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Snapchat needs to be valued not as a social network, maybe as a amateur porn company. I have lots of friends who use Snapchat (mostly the teen to college demog

by dsl 13y ago

Snapchat needs to be valued not as a social network, maybe as a amateur porn company. I have lots of friends who use Snapchat (mostly the teen to college demographic), and they all use it for photos that they don't want other people to ever see. They use iMessage or Whatsapp for everything normal. The user generated content literally disappears in 10 seconds, and you are left with... nothing.

nqureshi 13y ago
As I understand it, your argument is: 1. Some friends I know use Snapchat for 'photos they don't want other people to see'. 2. Therefore, most people use Snapchat to send porn. 3. Therefore, Snapchat should be valued as an amateur porn company. Do you really believe that's a valid argument? And that all of the 350m+ photos sent on Snapchat every day are porn?
- dsl 13y ago
  Yes. No.
jaynos 13y ago
Ctrl+PrintScreen or WindowsKey+PrintScreen (if you want to be fancy).
- tanzam75 13y ago
  > Ctrl+PrintScreen or WindowsKey+PrintScreen (if you want to be fancy). You actually don't need the Ctrl key. Just PrintScreen will also do the same thing. WindowsKey + PrintScreen is a nice idea. Problem is, I usually do Alt + PrintScreen. Adding the Windows key doesn't do anything in that case.
- renata 13y ago
  SnapChat does notify the sending user if you take a screenshot in any conventional fashion.
  - jaynos 13y ago
    Thanks for letting me know. I've never used the service, but it's good to know that they thought of that.
objclxt 13y ago
> The user generated content literally disappears in 10 seconds, and you are left with... nothing It doesn't disappear, and whilst it might disappear off their servers I can guarantee that won't be the case in the future. At some point a court is going to force SnapChat to preserve a user's photos on their systems, probably someone under a wiretap or surveillance. I wouldn't be totally surprised if this hadn't happened already.

by dsl 13y ago

nqureshi 13y ago

As I understand it, your argument is: 1. Some friends I know use Snapchat for 'photos they don't want other people to see'. 2. Therefore, most people use Snapchat to send porn. 3. Therefore, Snapchat should be valued as an amateur porn company. Do you really believe that's a valid argument? And that all of the 350m+ photos sent on Snapchat every day are porn?

dsl 13y ago
Yes. No.

jaynos 13y ago

Ctrl+PrintScreen or WindowsKey+PrintScreen (if you want to be fancy).

tanzam75 13y ago
> Ctrl+PrintScreen or WindowsKey+PrintScreen (if you want to be fancy). You actually don't need the Ctrl key. Just PrintScreen will also do the same thing. WindowsKey + PrintScreen is a nice idea. Problem is, I usually do Alt + PrintScreen. Adding the Windows key doesn't do anything in that case.
renata 13y ago
SnapChat does notify the sending user if you take a screenshot in any conventional fashion.
- jaynos 13y ago
  Thanks for letting me know. I've never used the service, but it's good to know that they thought of that.

objclxt 13y ago

> The user generated content literally disappears in 10 seconds, and you are left with... nothing It doesn't disappear, and whilst it might disappear off their servers I can guarantee that won't be the case in the future. At some point a court is going to force SnapChat to preserve a user's photos on their systems, probably someone under a wiretap or surveillance. I wouldn't be totally surprised if this hadn't happened already.