What every parent needs to know about Snapchat

Do you want to share a picture with a friend? Of course there’s Facebook, Instagram and Twitter…or there’s Snapchat. The picture-sharing app hasn’t even been around two years, but Snapchat already hosts more than 60 million shared photos every day. The premise is simple: you take a photo or video of yourself and send it to anyone on your friend list. But before sending, you set a timer to determine how long the photo will be visible. Each picture can only last up to ten seconds; so once it gets to your friend’s phone, they look at it and seconds later, it disappears. Or does it?…Read more..