked in a poll and can be used to unlock questions and other features of the app.

This is something it seems to have accomplished at least for some users. Some have taken to Twitter to talk about how much the like the app and how positive they have found their experiences to be.

What is the tbh app?

The tbh app was made as a platform for friends to provide their connections with positive feedback anonymously. What sets tbh apart from other companies is that “Unlike other anonymous apps, all the feedback is positive,” says the company's website. The hope is that the app could help friends build one another up and make them feel good about themselves. It’s available in 35 different states and on Apple devices for free. It was created by a small team of designers who work out of California.

Is the tbh app safe?

Users can find their friends on the app either through their phone contacts, usernames, friends-of-friends connections or by joining the network of their school on the app. However, all of the messages are sent anonymously, so users never know which of their friends or connections asked them a question or voted in their poll. Additionally, the app is only for students in grades 9 or higher, with an age restriction of 13 or older, and lying about age, grade or school on the app is discouraged on the site.

Tech Crunch reported that the app was purchased for less than $100 million and that the co-founders of the app, Nikita Bier, Erik Hazzard, Kyle Zaragoza and Nicolas Ducdodon will work out of Facebook’s headquarters.