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Since snaps disappear seconds after they are opened, users feel comfortable sending spontaneous and personal messages that they would not want ingrained into di

Since snaps disappear seconds after they are opened, users feel comfortable sending spontaneous and personal messages that they would not want ingrained into digital histories. I donno but taking a screenshot and posting it on FB isn't very difficult. Do people really believe the images 'disappear'?

landr0id 14y ago
Seeing that someone took a screenshot will usually deter you from sending more embarrassing photos in the future.
- ed209 14y ago
  If you're expecting something potentially embarrassing, then it's not so hard to be at the ready with a camera to take a photo of the screen.
  - smackfu 14y ago
    Heh, it's hard just because very few people have another camera nowadays.
joshmlewis 14y ago
Yeah they do. It's more of the fact that it alerts the other person when someone does that. If for instance I knew person a's trust in me would be decreased a lot if they knew I tried to save something they didn't want to be saved, then that gives me my own moral I guess gauge as to playing by the rules. If I didn't know the person then obviously the limiting factor my internal gauge might put in is decreased. If a friend trusted me and I let them down and risked a friendship by going around that then the barrier is higher. OF course that doesn't stop me from just being a bad friend, taking something private and making it public either. So there's still risk and trust involved.
- digitalengineer 14y ago
  This App promotes itself with 'temporary photo's'. But they're anything but. Combine teens with 'private' photo's that really are not temporary and basically it's an accident waiting to happen. I think we've all heard our share of jealous ex(boy)friend stories dumping loads of pics when the relation crashed. If people feel save because the images are 'temporary' odd are they'll find out things were not so private. Teens doing teen-things is fine. But the sense of security they think they're getting is false.
  - smackfu 14y ago
    >I think we've all heard our share of jealous ex(boy)friend stories dumping loads of pics when the relation crashed. This app certainly discourages that collecting of pics though. It's not like sexting where they are just sitting in the texting logs. Yes, people can work around the restrictions but the key is they have to work around it.
tammer 14y ago
The key here is intention. While of course it's quite possible for images to be reproduced in one way or another, the fact that they must be reproduced, and not simply 'shared' or 're-*ed,' changes the user's relation to the app. I think this gets to the tone of the article, as communicating this way implies a level of trust and/or intimacy usually reserved for analog methods. Snapchat is brilliant in this regard. I think we're going to see a lot more communication platforms built on limitations rather than sprawling features.
- 001sky 14y ago
  I think we're going to see a lot more communication platforms built on limitations -- This would be an interesting brainstorm.
  - tsunamifury 14y ago
    Almost every single piece of popular social software is built on limitations. In fact, their models are almost all exclusively made up of boundaries that box in a certain measurable behavior. AOL -> Myspace -> Facebook -> Twitter -> Pinterest -> Vine or whatever comes next has always been a dialog of editorializing and limiting communication into models that are smaller and easier for digital communication. The problem with the internet was different that any other communication technology of the last thousand years. Unlike books, phones or even TV, it provided too much access and too vast an audience with boundless communication (i.e. AOL Mass chatrooms) and people felt lost and faceless in the masses. Social media has been an exercise in limitation to solve that problem since its inception.
  - swohns 14y ago
    lets do it! I'll go first: How about a chat program based on sharing websites? Or an email program without a subject line?
    - darkarmani 14y ago
      > Or an email program without a subject line? What about email with only a 140 character subject line? Who would want to write more than that anyway?

landr0id 14y ago

Seeing that someone took a screenshot will usually deter you from sending more embarrassing photos in the future.

ed209 14y ago
If you're expecting something potentially embarrassing, then it's not so hard to be at the ready with a camera to take a photo of the screen.
- smackfu 14y ago
  Heh, it's hard just because very few people have another camera nowadays.

joshmlewis 14y ago

Yeah they do. It's more of the fact that it alerts the other person when someone does that. If for instance I knew person a's trust in me would be decreased a lot if they knew I tried to save something they didn't want to be saved, then that gives me my own moral I guess gauge as to playing by the rules. If I didn't know the person then obviously the limiting factor my internal gauge might put in is decreased. If a friend trusted me and I let them down and risked a friendship by going around that then the barrier is higher. OF course that doesn't stop me from just being a bad friend, taking something private and making it public either. So there's still risk and trust involved.

digitalengineer 14y ago
This App promotes itself with 'temporary photo's'. But they're anything but. Combine teens with 'private' photo's that really are not temporary and basically it's an accident waiting to happen. I think we've all heard our share of jealous ex(boy)friend stories dumping loads of pics when the relation crashed. If people feel save because the images are 'temporary' odd are they'll find out things were not so private. Teens doing teen-things is fine. But the sense of security they think they're getting is false.
- smackfu 14y ago
  >I think we've all heard our share of jealous ex(boy)friend stories dumping loads of pics when the relation crashed. This app certainly discourages that collecting of pics though. It's not like sexting where they are just sitting in the texting logs. Yes, people can work around the restrictions but the key is they have to work around it.

tammer 14y ago

The key here is intention. While of course it's quite possible for images to be reproduced in one way or another, the fact that they must be reproduced, and not simply 'shared' or 're-*ed,' changes the user's relation to the app. I think this gets to the tone of the article, as communicating this way implies a level of trust and/or intimacy usually reserved for analog methods. Snapchat is brilliant in this regard. I think we're going to see a lot more communication platforms built on limitations rather than sprawling features.

001sky 14y ago
I think we're going to see a lot more communication platforms built on limitations -- This would be an interesting brainstorm.
- tsunamifury 14y ago
  Almost every single piece of popular social software is built on limitations. In fact, their models are almost all exclusively made up of boundaries that box in a certain measurable behavior. AOL -> Myspace -> Facebook -> Twitter -> Pinterest -> Vine or whatever comes next has always been a dialog of editorializing and limiting communication into models that are smaller and easier for digital communication. The problem with the internet was different that any other communication technology of the last thousand years. Unlike books, phones or even TV, it provided too much access and too vast an audience with boundless communication (i.e. AOL Mass chatrooms) and people felt lost and faceless in the masses. Social media has been an exercise in limitation to solve that problem since its inception.
- swohns 14y ago
  lets do it! I'll go first: How about a chat program based on sharing websites? Or an email program without a subject line?
  - darkarmani 14y ago
    > Or an email program without a subject line? What about email with only a 140 character subject line? Who would want to write more than that anyway?