Ya, but to me, that is exactly the perspective taken by snapchat. It allows you to capture moments you want to convey to people in a throwaway sense, but frees

Ya, but to me, that is exactly the perspective taken by snapchat. It allows you to capture moments you want to convey to people in a throwaway sense, but frees you from keeping them around mucking up your digital environment for eternity. It allows you to express yourself via images in a fundamentally different way. To simply photograph/record the thing happening in front of you because it was funny or amusing for a second, but not have to ask yourself the question "is this worth preserving forever?". It turns a snap into the equivalent of throwaway, idle verbal conversation. Texts/instagram are the written letters of the digital age. Careful, considered (and if not, people think you're an idiot and look down on you). Snaps are in-person chatter. They don't have to be super meaningful or well composed, just the digital equivalent of "how about this weather we're having".