Extra Credit Blog: Snapchat

So if you are big into texting and share a lot of your adventures, experiences and your awesome moments with your friends then perhaps you have heard of snap chat. But if you haven't yet, well lets just say you might be missing out a bit. Snapchat is an app that allows friends to share pictures between themselves, pictures that tell stories of who they are, trips they've been on and a whole lot more. It's a "magical" app if you want to put it that way. Why magical? well unlike sending a picture message to a friend, romantic partner, classmate etc. which they can have on their phone forever if they chose to without you knowing, this app allows the picture to be shown only for 10 seconds then it disappears forever. Literally just vanishes and cannot be seen again. I find this technology incredibly amazing. New York Magazine will comment on this app saying "the message vanishes, like a communiqué in ‘Mission: Impossible" USA Today College
This is a prime example of mobile technology and the article on "Social Implications of Mobile Telephony:
The Rise of Personal Communication Society" by Scott W. Campbell and Yong Jin Park. It takes mobile communication and social media to a new and exciting level while providing in many ways a better means of privacy. This app is very simple to use which gives the user more time to have fun and play with the app instead of trying to figure out how it works like most other apps. In a way one can say it is also an app for "Sexting" perhaps due to its high level of privacy which gives romantic partners a chance to share things with one another in a more safer way. I like this app and if you haven't tried it out yet, check it out.