Heard on the Street: Snapchat’s early focus on privacy should now pay dividends
Snapchat, a social-media platform long ridiculed for the sharing of risqué photos, today seems like one of the safer places for children online.
But there has always been more to Snapchat’s model than meets the eye. As early as 2012 Chief Executive Officer Evan Spiegel, a co-founder of the app, wrote in a blog post that Snapchat was designed to avoid some of the risks incurred on existing social media., resembling a kid trying to explain new technology to grandparents, Mr. Spiegel describes Snapchat as a new future for social media, allowing users to communicate through pictures what is happening now.
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