It is mostly used by younger people, such as high school students or college/university students. Snapchat’s defining feature is that the majority of its content deletes itself after being viewed, and/or after a relatively short amount of time. Snapchat is a social messaging app for mobile devices that allows the exchange of photos or videos (“snaps”), as well as text messages (“chats”). That’s where they came up with the idea for Snapchat. They wanted to create a social media environment where information wasn’t permanent, and where people had the freedom to be a little crazy, spontaneous, imperfect, and above all… honest. They were tired of seeing people stressing out over trying to craft the perfect image of themselves on social media, and getting burned for sharing potentially unflattering content in the heat of the moment. ![]() This mattered to the Stanford University students who made Snapchat, though. It didn’t matter that those things were likely only meant for their friends in the spur of the moment the paper trail on their social media account came back to haunt them.safe Then, they got fired, disciplined, or turned down from a job because they had posted something like an angry, offensive rant, or photos of themselves getting drunk or doing other inappropriate things at a party. You may have heard some of the horror stories of teens and young adults adding their boss, teacher, or prospective employer as a friend on social media. This has been a particularly prevalent problem among younger people. Usually, this happens when they become friends with you on a social network, and out of curiosity end up looking through your content history, and finding something that they feel is unbecoming of you. One of the risks of using social media is that someone connected to you ends up seeing something that they weren’t meant to see.
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