One would expect, with the trend of the current generation to take selfies all day, and then send them around all over – and not just to boyfriends, but potential boyfriends and friends, that they would come up with a way to defend some of those photos!  I was quite impressed with the whole concept behind Snapchat and how it allows for photos to disappear after a set number of seconds.  In other words, people can send pictures that they may not want somebody else to have indefinitely, and then set it so that that photograph disappears from the person’s phone after, let’s say, 10 seconds.  

It is obviously an application that is available for most phones and I think it is a great idea.  It is unfortunately not foolproof – you can take a screenshot of your phone and it will then snap the photograph at that time or take one frame of a video that you have sent like that.  It does, on the other hand, then sends a notice to the person who sent you the photo indicating that a screenshot has been taken and in that way, they will certainly get the impression that they should not send you any further photographs, because they will know that you are keeping a copy.  It almost forces somebody to then ask, before they do that, as to whether they have the other person’s permission to take a screenshot because it would be extremely rude to take one without permission!  In the ideal world of course, they will avoid that situation as well and I am sure that there are a lot of celebrities, not to mention models and regular people out there, who all wish that they have sent their private pictures by Snapchat instead of via text or e-mail.  Of course, as we all discussed on my blog some time ago, people have long since forgotten Jennifer Lawrence’s pictures and it has not done her any harm at all.  That is not exactly a good example, because her pictures were allegedly stolen from Out Cloud, but it does illustrate the concept in any event.