I. Introduction and Background
Social media outlets like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have taken over the world and have created a window for people from all over to get a peek, if you let them, into your life. With the 2010 release of Instagram, most of social media consisted of posting pictures and videos of you and your personal thoughts and interest for the public and one’s followers to see and like. With Instagram doing so well, there was little room for any other outlet, until the 2011 release of Snapchat. Snapchat is fun messaging app that allows one to send personalized videos and pictures; of which self deletes after the receiver views it. It also features a story mode in which the user can upload videos and pictures for all their friends to see, which self deletes after 24 hours. Snapchat finds its’ niche in the media world, for giving its users the freedom of really having a photo or message capture who they are with doodles, filter/lens over top, and a vas variety of personalized stickers.
This app has taken showing one’s life on the Internet to a new level. A level my participant D has taken full advantage of. D is my long time friend from high school, who I’ve known and confided in for almost eight years. When assigned this …show more content…
D’s comical self- inspired caricature sticker appears frequently in snaps (captured videos or photos from Snapchat), giving a dramatic cartoon effect to his viewers while his music ties the viewer into the scene that is taking place and allowing them to really feel apart of D’s life. Though the snaps of life’s hard and real work like maintaining two jobs as a seasonal tax preparer and big rig washer and being a senior at UCLA, D does find it hard when his followers are at times over shadowed by the more fun aspects of his Snapchat videos, as told from our
Social media outlets like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have taken over the world and have created a window for people from all over to get a peek, if you let them, into your life. With the 2010 release of Instagram, most of social media consisted of posting pictures and videos of you and your personal thoughts and interest for the public and one’s followers to see and like. With Instagram doing so well, there was little room for any other outlet, until the 2011 release of Snapchat. Snapchat is fun messaging app that allows one to send personalized videos and pictures; of which self deletes after the receiver views it. It also features a story mode in which the user can upload videos and pictures for all their friends to see, which self deletes after 24 hours. Snapchat finds its’ niche in the media world, for giving its users the freedom of really having a photo or message capture who they are with doodles, filter/lens over top, and a vas variety of personalized stickers.
This app has taken showing one’s life on the Internet to a new level. A level my participant D has taken full advantage of. D is my long time friend from high school, who I’ve known and confided in for almost eight years. When assigned this …show more content…
D’s comical self- inspired caricature sticker appears frequently in snaps (captured videos or photos from Snapchat), giving a dramatic cartoon effect to his viewers while his music ties the viewer into the scene that is taking place and allowing them to really feel apart of D’s life. Though the snaps of life’s hard and real work like maintaining two jobs as a seasonal tax preparer and big rig washer and being a senior at UCLA, D does find it hard when his followers are at times over shadowed by the more fun aspects of his Snapchat videos, as told from our