SOCIAL MEDIA

摘要

More than 350 million photos are uploaded just to Facebook each day. Terrified that all of those images will stick around forever? Snapchat to the rescue. It's a smartphone app created by two former Stanford frat brothers that offers photo flashing: the opportunity to send a photo or video to someone and have it "self-destruct" within seconds. By rendering digital photos fleeting rather than archival, Snapchat offers a face-saving alternative to our constantly tracked, unerasable lives on the Internet—and a chance to reintroduce a modicum of privacy. Users are now sharing over 100 million snaps daily.