Two minutes a day to be authentic: Does BeReal show real life?


Once a day, BeReal prompts you to post a photo combo of a selfie and a picture of your surroundings. — Photo: Laura Ludwig/dpa

BERLIN: Out of the blue in the middle of your day, the push notification hits your smartphone: "You have two minutes to post your BeReal and see what your friends are doing."

This notification sums up the concept of the popular and still relatively new photo sharing app BeReal. The idea is simple: Every day at a different time, all of the app’s users take a photo within two minutes of the notification and post it.

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