What Is Snapchat's Self-Destructing Messages?

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Despite the increasing size of the human population, modern humans are even more inclined to try to keep in touch with others, and forge relationships that would be impossible in previous eras. Because of this, social networking sites and applications have been on the rise as people strive to maintain relationships with those close to them. It comes as no surprise then that Snapchat has been one such application that has seen tremendous success in attracting consumers. Snapchat allows people to send pictures to each to each other that can have captions, and after a certain period of time, the pictures vanish from the receiver’s phone. The application was the brainchild of developer Evan Spiegel, an idea originally thought to be terrible by …show more content…
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