Persuasive Essay On Snapchat

Snapchat, the app that swiftly took over the nation. If one does not have it then surely they have heard of it. Starting up in 2011 Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown launched a truly brilliant social media app but, with cynical intentions. These three college students came together and formed an idea of an app that would allow them and others to carelessly send pictures that disappeared. It would be a photo sharing app that allowed the sender to choose how many seconds the receiver would be able to view specific content for. This eliminated the threat of the other person saving it on their device and using it at a later date fro blackmail. This also prevented having more then the desired person from view the personal content. Originally …show more content…
With everything somehow digitally stored on the device it is used on how is it possible that so many pictures can just go away, certainly they have to be deep in a file somewhere on the hard drive. This is something many don’t contemplate before carelessly sending risky things to friends. One educated in a technological field could one day find a way to get into the file with all the snapped content and it could be used to ruin someone’s future in many ways. Such as sending it into a boss or posting it on the web for the world to see and prejudge how they please. On the contrary this laid back picture oriented culture takes away the pressures of formal conversation and eliminates the stress of answering texts or phone calls to stay connected with friends. This app enables people to let loosed and send embarrassing funny things to friends allowing them to socially interact with each other without leaving the couch. Although texting does somewhat do the same thing the difference is that face visuals are involved rather then just staring at a plain screen with words on it, almost making it more personal. The MyStory feature is somewhat like news feed on facebook but does not require any interactions such as “liking” or “commenting”. Meaning one can know what all their friends are doing simply by watching all of the stories their friends have posted. Of course …show more content…
But lately it seems like the cons of this app are heavily outweighed by the positive aspects. It surely does not seem like this specific form of social media will be going away anytime soon, it has found its home in the culture of everyday life for more then half of Americans. Without it social media would still feel like it had something