The first time I ever heard of Snapchat
it was in a positive light. It was an app to send funny face or pictures to
friends and those embarrassingly funny pictures would “self-destruct” within
minutes. The most popular are “selfies”. I use Snapchat on a daily basis; I
send horribly embarrassing ugly selfies of myself to my friends, and my family
not concerned about those ever popping up again. However, I have recently heard
about people using Snapchat for sending dirty picture to others; “sexting”
since the picture will be erased within a certain amount of seconds.
Ann Brenoff
blogged about how “Certainly, it's the perfect tool for sexting: You get to
show off your privates and there's no evidence left for extortion later.”
BUT… Do these pictures really disappear? HOW is it that they just self-destruct
into nothing? Are they saved onto a massive hardrive somewhere? “In recent
months, at least two security loopholes, which would allow recipients to save
Snapchat images or clips for keeps, were discovered and made public” blogged Dominique
Mosbergen.
If it were my guess, I would say there is indeed some sort of a hard drive out there somewhere where all these pictures are saved. After all, I've always been told that once it's out there on the internet, it's out there for good. People need to really think about that and be careful of what they are snapping!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely an interesting read. I myself as a snapchat user havent really though about the ramifications of this. Not to say that I would ever do something like that, considering the fact that a lot of my friends go for the shock affect when sending snap cats, I am quite confident that the app has complete ownership of the images that are sent through it. Just like facebook and other social media sites, the privacy clauses typically in really really tiny writing that anything sent through their applications become the property of the company which created it. This means that you wouldnt want your friend seeing for more than ten seconds, may be seen by the rest of society for a lot longer than that. Great job!
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