“I was just snapping my mom this morning,” said Spiegel. The company needs to pull in more adults, starting with the founder’s parents. Last year, Snapchat told AllThingsD that most of its users were from 13 to 23. Touting the potential security flaws of a product might seem like an odd move for a popular app, but for Snapchat to continue growing at a rapid pace it needs to appeal to a wider audience. Spiegel pointed out that it is possible for a recipient to take take screenshots of snaps, and said it was even possible for determined hackers with time and money to access the messages and “betray your trust.” Meet the kid-friendly version of Snapchat The short lifespan of the messages is what has made the 2-year-old app a natural for content people don’t want falling into the wrong hands, such as naughty photos. More than 350 million of these messages, called “snaps,” are traded every day on Snapchat, according to Spiegel. Private photo and text messages disappear forever after one to 10 seconds. Snapchat is a popular mobile messaging app for sending self-destructing messages. “It’s not a good way to send inappropriate photos,” said Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel at the San Francisco Techcrunch Disrupt conference on Monday. I think a good portrait ought to tell something of the subject's past and suggest something of his future." So next time someone points a camera at us we should either respect the profound technology they enable, and pose or when the photographs come through we should not complain about how fat/ugly/old we seem.Snapchat is trying to get away from its reputation as a service for randy sexting teens and secretive philanderers. "A composed expression seems to have a more profound likeness. "I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot," the legendary photograph Bill Brandt said in 1948. But then, if we are so vain, the very thing we should do is prepare for the camera, or avoid it completely. Perhaps it's because we fear that we'll rarely look as good in a photograph as we do in our mind's eye. The camera is different, few things - save for a gun - can be pointed at a person and strip them so psychologically bare. Except that in a mirror, we are not afraid to pose because we are rarely in company and the image is fleeting, not recorded for all time. The American essayist and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes, writing in 1859, described the first form of photography, the daguerreotype, as a mirror with a memory of how it reflected images like a mirror, yet held them as a picture. We may laugh at this vanity, but is it so wrong to care how we look in photographs? They do, after all, record our personal history - who wouldn't want to look their best? Luciano Pavarotti is rumoured to have his own hydraulic stool for pictures, so that he is always higher than the photographer thus avoiding the top of his head ever being seen (it is said he is balding). If the photographer followed her round, trying to catch her out, she would diligently move with him, perfectly poised at all times. A little preparation at the shutter-click stage can pay dividends later there is little point pretending you don't care as the photographer says "cheese", only to care very much later when the results prove conclusively that you have jowls and eye-bags to rival an English bulldog's.ĭivas like Barbara Cartland knew this it was said she'd so studied which was her best side that she would only allow herself to be captured from a certain angle. There was little time for self-hate, because the sheer thrill of seeing your image superseded it.īut, more important, people also approached having their photograph taken entirely differently - they prepared, they posed. Before instamatic cameras and the industries to support them became readily accessible in the 1960s, having your picture taken was a relative luxury. But our relationship with cameras is really - in the everyday sense - only decades old and we don't get the deal: they can only give as good as we do. We may think we are - we nearly all own one, have taken a photograph or been in one. It is a peculiar phenomenon, so why do we do it? Perhaps because we're just not used to cameras.
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