What is the real purpose of Snapchat?

It started as a Peek a boo app for kids. Yes, it facilitated the sexting culture but not by intention. No, the images do not entirely self destruct (read about hacks).

The purpose is the allure of being the next mysterious and funny social media for the next generation. There is a layer of artificial intelligence that it possesses which also makes it unique -- we know them more casually as the face filters where you can put a chipmunk nose on your own nose. It allows the narcissist to practice taking pictures of themselves.

Mommies and Daddies wonder why their teens and college students have data problems? Snap chat is a huge data hog.

Communication evolves.It went from this:

Letter - Formal

Call - Primary

Email - Informal

To this:

Letter - Infrequent

Call - Formal

Email - Primary

Text - Informal

To now this:

Letter - Infrequent

Call - Emergency

Email - Formal

Text - Primary

Snap - Informal

As the Text has become the primary form of communication, there are times when one wants to share something with a friend, but it seems too trivial to text. A Snap is inherently lighthearted, and perfect for these situations.

A way for porn stars to make money.

Back in the day, you would see someone face to face.

You could talk to each other or even flash each other.

No recording of it, just your memory of it happening.

I guess Snapchat is trying to emulate that in the digital world.

People don't want a trail of everything they write.

It hasn't caught on for me. That's just my theory.

Not a millenial. wrote:

Pretty much so CNA chicks working on the floor can send t*tty pics that self destruct after 15 seconds?

Madam speaker, may I remind you that the corporations are cashing in our libidos and libidinal and social events and milestones!

(Prime minister's questions)

Development of facial recognition and real time face-mapping technology.

xcvxcv wrote:

Communication evolves.

It went from this:

Letter - Formal

Call - Primary

Email - Informal

To this:

Letter - Infrequent

Call - Formal

Email - Primary

Text - Informal

To now this:

Letter - Infrequent

Call - Emergency

Email - Formal

Text - Primary

Snap - Informal

As the Text has become the primary form of communication, there are times when one wants to share something with a friend, but it seems too trivial to text. A Snap is inherently lighthearted, and perfect for these situations.

I agree with this… But to directly answer the question: it's to make money for the owners of Snap, largely due to the advertising it can sell because of how popular its use has become especially in a demographic that isn't as exposed to traditional media ads as previous generations.

Yo man snapchat was cracking it. If you was on Vine you'd da scoped da comedians man and they jumped to snapchat. But before dat, it was gold rush, a fad. California? Or Alaska!! Nah man Nevada, silver mines maybe. I dunno

I've concluded Snap is just a way for people to cheat on their spouses. You can get dozens of nudes sent to your phone anytime and you can even set up times and places to meet with all the evidence disappearing. What a great world we live in.

sbeefyk1 wrote:

...you can even set up times and places to meet with all the evidence disappearing. What a great world we live in.

Like... a phone call?

Seems everyone on this thread is missing the point.

Teens growing up don't want to be on the same platform as their parents, Facebook, so they went looking for other platforms. They've learned that dumb tweets come back to haunt you, so they only post important things on Instagram to update friends/family and the rest they put on Snap for their inner circle. That's what Snapchat is, it's the old Twitter and FB back when you could post and not get sent to HR or have your grandma see that you're smoking dope topless in the back of your senior boyfriends Corolla.

CNA?

Not a millenial. wrote:

Pretty much so CNA chicks working on the floor can send t*tty pics that self destruct after 15 seconds?

What means "CNA," pray tell?

Urban Dictionary wrote:

Not a millenial. wrote:

Pretty much so CNA chicks working on the floor can send t*tty pics that self destruct after 15 seconds?

What means "CNA," pray tell?

Certified Novell Administrator. Certified Novell Administrators® (CNAs) provide companies direct support for software users in various work environments, including professional offices and small businesses, workgroups or departments, and corporate information services (IS).

Shabazz wrote:

Urban Dictionary wrote:

What means "CNA," pray tell?

Certified Novell Administrator. Certified Novell Administrators® (CNAs) provide companies direct support for software users in various work environments, including professional offices and small businesses, workgroups or departments, and corporate information services (IS).

Well, thanks. I was leaning towards "Certified Nursing Assistant."

Anyone else? Bueller?

Urban Dictionary wrote:

Well, thanks. I was leaning towards "Certified Nursing Assistant."

Anyone else? Bueller?

You have to be right. My high school girlfriend was a CNA during HS, treating the job as an internship before eventually going to college for nursing and becoming a nurse practitioner. The job qualifications and pay are what you'd expect from a job that a current HS student could get in their spare time. The joke was trying to pick a low-end, female dominated job to play off of.

Being able to screenshot snaps is bringing it's death sooner rather than later.

To the person who laid out the "formal, primary, etc" post, nice work. But you could go further back than that. And further into the future.

Not a millenial. wrote:

Pretty much so CNA chicks working on the floor can send t*tty pics that self destruct after 15 seconds?

Snapchat is a distraction while mark zeeburg plots to secretly re unveil the old Facebook. Facebook 2.0.

Invite only , need college electronic address, no kids no geezers . Walls. Account creation date. You heard it here first.

Why isn't there a social network for soccer mom's, like strava? You heard it here first. The next air bnb, the big idea

Hey! This guy knows THE FUTURE?!?!?!?!

Boyfriend in the corolla wrote:

Being able to screenshot snaps is bringing it's death sooner rather than later.

To the person who laid out the "formal, primary, etc" post, nice work. But you could go further back than that. And further into the future.