Week 7: Image Sharing and Creative Commons Reflection

For Week 7’s Reflect activity we are required to answer whether we can see an application for photo sharing in our personal life or my personal professional life.

I am an avid user of the application Snapchat. Snapchat is an application that allows users to share photos and videos with their friends who have it. With Snapchat, users can add captions and send it to a friend or more than one friend. What differentiates Snapchat from other image sharing applications is that with Snapchat, users can designate the amount of seconds (out of 10 seconds) they intend for their receiver to view it for. Nevertheless the application creates a good connection between friends.

 

With Snapchat, images are not saved so users really have the designated amount of seconds to view the image received and decide whether to reply or not. Therefore, the captions added to photos are basically the comments made when users are interacting with snapchat.  In my professional life, I would not choose to use Snapchat due to the fact that I use it for entertainment.  I don’t see how Snapchat can contribute to a person professional life unless it was being used to expose a crime or an accident. Since users can videos to many users, one can capture a video and send it to many others. The receivers will only view the videos once thereby giving them an idea of what the video is about. However, if users can only view the video or image once, there is no point using Snapchat. In this instance other image sharing applications can be used to share the image results between users.