Just curious, are you British? I took a quick perusal at your profile and your word choice indicates this might be such, but I wanted to ask.

The reason is because I'm American and MSN was never popular here, not in the way you describe. I had some British and Irish friends at some point and they all had MSN email addresses and I guess used the other functions you describe. I had no idea that you could use MSN in that way, in fact. For chatting online, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) was always the thing back "in my day" i.e., the early '00s.

What is a DP? Otherwise I agree with your assessment about Snapchat and the deletion of photos. Snapchat allows you to be ugly and it doesn't matter. My friends and I send pictures of ourselves making the fattest/ugliest faces. We send pictures of ourselves when we're on the toilet. It's inappropriate - or it would be if it were permanent - but it's funny. And because Snapchat deletes the images, it's not damaging.

Facebook photos are now where you put the highlights of yourself to show off. Snapchat is where you can fuck around with friends.

I agree, 100%. And then some.