>>William Haynes: Welcome back to SourceFed. I'm William Haynes.
Snapchat. Such a marvel.
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For those of you who are unaware Snapchat is a smartphone app
where users can send photos to each other for a specific amount of time then the photos
"disappear" forever and I put quotes over "disappear" because a thing called screen
capping exist.
It's on your phone. If you have an iPhone you just *click* that's it. All it takes. Ruined it.
It would seem that a lot of people use this "disappear" function to send scantly clad
photos with something the youngins' refer to as "sexting."
A study done through the University of Washington polling 127 Snapchat users from ages 18 and
up discovered that 60 percent of people used the app essentially for "funny content."
Not sextamating. Right. Right. Right Right. Funny content.
I find noody pics funny too buddy. Once a saw a booby so nice I laughed for three
days straight. Couldn't breathe.
The second most favored use of the app is to send a "selfie."
Is that all my generation is in to? Jokes and selfies? I mean, yeah, I do both on a
regular basis *take pic* but I also do serious stuff. Like one time I actually googled why
the war in Iraq started and I found out too.
There was like bombs and bad people and mission accomplished.
At this point in time Snapchat has attracted an estimated 82 million users with the majority
of them between the ages of 13 and 25.
I'm in that age range. But I'm starting to get towards that age that sending a photo
on the app makes me feel old. Every time I look into that front facing camera I look
back at my no longer 13 year face and ask my self "who am I" do kids still know who
Tony the Tiger is?
When asked of their opinion of Snapchat a respondent stated that the app "lets me have
more cats in my life because my friends who don't normally post pictures of their cats
on other social media will Snapchat their cats to me.
You know what, I think I need to get in on this.
The study showed that a little less than 10 percent admit to using the app for legally
questionable content. Does that mean drugs?
A little less than 50% have sent content including "drinks" because everybody has that friend
that every time they drink alcohol they have to let the world know. "Hello everyone, I
am mature and consuming alcohol."
A little over 50% use the app to send content of "What I'm Up To." This is me living my
life.
And a little less than 60% use it to send funny things.
You know, I stayed up all night wondering where the sun went.
Then it dawned on me.
>>Matt Lieberman: Ha!
So in conclusion according to this study, Snapchat may not be about what you thought it was about.
Snapchat is kind of like marriage, not as much sexy time as you thought it would be.
I don't know. Remember to share the video with your friends, so they can learn them some.
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And if you wanna learn some more about Snapchats and you can see a video I've done on my channel.
Click on the links in the description down below. My names William Haynes.
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