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comment by glitchinthematrix
glitchinthematrix  ·  3779 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Understanding Snapchat: A Journey That Left Me Feeling Out of Touch

I'm noticing a lot of people who haven't used SnapChat themselves. SC is popular in younger demographics because it offers a few things: Privacy: the images are "deleted", and you can chose how long someone views the image. SnapChat also offers a sort of anonymity. Kids now who have smartphones and whatnot value privacy. They don't want their parents snooping in on what they're doing online. Although I am not really sure the images are entirely deleted. I'd like to know how they manage that.





_refugee_  ·  3779 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You also get to know when someone looks at your message. shrug From time to time I find this useful.

Snapchat claims that the images are purged from their servers after they have been seen. This has come up with law enforcement, I saw an article about it. Right now Snapchat claims that the only images it can deliver to law enforcement, should they be requested, would have to be unopened.

glitchinthematrix  ·  3778 days ago  ·  link  ·  

ok, that's interesting now. What if you get a message and it wasn't opened. Say it originated from a known criminal. Postulate further it was sent to a recipient that was intending to open the message. Authorities talk to Snapchat and SC says the message has not been opened and therefore subject to search. If the recipient never opened the message, how can they be implicated?

_refugee_  ·  3777 days ago  ·  link  ·  

THis is actually a really interesting question.