Wow. Talk about a non-reaction. As if bad code resulting in the disclosure of 4.6MM numbers and IDs is a non-issue.
Posted something about this on FB, achieved zero reactions which really surprised me, until I realized that some think it's only for sexting... and thus nobody is willing to admit they've installed it (it's useful for other stuff as well, I'm my own emoticon).
Several of my friends are in the list (known nicks match known numbers, showing exactly what's the problem here).
I'm in college, and I would say 95% of my friends have snapchat. Most of them use it at least once a day. Nobody sends naked pics. Just stuff that you wouldn't necessarily post to facebook. Snapchat's reputation as naked pics only is completely unfounded... it's not like they're sending 450mm nudes every day.
EDIT: hey' where's the response I was responding to?
Obviously (obviously!) I don't use it for sex pix. Never trusted the "no screenshot possible" aspect, nor does my wife...
Anyhow, I dismissed it as useless for that exact same reason, but I have a bunch of friends that I send silly messages to and like I said, it works quite well if you use your own face as an emoticon.
We also like the paint-over the picture feature. It's easy to add odd picture annotations (stick figure skiers in the snow, cowboys and indians) and then send cartoons back and forth.
It also has practical uses, because you can save the picture before sending. The other day I was in the market for window shades -- I know, so very Burbistan -- so I took a shot of each window in my home, marked up every picture with the dimensions and saved it to my phone (my friends have no interest in 18 sets of window dimensions)
Best of all, all this nonsense doesn't take up any space on my phone.
Posted something about this on FB, achieved zero reactions which really surprised me, until I realized that some think it's only for sexting... and thus nobody is willing to admit they've installed it (it's useful for other stuff as well, I'm my own emoticon).
Several of my friends are in the list (known nicks match known numbers, showing exactly what's the problem here).
Maybe I should post something on their wall? :-)