Snapchat in a social media application that was developed by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown. It’s a photo-messaging app that allows users to take photos, recordings, to add text to the photos or draw on them, and than to send them to a selected list of recipients or to one recipient only. It’s called “Snapping” or sending a “Snap”. The sender has to set a time limit for how long the recipient or recipients can view the Snap. The time interval is from 1 to 10 seconds. After the limit expires, Snaps are hidden i.e. deleted from the recipients’ device and deleted from Snapchat’s servers. At least that’s what the [...]

Instagram, as we all know already, is an online mobile photo/video edit and sharing social media networking tool that allows users to take a photo or record a video, edit it with preset filters or other basic adjustments, and share it on a variety of social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, Flickr… Getting started: you create your profile with an email address, user name and password. Afterwards, if you want, you can connect your account with other social media accounts that you posses.

Instagram was launched in 2010 by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and gained popularity with over 100 million active users in 2012 and over 300 million in [...]