Advantages And Disadvantages Of Snapchat

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Ring, ring, ring, hello? ‘Hey friend,’ ‘what are you doing,’ ‘where you at,’ ‘who’s with you,’ ‘where are you going,’ questions asked when calling someone, but now, it’s easier to show that person all of those questions by this new app known as snapchat. Snapchat is a revolutionized social media that allows interaction of audience by its transformation of the selfie. Because of its mobile app usage and accessibility of video and picture message, it engages individuals to communicate inversely. A little white no face ghost on a yellow background, some in the face of an emoji, and when set up an account the face of you. With its ability to record, take pictures in 10 seconds or less, known as a snap, this app’s screen display easy by the features …show more content…

Which in that case could be good for the prevention of exposing and immature videos. The downside is that every person as a friend gets to see it one time for that one in a life time shot of you. It’s been understood the app is better when used with the iPhone, users complain about update not available to android users of snapchat. The filters are better on iPhone, knowing that more than 86% of users ages 13-34 are smartphone consumer. The app takes location, and identity of who you are, the person’s phone number to connect contacts in your phone, also include microphone for hearing, visual talk and text, and connects to Wi-Fi for easier convenience. Adding friends from other social media a way so others can follow to look at individuals’ snaps, and a way to commercial snapchat, and so other non-users can download. From there and the beginning, Snapchat’s name was not always ‘Snapchat,’ that’s just a catchy name for the app, giving the downloader idea of what it is, but in the begging while creating snapchat, Spiegel named the project Picaboo, which was his name he went by in the project design class. The iconic white ghost on the yellow background is named, Ghostface Chillah, where Spiegel came up with from the name from a band he …show more content…

Unrevealed, many like Google and Facebook have tried to buy Snapchat for millions but have been turned down. Now in their twenties Evan and Bobby have come about with this new billion dollar idea where, being that these two didn’t scrap for fame and fortune, but still viewers thought of snapchat as an offence that it was only for the wealthy to show everyone their riches. Spiegel explained to the audience that it was only a page for entertainment purposes only and to inspire other young people to go out and achieve what they want to achieve in life, giving an easy way to show everyone. Other than that, today snapchat is only four years old from the intentions of just a college class project. Spiegel, who was pursuing a degree for project design as a freshman in college, and Bobby, who was a junior working on his B.S. in Mathematical and Computational Science, both at Stanford University, had to design a project in class titled, ‘Future Freshman,’ to create a site that would forever improve the way high school students apply themselves to college. By creating snapchat it failed to do what was required of the project but then started to increase attention and from then on Spiegel and Bobby found out how well they worked

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