Snapchat: A Big Scam, By Krisin Burnham

Snapchat is a very popular app used to send temporary messages and pictures that disappear after a certain time. Snapchat became so popular because people like to use it to talk to one another. There are many positive and negative effects snapchat has on society. Some positive effects Snapchat has on society is that it can strengthen relationships, and help you to keep in touch with people you are close to. Some negative effects of Snapchat are that it can ruin relationships, cause tension between people, and have real life effects on your opportunities. These effects vary from how we function socially to some very real consequences. I found a scholarly article from Pennsylvania State University titled, “Snapchat with real life

Privacy: National Security vs. The Fourth Amendment Privacy! It’s an elementary principle we all value and fight to protect. However, with technological trends, such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat, our lives have now become accessible to all. These social media platforms have become part of our daily lives, from sharing personal information or activities to communal networking. The fascination to be trendy and acquire followers, is compromising our privacy principles and places us at significant risk. It’s remarkably easy to pretend that we control what personal information we share, however, realistically we leave technological trails every day we login to these apps, or browse the internet. For the most part, it seems that

A recent emphasis has been placed on the new version of Snapchat, a social media network that allows people to communicate by sending a ten-second picture or video to any of your friends that you have added to your account. According to this application’s new terms of services, Snapchat now has the right to use “any and all account-holders names, likeness, and voices in any and all media and distribution channels for any reason,” and may “review, screen, or delete any ones content they have sent or received through the application. Most people, especially teenagers who commonly use social media, do not pay attention to these terms and services and are granting rights to websites to basically track their

“Mom please, please, please can I have Snapchat!?!” Asked Harley. She was 14 and was in 8th grade at Aspen middle school. She was pretty much the only person in her grade that didn't have any sort of social media. She looked at her mom with her big blue puppy eyes. “For the 10th time today no Harley!” Said her mom in frustration.

Brian and Brandy, I have a collection of graphics and Video for the LET Opening in my folder in the Social Media Folder.

Narratio: As I am sure you’ve all guessed by now, today, I am here to discuss the one issue that plagues our world more than any other: Snapchat. Snapchat is, as I’m sure most of you know, a picture-sharing social media platform. What sets it apart is that pictures and videos, known collectively as “Snaps,” disappear after a time you choose, maybe 3 seconds, and can never be viewed again. Because of this, Snapchat is the app of millennials, the app of our generation, but it has a dark side.

When I first heard about the Amazon Echo, I thought why in the world would anyone need this? Then the conspiracy theorist side of me quickly followed with the thought that its purpose is government surveillance. Now months after its release and in light of a new WikiLeaks scandal it seems I am not the only one who is convinced. Even videos have gone viral asking Echo’s voice Alexa if she works for the C.I.A., with no response. Even begs the question of whether Snapchat is used purely for face mapping its users to collect images for facial recognition.

It must be very scary to know you are involved in the works of a hacker, and it must be even scarier knowing that a hacker was able to steal your personal information to banks, emails, and even your social security number. Phishing is a very real and dangerous thing. I truly feel sorry for the employees and former employees of Snapchat, but this isn’t even the first time the company has been compromised. In 2014, Snapchat leaked more than 200,000 photos after a third party app which was used to save people’s pictures was

Everyone happens to have at least one party animal as a friend on snapchat. This snap chatter is always out throughout the weekdays having the time of their lives and still somehow manages to wake up early for school or work. The captions for their pictures or videos are usually; ‘we out here’, ‘come through’, and of course ‘lit’. Their snapchat stories are extremely wild, they include the famous game; beer pong. This party animal has no curfew; they usually go home at 5 in the morning and make sure to upload a snap to their story captioning it; “home”. It is quite interesting having these types of people on snapchat but after viewing so much repetition within their story it tends to become

Sexting Poltash (2013) clarified that personal pictures have long been associated with social media. Yet too often, photos are seized and used inappropriately, creating privacy concerns. Snaps that self-destruct give users, especially teenagers, a sense of potentially false security that repercussions linked to

