Why We Should Celebrate Snapchat and Encourage Ephemeral Communication

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @09:09PM from the get-off-my-lawn dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Within a few months of launching, Snapchat has made an enormous and lasting impact on the culture of communication on the Internet – and we should all be grateful. They have simplified a security process enough to the point that anybody can use it, while validating the market of the next generation of privacy-preserving ephemeral communication. Most importantly, we may finally get a break from the forced permanence of the Facebook and Google world, where everything you do and share is a data point to be monetized and re-sold to the highest bidder."

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Re:Perhaps by smallfries · 2013-05-22 21:28 · Score: 4, Funny

Best slashvertisement. Ever.
Best editing of a summary. Ever.
Lowest point? We should be handing out awards for this shit.

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Re: broken link by fisted · 2013-05-22 22:15 · Score: 4, Funny

Editors don't edit anymore because they perfectly know their readers don't read TFS anyway. The only group left on /. holding up to their promises are

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Slashdot bug report by 2phar · 2013-05-23 00:31 · Score: 4, Funny

The 'disable advertising' option appears to no longer be working.