How Does BeReal Work? Everything Explained

There is a new social media app that is at the center stage. Reason? It is free from ads and shakes you from slumber to proudly mold you to be real. Yes, you will love BeReal. Many are surprised. What makes the app different? Well, BeReal doesn’t use filters, an edit button, or the “LIKE” option.

It uses real (own) face emojis, unlike cartoon emojis. It promotes sharing raw moments with the real world where it is completely normal for you to help with household chores or clean the floor from accidental spills or even press the toothpaste extra hard to use the last drop of paste.

So, if you are in the middle of such actions, your BePreal account will pose this and it is completely fine since everyone does the same. In this article, we will explore how BeReal works and the potential benefits it can offer to you.

What Is BeReal?

BeReal is a French photo-sharing social media app that due to its uniquely styled actions is becoming a rage for Gen Z. It is available on IOS and Android. Alexis Barreyat has founded it in 2019. The app is currently in the phase of gathering loads of downloads, considering the trend it has set online.

Yes, the “raw images” which were unthinkable to find a place on social media, are now happily being posted and giving a feeling that it is perfectly alright to do so.

It empowers the users to utilize a 2-minute notification period by capturing and sharing a photo once a day. It can be anything like you are munching your favorite pizza, studying, watching your favorite movie or playing soccer, or simply anything. There has been a whopping 315% rise in downloads.

BeReal Unique Features:

Here are some unique features of BeReal.

• Dual Capture Mode: BeReal activates the front and back camera simultaneously.
• Unfiltered Images: BeRal wants you to post images without using filters. Thanks to the simplicity and raw feature, that has added to its popularity. Especially, in an age of social media, where all of us are too concerned about how we carry ourselves in society. Through the app, friends can better connect among themselves for a few minutes, thereby continuing with their normal routine for rest of the day. The real essence of the app Bereal is to know the current state of friends.
• Real Mojis: BeReal uses reaction emojis using your face and not classic reaction buttons.

How Does BeReal Work?

• When the user has received a notification at a random time, they have got 2 minutes. All the friends get notifications at the same time. Well, the timing can be different every day, thus adding to the actual significance of “Be Real”. You never know while performing a certain action such as trimming your nails you are notified and you capture the front and back image within 2 minutes.
• Once the camera has popped up, press the big button. The app is designed in a  way that your phone will take two photos, one from the rear and the other one from the front camera. Ensure that you stay intact to minimize the chance of blurry images. 
• As soon as the photos are taken, you have a preview to check before you send them. You can retake them (if in case you want to retake them, you have to use both the images for same) Based on your decision to either send BeReal to the public or a network of friends, the app will accordingly share your location. In this way, all of you catch up with each other quickly. So what, if you had to unwillingly post a picture of a “fallen pizza on the floor?”. It is completely normal to show your real friends that accidents may happen at home. Isn’t it? 
• If you don’t post your own, you can’t check your friends’ BeReals as well. This is a part of socializing with your friends while being “real”. It gives you an impetus and a sense of courage to mince no words into telling what you do at your home.
• If you have missed posting, you can happily do it again but it will mention the extent of time you will be late. Similarly, if users retake photos, the app will highlight the number of times, the users have done it. Since, the advent and popularity of Bereal, people are finding a connection that it is perfectly normal to have a monotonous life and chill out later.

Socializing With BeReal Is Different:

You keep your close friends with you. It is the act of spontaneous photos that gives a new meaning to the aspect of socialization. In an age, when things on social media can easily be faked, this may mean a single picture may convey deep things within a few seconds. All of the close friends will end up socializing quickly through pictures that were earlier impossible to be posted on social media.

What Is The Monetization Aspect Of BeReal?

Similar to the big wigs of the industry which have started with self-finance, BeReal is no different. The investors after seeing a farsighted approach to the app have created it with zeal. Its popularity is proof as well. Using the app is free and there are no ads to inconvenience you as well. Considering the pace with which it is rising to the charts of popularity, the aspect of monetization will surely be in the cards of the manufacturers/investors though.

Be At Your Normal Best:

BeReal has taught Gen Z to love themselves for what they are. It is “perfectly” fine not to post images with lip-gloss or make-up. A pleasant change is on the cards, where the young generation is now coming closer to the acceptance, that they don’t have to live in the fancy world anymore. They are beautiful from within, and that’s what matters more than anything. It is also completely fine to have a life where certain days are monotonous or you feel low and then chill out at other times.

Conclusion:

Finally, after reading the aforesaid post on “How to use Bereal” you get a sense of how authenticity and simplicity are becoming costlier than ever before. In an age of social media where the cosmetic world has been taken by storm as people have literally moved away from being “real”.

BeReal is helping an increasing number of users to get the feeling that they are beautiful in their original form. It is not necessary that you always need to deck up for social media.

Many of us have been too concerned about our image in society. “We are pressurized to consider ourselves to be what we are not”. However, should change for the better./