Finally, Someone Explains Snapchat

What is Snapchat? Why would anyone use it? These are questions that many of us, old and young, likely have. Now, we have some answers.

The third installment of The Skin Deep's Senior Orientation video series is perhaps the most helpful yet. You see, it's about Snapchat, the wildly popular social-media platform that's confusing to plenty of people well below retirement age, let alone senior citizens. Cisco, the Snapchat-savvy youngster tasked with explaining the photo- and video-sharing service to a group of Queens oldsters (and to us), makes the case for why you'd want to send a photo to someone, even though, per Snapchat's rules, the picture will disappear in just 10 seconds.

Of course, the conversation eventually leads to Snapchat's sexier uses, specifically the sending of "risqué" photos. These savvy seniors aren't scandalized by the notion, they're just a bit amazed at how far technology has come since they were that age where they might have wanted to send such a picture to a crush. By the end of the video, the Snapchat students don't exactly seem like they're going to rush out and download the app for themselves, but certainly some bridge of understanding has been built. Hopefully, at least, the next time their grandkids are yammering on about some kind of Snapchat drama, these Queens elders will know exactly what the kids are talking about—which is certainly more than a lot of people can say.

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