“At 50 million snaps a day, there are bound to be a few that make people uncomfortable. I think we just do the best we can to make users aware of the risks. It's restoring the immediacy to conversations because you don't have to think about what you are saying before you say it.”
He would much rather concentrate on bringing the fun back into our digital lives with his app. Users no longer have to worry about the idea that the web doesn't forget anything.
To take a piece of the pie
Of course, there are parties that want to cash in on this phenomenon. Kirill Bichutsky, the man behind the website list to data Champagne Facials , has now created a Tumblr dedicated to photos of so-called 'Snapchat Sluts'. However, creator Bichutsky has already taken the site offline after all the attention it has received in the past week. Things were getting a bit too hot for him:
Honest image of yourself
If you look at people’s profiles on social media and what they spread about themselves through these media, it seems like we live in a perfect world. Everyone pretends to be better than they really are. Social media turns everyone into a narcissist, because we live by the doctrine that the web forgets nothing. With Snapchat, according to owner Siegel, we finally have the opportunity to pretend to be who we really are. We don’t have to worry about our digital immortality. With self-destructive media, our digital life is finally becoming transient.