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Question from Rita: My granddaughter is in the Air Force and the last time she was in she opened a Snapchat account on my phone so I can chat with her while she’s overseas.
The name she gave me on there is “Grandma”.
That’s fine, but I’ve recently started talking to other people on Snapchat and I’d like to use my real name instead of Grandma.
Can you tell me how to change it? [Read more…]
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Snapchat is a popular social networking site that lets users send photos and videos to other Snapchat users that “self-destruct” after they they are viewed.
Many users assume that since Snapchat works that way, they can safely send “personal” pics and videos to their friends for quick, one-time viewing. But as explained in this post, that isn’t really the case at all.
What’s more, the folks at Snapchat have announced that there’s another kind of danger associated with using their service: third-party apps. [Read more…]
Snapchat has quickly become one of the most popular social networking sites on the web thanks to its “disappearing photos” feature, and it is especially popular among teenagers.
If you aren’t familiar with how Snapchat works, it lets you send a photo to a friend that will only remain on his/her screen for a given length of time, then it disappears.
That means you can share potentially embarrassing, or even incriminating photos with your friends with no risk attached, right?
Actually, nothing could be further from the truth. [Read more…]
Question from Hannah K.: I’ve been using Snapchat for a while but I heard that it’s not as safe as they claim it to be.
I’d like to delete my account but I can’t find a way to do it. I’ve tapped everything I can tap in the app on my iPhone, with no success.
Can you tell me what I need to do in order to completely delete my Snapchat account? [Read more…]
If you use the popular Snapchat messaging app there’s a good chance that your username and phone number could be in the hands of criminals right now.
Snapchat has announced that a recent security breach has allowed the usernames and phone numbers of 4.6 million registered users to be stolen by hackers.
While this breach isn’t anywhere near as serious as most of the ones that have been in the news lately, it could still cause problems for the unlucky victims. [Read more…]