Can You Picture This?
by Paige Senk and Andrew Valentin
Aren’t photographs usually taken to make a moment in time last forever? A popular new smartphone app named ‘Snapchat’ shows that this is not always true.
This app is the newest way for people to communicate with one another. It allows users to take photos and add some optional drawings or text on them. Then, they can choose the number of seconds they want their pictures to show up on their receivers’ screens. When the pictures are sent to the receivers, the pictures disappear from their screens after a selected amount of time has gone by. The users are then unable to save or reopen the image.
Snapchat is commonly used to send silly faces between friends and this usage takes out the risk of the photos being shared around.Some have found the app to be an addicting contest between friends to “out-unattractive” one another. “I like showing off how funny I can be with these pictures and knowing they will never come back to haunt me,” said senior Michael Fink.
If people simply text messaged photos of themselves to their friends, they would never really know where it would end up. Snapchat made it possible that the photo will never be in the hands of another person. “With Snapchat, I don’t have to worry about not-so-flattering pictures of myself that I send. After just a few seconds of pure ridiculousness, those pictures are never to be seen again,” said senior Cressa Vidad.
One could call Snapchat the polar opposite of other popular smartphone apps like Instagram, where people add pretty effects to enhance the photo.
The main focus of those apps is however vanity, which is not what Snapchat is about at all. “Whenever I get a notification from Snapchat, I get so excited to see what kind of whacky pictures and funny faces will be revealed in those short seconds. It is extremely common to find me gasping for breath, in tears, laughing from practically any Snapchat I get from my friends,” said senior Justin Rezin.
Snapchat has just recently become one of the most popular apps. Now, approximately fifteen million snaps are sent everyday. But with more and more people using it, this number will surely increase. Snapchat is an interesting take on social networking, and it’ll be fun to see the path it takes in the future.
Aren’t photographs usually taken to make a moment in time last forever? A popular new smartphone app named ‘Snapchat’ shows that this is not always true.
This app is the newest way for people to communicate with one another. It allows users to take photos and add some optional drawings or text on them. Then, they can choose the number of seconds they want their pictures to show up on their receivers’ screens. When the pictures are sent to the receivers, the pictures disappear from their screens after a selected amount of time has gone by. The users are then unable to save or reopen the image.
Snapchat is commonly used to send silly faces between friends and this usage takes out the risk of the photos being shared around.Some have found the app to be an addicting contest between friends to “out-unattractive” one another. “I like showing off how funny I can be with these pictures and knowing they will never come back to haunt me,” said senior Michael Fink.
If people simply text messaged photos of themselves to their friends, they would never really know where it would end up. Snapchat made it possible that the photo will never be in the hands of another person. “With Snapchat, I don’t have to worry about not-so-flattering pictures of myself that I send. After just a few seconds of pure ridiculousness, those pictures are never to be seen again,” said senior Cressa Vidad.
One could call Snapchat the polar opposite of other popular smartphone apps like Instagram, where people add pretty effects to enhance the photo.
The main focus of those apps is however vanity, which is not what Snapchat is about at all. “Whenever I get a notification from Snapchat, I get so excited to see what kind of whacky pictures and funny faces will be revealed in those short seconds. It is extremely common to find me gasping for breath, in tears, laughing from practically any Snapchat I get from my friends,” said senior Justin Rezin.
Snapchat has just recently become one of the most popular apps. Now, approximately fifteen million snaps are sent everyday. But with more and more people using it, this number will surely increase. Snapchat is an interesting take on social networking, and it’ll be fun to see the path it takes in the future.