Chapter 9, Problem 1OC

Program Plan Intro

Snapchat:

• An application which is meant to share the photos, video recorded drawings and text with the list of recipients the user wishes to share.
• The photos or videos that are shared are called as “snaps”.
• The snap that is shared will be available to its users for a specific amount of time and will disappear from the recipients’ device and as well as from the snap chat’s server.

Explanation of Solution

Advantages of snapchat:

• It provides opportunity to interact with the peoples whom we had missed long back ago.
• The snaps will disappear after a particular duration and will have good privacy setting.
• It does not allow snap being screenshot by others.
• Provides filter to the snaps that are posted.
• The risk of hacking the server is low.

Example:

The snap that are shared by the user can benefit in the way that the user is currently participating in the event, the user can share his experience among the dedicated users that the user of snapchat wishes. This could be a way where an excitement of single person is being shared among their friends.

Disadvantage of snapchat:

• Any kind of irrelevant images shared can impact the peoples who watches it until it disappears.
• It could attract more number of youngsters into it which will be a distraction for them; there is possibility of people being over addicted.
• There is quite belief that the snap that are shared gets disappeared after a particular duration but the data that are shared may be available at its servers in the form of temp files or either at their backups.

Example:

Any kind of promotion or advertisement that is made in the form of image gets disappeared after a particular moment, there will be a necessity to monitor the contents availability, those contents needs to be uploaded again and again even though its necessity is required for a dedicated level of users.