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Re:Snapchat Spurned $3 Billion Acquisition Offer from Facebook by dsl on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @02:24PM (#6727721)
Snapchat needs to be valued not as a social network, maybe as a amateur porn company.

I have lots of friends who use Snapchat (mostly the teen to college demographic), and they all use it for photos that they don't want other people to ever see. They use iMessage or Whatsapp for everything normal.

The user generated content literally disappears in 10 seconds, and you are left with... nothing.

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Re:Snapchat Spurned $3 Billion Acquisition Offer from Facebook by nqureshi on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @02:38PM (#6727840)
As I understand it, your argument is:

1. Some friends I know use Snapchat for 'photos they don't want other people to see'.

2. Therefore, most people use Snapchat to send porn.

3. Therefore, Snapchat should be valued as an amateur porn company.

Do you really believe that's a valid argument? And that all of the 350m+ photos sent on Snapchat every day are porn?

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Re:Snapchat Spurned $3 Billion Acquisition Offer from Facebook by dsl on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @05:08PM (#6728984)
Yes. No.
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Re:Snapchat Spurned $3 Billion Acquisition Offer from Facebook by jaynos on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @02:39PM (#6727853)
Ctrl+PrintScreen or WindowsKey+PrintScreen (if you want to be fancy).
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Re:Snapchat Spurned $3 Billion Acquisition Offer from Facebook by tanzam75 on Thursday November 14, 2013 @02:03AM (#6731033)
> Ctrl+PrintScreen or WindowsKey+PrintScreen (if you want to be fancy).

You actually don't need the Ctrl key. Just PrintScreen will also do the same thing.

WindowsKey + PrintScreen is a nice idea. Problem is, I usually do Alt + PrintScreen. Adding the Windows key doesn't do anything in that case.

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Re:Snapchat Spurned $3 Billion Acquisition Offer from Facebook by renata on Thursday November 14, 2013 @09:02AM (#6732279)
SnapChat does notify the sending user if you take a screenshot in any conventional fashion.
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Re:Snapchat Spurned $3 Billion Acquisition Offer from Facebook by jaynos on Thursday November 14, 2013 @06:52PM (#6736661)
Thanks for letting me know. I've never used the service, but it's good to know that they thought of that.
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Re:Snapchat Spurned $3 Billion Acquisition Offer from Facebook by objclxt on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @05:41PM (#6729187)
> The user generated content literally disappears in 10 seconds, and you are left with... nothing

It doesn't disappear, and whilst it might disappear off their servers I can guarantee that won't be the case in the future. At some point a court is going to force SnapChat to preserve a user's photos on their systems, probably someone under a wiretap or surveillance. I wouldn't be totally surprised if this hadn't happened already.

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