By: Sarah Jones
Snapchat's recently had 100,000,
supposedly private, pictures leaked onto the Internet. Surprisingly, I haven't
heard of many people who decided to stop using the app. Even, college students,
one of the largest demographics who use Snapchat, have said they still trust Snapchat
and will continue to use it.
One would think that once there was
the risk of those pictures coming out they would think about not using the app
anymore. That's not the case. A study recently done by Sumpto, showed that 75%
of college students would keep on using Snapchat the same way they did before
the hack, and 58% said they still trusted Snapchat.
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| Infographic from Sumpto/Mashable |
This might mean that what they're
sending might not be bad at all, and that they don't care who sees the pictures
they take. I think that society thinks all college students use Snapchat for is
to send risque pictures, which some of them probably are.
Snapchat has said that they can see
the pictures everyone takes. Which is just another reason why you have to be
careful with everything you put on the Internet, post in a social media site,
or engage with in an app. Just don't be dumb with what you post. If you're an
open book and don't care if you're private pictures get leaked then great, but
if you don't want them to get leaked; just don't do it at all.
However, I don't think college
students are using Snapchat for taking scandalous pictures. I think a lot of
students use Snapchat to show friends what they'd been doing that day through
the "My Story" feature, send ugly faces to their best friends, or
take pictures of silly things they'd seen that day. Also, Snapchat recently
added the use of video chat and instant messaging to their app, which allowed a
lot of people another way of communicating without just taking pictures or
videos one-sided. So basically, I think Snapchat is just a more convenient, and
instant way for people to share pictures.
Since college students are such a
large demographic for Snapchat, they have rolled out a new feature called,
"Campus Story," which allows students to add pictures and videos to
one specific feed that can only be seen by other people at that same campus.
However, college students are reluctant to use it only if school administrators
also have access to the feed.
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