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:What and what? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-22 22:13 · Score: -1, Redundant

Snapchat tries to enforce as much as possible the demands for privacy: if the recipient stores the message (through a camera screen capture for example), then it is clear s/he is going against the wishes of the sender, and that ultimately could have legal ramifications.
NOPE.
THE INTERNET DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY! GOODNIGHT!