“No one asked H. to prom because no one has a forklift."

Those were some of the cruel messages students were writing about one another on a buzzy new anonymous gossip app last week.

“That’s what made it all the more shocking, that good people I like and I’m friendly with can write this stuff, all this terrible stuff,” 18-year-old Will Haskell told Business Insider.

Haskell, a senior at Staples High School in the super-affluent town of Westport, Connecticut, is talking about Yik Yak, the anonymous gossip app that "brought Staples to a halt" last Thursday morning.