Parents need to be on the look out for Yik Yak on their children’s smart phones. This new social media app that launched just three months ago is spreading like wildfire and creating havoc in schools and the lives of it’s users. Here’s what parents need to know

The app store states “You must be at least 17 years old to download this app.” That is apparently not stopping anyone.

Yik Yak can have frequent/intense sexual content, nudity, profanity, crude humor, and references to alcohol, tobacco, or drug use.

Yik Yak allows anonymous comments or posts done using an alias.

Users believe that there is no way to trace the source of the messages, but police were able to arrest a juvenile after investigators learned where the post was made after receiving