Snapchat Privacy

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Over 100 million people use snapchat daily, it has changed the market by creating a view that the internet is not forever and has taken the world by change for the better. Snapchat is a social media app created by Evan Spiegal that allows you to communicate through short disappearing messages, photos, or videos. Either to a select friend or to everyone on your story. “Once you load the app and login, you can take a photo, edit it, add a caption or other “doodles.” Then you select the friends to send the photo to and set a timer from 1 to 10 seconds,”(Parker). This is formally the way to snapchat other people. There is also a feature called discover where you can find all the news you need. Snapchat was created in September 2011, and has taken …show more content…

This app created by CEO Evan Spiegel has taken off, as Ian Kar said “By 2020, the research service says, 85 million Americans could be using it.” One of the main reasons why Snapchat is gaining popularity is its privacy. Snapchat is different from any other social media app. As stated by Lauren Keating “Between its ever-changing filters, 24- hour stories and disappearing videos, Snapchat continues to be the king of social media apps, leaving Instagram to fall behind.” These precautions tap into a new need for people, privacy. Other apps like Facebook do not do this. Everything you post on Facebook can be traced back to you, and many companies look at this. Some people like Wayne Parker say “... If a receiver knows that a message is coming, he or she could take a photo of the screen with another phone or digital camera and the sender would never know that their supposedly “evaporating” photo would be alive and well on someone else's device.” Although this is very true, there is nothing you could do to stop this from happening. Snapchat does everything they can that is possible to keep their app private. If somebody takes a screenshot of the photo you send the sender is informed instantly when they screenshot it, which is very helpful. Another reason why Snapchat is so popular is its special features. Snapchat has many new features that continue to draw people in. To start things off are Snapchat’s friend emojis. This friend emoji is an emoji that shows up next to their friend’s name, based on their interactions with each other. “Each emoji you see means something about your friendship on Snapchat,” (Moreau). If you continue to send messages back and forth the emoji will change over time, but if you stop sending messages you will lose these emojis. Currently there are 6 different emojis with different meanings. You can change these emojis in the settings at any time. Another feature that is popular on snapchat is the

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