I downloaded it when I downloaded tinder. To this day I still use it to message my girlfriend. It’s honestly the only way to super easily share photos/videos of something random.
Even with apps like Telegram, that have a built in camera function, it’s still too many button clicks. Snapchat is 3. It opens to the photo view, so you tap the shutter button > select friends > send.
With something like Telegram, once you open the app you need to tap on the conversation > photo button > camera view > shutter button > send
Even though it’s just 1 more button, it’s buried, and is overall slower and more cumbersome.
Not to mention no one wants their chat app feeds to be filled with a ton of random shit, or you may send something a tad embarrassing that you don’t want people to have a perfect history to look back on. YEs, screenshots exist, but that’s something you have to actively partake in. My girlfriend isn’t screenshotting my stupid selfies, but if I sent them through a different app she would have all the photos with no required input from her.
EDIT: also snapchat just makes a distinct noise. Yes, I could change the notification sound for Telegram, but then every message that came in would make some annoying sound. Snapchat makes a very distinct sound, so I don’t miss the messages, but also “batches” them, so if someone is typing out a long message in chunks, my phone isn’t just constantly beeping with every message sent.
I downloaded it when I downloaded tinder. To this day I still use it to message my girlfriend. It’s honestly the only way to super easily share photos/videos of something random.
Even with apps like Telegram, that have a built in camera function, it’s still too many button clicks. Snapchat is 3. It opens to the photo view, so you tap the shutter button > select friends > send.
With something like Telegram, once you open the app you need to tap on the conversation > photo button > camera view > shutter button > send
Even though it’s just 1 more button, it’s buried, and is overall slower and more cumbersome.
Not to mention no one wants their chat app feeds to be filled with a ton of random shit, or you may send something a tad embarrassing that you don’t want people to have a perfect history to look back on. YEs, screenshots exist, but that’s something you have to actively partake in. My girlfriend isn’t screenshotting my stupid selfies, but if I sent them through a different app she would have all the photos with no required input from her.
EDIT: also snapchat just makes a distinct noise. Yes, I could change the notification sound for Telegram, but then every message that came in would make some annoying sound. Snapchat makes a very distinct sound, so I don’t miss the messages, but also “batches” them, so if someone is typing out a long message in chunks, my phone isn’t just constantly beeping with every message sent.