Social networking sites are increasingly becoming one of the internet most utilized activities. However, how often does one think that their Facebook site is hazardous to their identity. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, an estimated 11.7 million Americans were victims of identity theft in 2010 (U.S. Dept. of Justice). Identity theft is defined as a crime where someone illegally acquires and utilizes another person’s vital information to deceive for personal gain. That same year, the Federal Trade Commission reported that identity theft crimes cost businesses and individuals an estimated $53 billion (Federal Trade Commission). Most Americans are familiar with identity theft but aren’t well-informed about the influence it has on

on keeping a record of events for the user but Snapchat does not. It almost appears as if Snapchat is rebelling against the idea of permanence. Snapchat aims to apply through technological means the temporal time-bound paradigm that characterizes oral cultures (Soffer, 2016). An image becomes a photograph, in part, by having borders. The frame makes the photo. Tellingly, a Snapchat usually exists unframed, full-screen, more moment than an art object. Less than sharing experience-trophies and hoping communication happens around them, an ephemeral network leaves the art objects to fade in favor of focusing on the moments, the experience, the communication; more social than media, more social than network. (Jurgenson, 2014). The Snapchat users like the idea of a safe place where they can control what is shared with the world. Experts in the field of communication state that the ephemeral messaging compels users to do more with less, often generating a better brand. Snapchat’s popularity has helped spur other private messaging apps but none are as successful as Snapchat. The real time communication protocol is what Snapchat is all about. Snapchat keeps people connected without it being public. Some individuals seek the privacy afforded by Snapchat. Snapchat allows the viewer to see the actual face expressions, which allows for better understanding. Snapchat is very much like a conversation taking place, where you can see the person but you can’t go back or rewind

Snapchat is an application used to send pictures for a short amount of time to anyone on the list of friends created by the user. The pictures are to be private and not shared, but other applications’ only purpose is to save snap chats. A third-party company, called snap save, allows people to save any photo sent while the sender is completely in the dark. All the information put out through the servers and hosts can be potentially against you. For example, in mid-October of 2014, many pictures sent were leaked to the internet because of an error in a third party’s database. Roughly, 100,000 pictures were leaked; of these 100,000, many were explicit. Since snapchat only

In the beginning of October, reality star Kim Kardashian was held hostage in her Paris hotel room and robbed of most of her jewelry and valuables. Prior to the horrible incident, she posted many different things on social media that the robbers probably used to their advantage. On Snapchat, she flashed her multi-million dollar jewelry on the camera, exposed to millions of her followers. Right before the robbery happened, viewers were aware that she was alone in her hotel room when she posted a video of her congratulating her younger brother through iPhone Facetime. According to CNN, the police has suggested that Kardashian’s prolific social posting about her life and wealth may have attracted the robbers in the multi-million dollar heist. Even though there are many other possibilities as to why the robbery occurred, it is still a valid example of why you should be more reserved on what you post on your social media platforms. Since the popularity of having multiple social media accounts has increased, it is crucial that we are more aware of what we post on social media. Since people are widely using social networks to display a lot of their personal information and give access to potential bullies, future jobs/colleges, or even potential criminals, precautions and social awareness as well as media moderation should be constructed so we can take away the harmful stigmas surrounding its use.

Thirdly, technology presents dangers to online security. Nowadays, the threat of cyberattacks exists in a very real way. Since technology dominates culture, hackers can possibly access virtually everyone’s personal information. Over four billion people had their identities stolen last year according to the Business Insider (Cole). In addition, sixty-four percent of Americans have experienced some form of data-theft, according to the Pew Research Center (Olmstead and Smith). Many major companies, such as Yahoo and Target, have fallen prey to hackers. While smartphones have made it much easier to accomplish tasks on the go, many people do not take adequate steps to best ensure security. According to a survey by