The sender can choose how long the message will be visible - up to 10 seconds - before it self-destructs.įacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly was part of the team that coded the Poke app, currently available only on Apple’s iOS system, in only a couple of weeks. But instead of siphoning users from Shapchat, Facebook’s move appears instead to have launched the upstart app to new heights.īoth apps let users send images or short videos and messages via their smartphones. Not to be outdone, Facebook last month actually launched a virtually identical social app called Facebook Poke, a mobile re-imagining of one of the site’s earliest, and ultimately most ridiculed, features. In other words, they’re chatting with Snapchat precisely because it’s not like chatting with Facebook.” “Like most people born before the 1990s, I’m not a Snapchat user, and I’ve long assumed the worst about the app - that combining cameras young people and secret, self-destructing messages could only mean trouble,” wrote Slate’s Farhad Manjoo last week.īut increasingly, he writes, it appears possible that “teenagers are more likely using the app to safely explore the sort of silly, unguarded, and sometimes unwise ideas that have always occupied the teenage brain … in a manner that won’t haunt them forever. In an age when young people are constantly being warned not to post inappropriate things online, Snapchat offers a degree of freedom by letting users share unfiltered thoughts or images without much fear of reprisal. Not bad for a mobile tool which, rightly or wrongly, is often cited for one very specific ability - the “sexting” of naughty images to other users. Some bloggers have called it the “next Instagram.” In a little over a year since it was released by a Stanford student and his recently graduated business partner, Snapchat has has quietly amassed millions of users and now claims to process more than 30 million messages a day.
That’s right - they vanish forever in the time it takes you to read a tweet. Snapchat is a mobile app which lets users share images or videos that disappear after a few seconds. But if there are teenagers or 20-somethings in your life, it’s a safe bet that they have. (CNN) - You may not have heard of Snapchat.
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