Snapchat

 Snapchat is the new social media sensation that has allowed young adults to take a picture or a video with a "free" feeling. Snapchat is unique in a way because the picture or video you send can only be viewed for a certain amount of time. The sender chooses how long the receiver can look that the picture or video. The sender has between ten seconds and down to one second. After that time is up the picture or video disappears forever. It allows people to send funny things to their friends without having to get to technical about it. It is very easy to use and many find it fun to mess around with.
More than 20 million "snaps" are sent each day, primarily by teens, according to a report from investment firm Piper Jaffrey. Many use this more then Facebook and twitter now. Although the length of viewing might not be as long as Facebook or twitter, the amount of snapchats taken a day is on the rise and is moving fast. 






There is a lot of criticism going around about snap chat because some people use it for "sexting" or pictures that many people don't want an audience to see. The problem is because people can "screenshot" these snapchats people send. There is not much the snapchat company can do about screenshotting because you can turn that off via app. So what the snapchat team has done to the app is allow the sender to see if the receiver has done a "screenshot". Now there is not much the sender can do when it is taken but the responsibility is in the senders hands. You pick you send you pictures and videos to and all of them are through your contact list, so people should take responsibility if there is trouble involved with send pictures through snapchat.


It is great and easy way to keep in touch with your friends. You can draw on the pictures and you can also put a little caption in to make it more personal. The snapchat app is gaining more and
more popularity throughout the world and if you want a fun way to show off your life without having millions of people having access to it, download snapchat.