How Did Snapchat Change The World

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This quickly growing company has changed the world. It taken attention of one of the great powers in social media which are companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. It might even be on its journey to be the most used in given time. Snapchat is an application on the phone that is primarily used to message through images and also through multimedia. The social media tool was created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown, which were actually previous students from Stanford university and cultivated by Snap Inc. This social media tool was is being used by hundreds of millions of people multiple times daily. People use this app in order to communicate through either pictures or short videos to be put in simple terms. It has started …show more content…

In a sense the app has allowed for users to act accordingly to the everyday behavior. It has became very popular amongst teenagers mainly. This social media app was able to take a different stance in communicating with people, instead of having them post pictures or comments digitally which will remain forever for everyone to see, they make it temporary. Snapchat managed to make it so that the people can send messages or short videos that would be deleted shortly after watching them, never to be seen again. It’s changed how the every social media works, rather than letting something simply as a post to drag you down forever. Normally over a social media like Facebook if a picture would be posted, the person will make sure to look the best they can otherwise, they would judged and hated on depending on what it was, as oppose to Snapchat where anything posted is deleted within the 24 hours you originally posted. Even if a message was sent, it would be deleted after being shown to the receiver. This allows for the people who are sending picture messages to be more …show more content…

It was mainly to be used by people who like things that happen the second they see it which is the best part about it. Not only people send videos or photos of what's happening at the moment, people are able to see the news whenever they are trying to kill time. It's a more convenient way to take in what's going on worldwide, whether it be with celebrities, companies, or natural disasters. Which is also a good thing since majority of young people won’t pick up a newspaper and be connected to what's going on, it's a more efficient way for the main group which are teens to pick up the info.
Snapchat might be able to slightly change stuff in the future. The way Snapchat is already, with the short videos, the quick pictures and ability to send to different people at the same time while post as your story is great. The idea that Spiegel created will continue to grow in the company in ways that will be slightly difficult to predict. Although one thing that may be of an issue is if you have your smaller sibling and you wanted to show something explicit or something you don't want them to do, you should be able to prohibit certain people to watch a specific

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