Snapchat Informative Speech

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You and your friend are at a restaurant and your friend makes a mess with her drink. Your immediate reaction is to take a picture or video and put it on your story or send it to your friends on snapchat. Or maybe actually help them clean up the mess. Snapchat is a social media app that lets the users send pictures and videos to other users for 0-10 seconds and then the image disappears. It also has a feature called your “story” where all the other users that you are friends with can view the picture an unlimited amount of time for 24 hours and then the image/video disappears. Not only is it used as communication, but also to capture moments, share news, and even now, to sell property. From a small little app, snapchat has grown to become something …show more content…

Bobby Murphy, Evan Spiegel, and Reggie Brown released their idea in July of 2011 as a iOS app called Picaboo.. Reggie Brown realized that there could be a lot of potential in this app and wanted 30 percent equity and his name on the technology patent. The two other founders didn’t agree with that because Reggie didn’t do much in the process. So, they just kicked him out from the company. A month later, Evan and Bobby changed the name to Snapchat. It didn’t take long for the app to become popular and to become noticed by big investor names such as Lightspeed Ventures (Colao). In March of 2012 Lightspeed invested $485,000 into Snapchat. In May, Snapchat was processing about 25 pictures per second. By October of that same year snapchat processed about 231 pictures per second (Gallagher). By Winter of 2012, Snapchat was brought to Android and the popularity grew even more. The popularity grew so much that by June of 2013 Snapchat was worth $800 million. One of the biggest add-ons to snapchat occurred in Fall of 2013: Snapchat stories. Teenagers loved this and it made snapchat even bigger. What really helped make snapchat so popular was the help of teenagers. Snapchat became really popular for that generation because it was the one form of social media that parents hadn’t started to take over. Facebook was once popular for the teen …show more content…

There are so many different things that Snapchat thinks about adding or getting rid of. Also just the potential of what snapchat can do shall change in the future. One feature that Snapchat plans on adding is that you will be able to view “stories” for events in the area that you are located in. Another feature that snapchat is considering the 360-degree video. This is when someone can view a live video from wherever and see it from 360 degrees. Another thing that Snapchat is considering is Augmented Reality. This is when someone captures an image and someone is then able to see it to where it looks 3D. One last thing that Snapchat is considering is being able to make friend groups. This is somewhat like what you can do with group messages. This allows the user to put a group of friends together in one section with a certain label. Besides being an app just to send pictures back and forth to one another, Snapchat possesses other interesting ideas. Something new that Snapchat is really considering is adding picture processing. This would be when you take a picture of a couch, Snapchat would then process it and sink it to Amazon and Amazon would then show relatable items that are available to buy. Basically you can buy something through taking a picture (Rehwald). Businesses also use snapchat to advertise new products they have. Businesses can have customers become friends with them on snapchat and then the business can post

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