@Snapchat now racks up 350 million shares of self-deleting snaps per day - Milennial Girl’s Litmus Test for Friends and future boyfriends

“The fundamental premise of Snapchat is that it's better and more fun if you delete everything except the things that are really important that you want to save”

Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel at TechDisrupt on Monday September 9^th 2013

Looks like Facebook’s in trouble when it comes to now arch-rival Snapchat, against whom they’d launched an offensive called Poke as chronicled in my blog article entitled “Facebook gets Mission Impossible serious with Poke as the Snapchat bringing “Sexting” back”.

Snapchat is now racking up 350 million shares a day, if you can call sending Mission Impossible style this-picture-will-self-destruct-in-10-seconds photos as shares as stated in “Snapchat rivals Facebook in photos with 350M 'snaps' per day”, published September 9, 2013 12:01 PM PDT by Jennifer Van Grove, CNET News.

As much as this may not seem to be big news, it is in the world of Social Media. After the scare of kids dying from Snapchat Overexposure, the “disease” where your body parts get exposed to the world in on Snapchat and a video coming to a smartphone near you as described in my blog article entitled “Snapchat Leaked Facebook page shut down but Snapchat Leaked website still live - Snapchat's Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol is really Much Ado About Nothing”, suddenly this unexpectedly happens.

Snapchat’s popular – Not improved privacy just upgraded friends

It’s truly an indication that either Snapchat has improved on the promise of self-disappearing selfies or….most likely…Millennials, like the Group Icona Pop’s song “I love It” doesn’t care one way or another. Selfies, taken with one hand or your friend using a Smartphone or Digital Camera (who does that, REALLY?) to show your best side, after all, are now common currency on Facebook, where it’s customary for people to take flattering pictures of themselves for others to see.

Facebook focuses on putting your best foot out there. After all, other may be watching, and with Facebook’s poor Privacy options, so too may your boss who’s NOT ever your friend. So you share your fully clothes pics and selfies of your proudest or not-so-goofy moments….and leave the striptease to Snapchat.

Snapchat Privacy’s easier to control – It’s all about the Company you Keep

On Snapchat there are no Friends, Groups or Likes for your Selfies. Rather you share revealing parts of yourself or crazy moments you wish would be forgotten with others you know in your immediate vicinity, not foreigners all the way across the world like Chatroulette as described in my blog article entitled “Chatroulette, FaceTime and Smartphone Video Calling - The Thomas Crown Affair”

There is the fulfilling satisfaction that once you share a nude selfie, breasts et al, you’re guaranteed that these pics capturing a moment of wild abandon or silly introspection only last 10 seconds. Interestingly too, thanks to the fact Snapchat only shares via your choosing who you send pictures to, it really comes down to you choosing your friends and lovers wisely.

Guess I was right too about nerd perverts as noted in my blog article entitled “Facebook gets Mission Impossible serious with Poke as the Snapchat bringing “Sexting” back”. They are the ONLY persons who’d bother to make a screenshot of your nude pics or even hack their own phone to keep that less-than flattering photo as a permanent memento to spread to others.

So many seem to be taking my advice and simply have moved from saying eenie-meenie-miney-moe to playing Russian Roulette when it comes to selecting – deselecting –who’s really your friend. After all, that’s what it comes down to; you’re true friend won’t sell you out like that!

Snapchat is a Girl’s Litmus Test for Friends and future boyfriends

Smarter females (I suspect they love Snapchat to bits!) may decide, as a way of testing out a guy, to send him just a basic nude photo and see what happens i.e. hear from her girlfriends.  If they get the 411 and it’s bad, they cut him loose in the cafeteria with a nice set of expletives. But if he’s true and doesn’t blab, then he’s a keeper and possibly boyfriend material, as he’ll keep all her secrets safe.

Trust is a hard thing to come by, especially if you’re a teenager. Snapchat requires that whomever you send your snaps to be someone you can trust with your intimates. If that persons passes the test, not only are they NOT some nerdy immature boy that’ll sell you out on FB for Likes, but he may be boyfriend material too.

Snapchat’s also a great litmus test for your smartphone toting friends, as evidenced by its popularity fuelled partly by its notoriety and partly because it gives control over privacy back to the user. YOU fully control who you send a salacious selfie or video to, and you’ll know when the shit hits the fan.

Who can keep a secret best 10 seconds after the memory is gone? Accept the Mission and Send a self-destructing snap and find out! Those that pass the test are keepers; throw away the friends that just can’t stop blabbing about that pic that shows you have smaller breasts than your mates or that video showing you playing nude piano in the dark with your boyfriend.

By the way dear reader, you have 10 seconds before this blog post self destructs!