The popular photo messaging app, Snapchat one mobile apps that is swiftly gaining popularity across the world, as users around world send 150 million messages on a daily basis. This amazing photo messaging app has been able to grasp the attention of mobile users in very short time because it enables them to send their text, photos, drawings and recoded videos to a controlled list of friends or recipients. The message has timer set by the sender and deletes itself making the communication time dependent. The images are removes from the mobile device of the recipient and the server of the company within ten or less seconds. Due to this feature a majority of the users of Snapchat are young people, which may be using the app to swap photos that are legally termed as child pornography because they believe that it’s a safe service to send such images. However, in reality that is not the case, as there are some snags with the photo messaging app.
Even though, users’ images have been deleted from the mobile device of the recipients within 10 seconds, but there is still a chance that their photos can leak online, if their friend take a screenshot of the picture. Although, Snapchat informs the user if a screenshot of his or her sent image has been taken by the recipient, it is a risky thing to send images through this service. As a result of that Ottawa police has recently warned teenagers about Snapchat, according to CBC.
“But Ottawa police Const. Caroline Gallant said teenagers should be careful because copies can be made. She said others could take a photo or screen capture of an image or message, which would enable it to last forever online.”
Gallant also said that, “Nothing ever gets deleted. As soon as you create a digital image, it’s there forever.”
Shedding further light on the issue, Gallant said that these saved images could not only be distorted, but they could also be used for cyber bullying. Therefore, Gallant wants that every parent should talk to their children in order to enquire whether they are using Snapchat or not. If they find out that their kids are using the photo messaging app then, they must inform them about the potential damage it can cause, if others use the service in “a destructive way.”
It is a moral duty of all the parents to keep a check on their children even in normal routine, as the negative usage of technology can cause harm to anyone.
Source: iPhoneinCanada
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