Class 11, Snapchat as a collaboration tool

Snapchat is a popular collaboration app used by many people to exchange photos and videos. Snapchat allows you to add friends through your contacts in your phone or by manually entering in a username. If you receive a snapchat, you are only allowed between 1 and 10 seconds to view it. The person sending the snapchat can choose the amount of time the photo can be seen. After that, the photo disappears. However, you are allowed to screenshot a snapchat that you receive, which takes away from the purpose of it disappearing. You are notified by snapchat that someone has screenshotted one of your snapchats. One feature of snapchat is that you can replay one, and only one snapchat in a 24 hour span.  

Snapchat is not necessarily an app that is used securely and safely. It is more so an app that is used to communicate with friends and family by sending photos and videos. Snapchats interface is very easy to use. You simply take a photo by clicking the button or holding it down for a video. You are then given the option to choose your recipients or making a "my story" which is visible for all of your followers to see. A "story" differs from a single snapchat because your followers are able to view it more than once. 

The users of Snapchat vary entirely in age. Several celebrities have made their username public for their followers to follow them and see what they are doing. Sports teams have also done the same showing behind screen footage of the locker room or not "on the field" things. Snap chat has a feature that allows people to post to a live feed such as "Patriots vs Jets". This live feed is able to be viewed by all snapchat users. You can upload a photo, or video but it is run through snapchat to authorize that it is appropriate and relevant to the feed itself.

Another feature of snapchat is the "discover" page. This part has posts and videos from other sites such as Buzzfeed, ESPN, Tastemade, national Geographic, Daily Mail, CNN, and many others. You can click and watch any one of these. After 24 hours, they will refresh to the new posts.