Snapchat. Snapchat is a photo messaging application ("app") developed by Evan Spiegel and Robert Murphy, then Stanford University students.[3][4][5] Using the application, users can take photos, record videos, add text and drawings, and send them to a controlled list of recipients.
These sent photographs and videos are known as "Snaps". Users set a time limit for how long recipients can view their Snaps (as of April 2014, the range is from 1 to 10 seconds),[6] after which they will be hidden from the recipient's device and deleted from Snapchat's servers. Features A comparison of the interfaces of Snapchat versions 4.0 (left) and 5.0 (right). As of July 2013, the interface of Snapchat, on both the Android and iOS versions, consists of a large circular button located at the center of the bottom portion of the screen, flanked on the sides by a picture of a three-dimensional box on the left hand side, and a two-dimensional striped box on the right hand side. Users History. Snapchat images that have “disappeared forever” stay right on your phone… Snapchat is a wildly popular app for Androids and iDevices that allows you to share photos with your friends.
Snapchat replaces more pedestrian ways of sharing photos, such as sending them by email. The app enables you - indeed, it pretty much encourages you - to share snapshots you would probably be wiser to keep to yourself, or better yet not to take in the first place (my emphasis below): Snapchat Allows You to Send Messages and Photos That Quickly Disappear. One essential aspect of privacy is the ability to control how much we disclose to others.
Unfortunately, we’ve lost much of that control now that every photo, chat, or status update posted on a social-media site can be stored in the cloud: even though we intended to share that information with someone, we don’t necessarily want it to stay available, out of context, forever. The weight of our digital pasts is emerging as the central privacy challenge of our time. Recover deleted Snapchats? Decipher Forensics finds sexting app's privacy problem. Mark Weinstein: Be Careful Sexting With Snapchat (Especially You, Anthony!) Now that Anthony Weiner is running for mayor of NYC, one imagines that he is choosing much safer ways to communicate with his extramarital online girlfriends, after his prior sexting scandal cost him his job in Congress.
Perhaps he selected Snapchat. After all, on their app homepage, they say: "Snapchat is the fastest way to share a moment with friends. You control how long your friends can view your message -- simply set the timer up to ten seconds and send. Askfm privacy settings. Privacy settings. Netsafe. Many people are contacting NetSafe for advice about issues they are having with a popular social networking website called ask.fm.
Below we’ve identified the important terms and conditions of use published on the website. If you believe these terms are being breached by the website’s users there is a ‘contact us’ link at the bottom of the ask.fm homepage you can use to start the complaint process with the company. The company have advised us that users can also contact ask.fm for help by email to support@ask.fm. How can I stay safe on ask.fm? We recommend that all young people prevent anonymous questions being posted. Ask.fm staff have informed us that it is also possible to block the person harassing you, once you get another question from them. PRIVACY– taken from with underline emphasis added. Your replies are publicly viewable data Your replies to questions submitted via ask.fm will be published to other websites.
TERMS – taken from. How to report askfm. Askfm report. Ask.fm. Ask.fm is an interest-based social Q&A website, launched in June 2010.
Users invite questions from other members of the site. When you talk too much for Twitter. News Articles. After 4th suicide, teens call for shutdown of Ask.fm. Following the online-bullying-related suicides of Jessica Laney, Ciara Pugsley, and Erin and Shannon Gallagher, supporters of the girls are calling for the shutdown of Ask.fm.
On Sunday, 16-year-old Jessica Laney was found dead in her Hudson, Fla., home after she was called things like a “fuckin ugly ass hoe” on the question-and-answer network. On Ask.fm, Laney answered anonymous questions about her sex life, relationships, and weight. "Can you kill yourself already? " asked a commenter.
Another wrote, "Nobody even cares about you. " Supporters started a Facebook remembrance page less than 24 hours after Laney’s death. Comments. Ask.fm: This week a 15-year-old boy killed himself after being hounded on it. No wonder mothers want it banned. By Barbara Davies Published: 23:59 GMT, 12 April 2013 | Updated: 13:09 GMT, 13 April 2013 When she looked at her teenage daughter’s laptop, it was almost impossible for Caroline Quinn to believe that the vicious words on the screen had been written about her child.
‘Slut’ and ‘anorexic freak’ were some of the choice words and phrases which had been posted on 13-year-old Laura’s social networking page. Another message, posted in response to a photograph of Laura at a friend’s birthday party, spat the vitriol: ‘Put some clothes on. I don’t wanna see your slutty face on my computer.’ Unlike sites such as Facebook and Twitter, it has no privacy settings and so allows users — naive, gullible youngsters with more curiosity than sense — to pose questions to each other anonymously. Ask.fm: Pupils and parents warned over social networking website linked to teen abuse. Schools across the country are sending out letters advising pupils not to use Ask.fmSite lets anyone see details of boys and girls as young as 13, then post comments or questionsThere is no way to report offensive commentsHas become linked to a number of recent teen suicides By Martin Beckfor Thed for The Mail on Sunday Published: 02:03 GMT, 13 January 2013 | Updated: 13:07 GMT, 13 January 2013.
Teens 'proving themselves' on site plagued by bullying - One News. Published: 5:49AM Monday June 10, 2013 Source: ONE News/Fairfax.
