Nov 06, 2015 11:10 PM EST
Snapchat: Why Both Kids and Parents Love It

Snapchat is the application that allows its users to share photos or videos that vanishes. If apps were cool kids, Snapchat would convene court at the center of the cafeteria: Its 100 million everyday active supporters are mainly millennials and teenagers. About 38 percent of American teenagers use it (in Ireland, an overwhelming 52 percent of teenagers use the app).

As per New York Times, Snapchat made a shocking first impression on parents, quickly gaining a reputation as "that thing where kids post nude photos that disappear." But for an analyst who studies the youth and social media, he knows that every app suppresses a unique readiness for harm - and that there is consistently a further side to the story.

Researchers at the University of Michigan pealed in:A new study of undergraduates discovered that the use of Snapchat had anticipated a more constructive mood and social amusement amidst college students than visiting Facebook.

According to an anonymous blogger, he has spent years crouching at ocular platforms like Facebook and Instagram which usually influences the teenagers to fabricate the perfect life, even when they're miserable. Snapchat, on the other hand, suggests its users several options to adorn a post. Its insufficient filters - add a speed, time or location stamp, draw a savage photo with the use of your finger or address a caption - can only be bashed, awkwardly, over your idea. The message from the app's inventor implies to be: Record your life and not yourself.

Nearly all visual platforms put comment from peers in the middle of the experience. Life on Instagram, for instance, is as much relating to the speed of pulling off likes as sharing something artistic with peers. A lot of users consider likes as an tool that measures fame and even self-worth, with some even removing posts that haven't peaked sufficient attention. For tweens and young teenagers, the desire is so dominant that many post substance is devised only to gather likes.

But not so with Snapchat, where user participation is nominal. There is no "like" toggle to be seen here, and no customary order of reciprocity. Users have two options to share a subject: post a Story, where the app will join together a slide show of your text from the last 24 hours; or share personally with a person or group of your choice. You can see who followed your Story, but viewers can't post a feedback. That means you use more time in sharing and consuming, and a fewer time distressing about those who liked you and those who didn't.

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