Tag: disposable media

• Social Media

  When disposable networks introduce permanence  

  For more than a year I’ve been downloading my Snapchat stories each day, then uploading them to Facebook (with Privacy settings at “Just Me”). While I love the concept of disposable media and data impermanence, I also wanted to save a lot of those memories to relive later. Especially of…

  July 6, 2016
• Social Media

  Snapchat second only to Facebook in photo sharing apps

  I’ve been a vocal advocate (opposite of critic!) for disposable media apps like Snapchat and Facebook for some time. A recent report from BI Intelligence shows that among the 544 million daily photos uploaded in May 2013, 28 percent of those were Snapchat — beating Instagram and Flickr handily.  …

  June 6, 2013