Comments on: Snapchat and our never-ending quest for impermanence

By: deepak

deepak — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 09:55:44 +0000

hi,
as gigaom coverin a lot of snap chat … i recieved my phone bill today it shows i have send 6 internation sms ! to a snapchat related number! without my consent ! it can be worm but other user have experienced it ! found the below forum ,it was the same number as mentioned !
although a small amount but was illegally deducted ! i can do shit about it !

http://forum.kvinneguiden.no/index.php?showtopic=706645

By: Callieo

Callieo — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:50:57 +0000

Technology is moving faster than either legislation or human acceptance and behavior.

Try reading some ot the T and Cs of the more invasive of the image sharing apps…..what they access and have access to is worrying.

But give it a few years and we will all be used to this scenario.

Or else gone off grid…..she padlocks the gate and retires to the smallholding ;)

By: Statspotting

Statspotting — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:57:28 +0000

Google Glasses will change everything. You too can see what I am seeing now’ is where this will logically take us to. In adidtion to not knowing who is watching us with Google glasses, we will also not know where it is getting broadcast. Life will be fun in 2 years from now.

By: Guest

Guest — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:50:18 +0000

Yet another failed copy protection measure. Send me a snapchat and I can just take a picture of it with my camera. Boom. Permanent record. No fancy hack required.

Here’s an idea: don’t do stupid things in front of a camera then post results online. Don’t hang around “friends” who would do that to you.

And finally, grow a thicker skin. The star wars kid didn’t do so badly. Last I heard, he got a ton of free swag, and special effects artists added real lightsaber effects to his video. I’d revel in it.

By: Sheldon

Sheldon — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:30:18 +0000

Honestly, the way the media whipped themselves up into this frenzy about Snapchat and the dangers of “sexting” just goes to show how little those who cover technology actually understand it. Any 14 year old with an iPhone could have told you seven months ago that Snapchat wasn’t for sexting, and yet in story after story “adults” who had never even touched the service would laugh and say Snapchat was “that dick pic app” instead of recognizing it for what it was, a brand new method of communication.

The Silicon Valley crowd (with very rare exceptions) fundamentally just doesn’t understand consumer technology, until it’s all too late and the numbers force them to recognize otherwise.