Snap It Snapchat Projects for the Real World Carolyn Bernhardt
What Is Snapchat You're at a restaurant eating spaghetti You remember that your cousin loves pasta Your mom opens Snapchat on her smartphone and snaps a picture of you taking a bite Your mom adds text to the snap It says Enjoying your favorite meal Then she sends the snap to your cousin Your cousin sees she has a Snapchat notification and opens the app She laughs as she views the snap After ten seconds it disappears This is the fun of Snapchat Snapchat is a photo and video sharing app The messages users send are called snaps Users edit snaps they create by adding emoticons Geofilters and face changing effects Users can also draw on their snaps add captions and apply filters The possibilities are endless
Snapchatters can send snaps directly to friends Users can also make a string of snaps into a My Story for all of their friends to see Once opened snaps can only be viewed for up to ten seconds Then the images disappear But a user's My Story can be watched over and over for up to 24 hours Through Snapchat users from around the world share original and fun moments with each other
