@atomicpoet

Snapchat was introduced 10 years ago or so. It's key feature was marketed as: photo's can be viewed once, and they disappear.

I remember two then 11/12 year old girls trying to convince me (!) about how it worked and how great and funny it is. They were over the moon about this "new technology" which is just an instant messaging app that lacked a "Save image"-button.

I told these girls that you can take a photo with another camera just before the photo goes to Evan Spiegel's proposed Hereafter of Bits & Bytes. Instead taking possibility in serious consideration, they became angry! They did not want to hear about photo's being just bytes that can be copied endlessly and that bytes can't be burned like a real photograph.

At the time I read "Program or be Programmed" by
@Rushkoff . These girls were obviously programmed. Even worse; Snapshot purposefully sold them a lie. A leak of "disappeared" photo's a couple of years later proved that. But still Snapchat was not dismantled or prohibited and it survived. 😠