I know Snapchat has been around for a little while now, but in the past few weeks it’s seems like it’s really come into the mainstream. It’s almost impossible to take a step outside of my dorm without someone almost running into someone who is more worried about sending their friend a picture with a five second lifespan of what they look like when they walk outside to focus on actually walking. A few days ago I made an account because that’s what the cool kids are doing, but I couldn’t go any further than that because I don’t understand what the point is. It’s not that I have anything against the app itself, but as far as I can tell there are literally three things it’s useful for:

1. Naked pictures

2. Drew Barrymore’s character in 50 First Dates

3. Secret agents who need to get information about their mission and then have it self destruct after reading, but whose gadget department lost funding thanks to budget cuts and who now can only receive dossiers via free apps

That’s it. And considering that as far as I know no one I go to school with is either a CIA operative or Drew Barrymore, I don’t get why this has suddenly reached the mainstream. It’s like getting a hooker and then instead of having sex you just talk about what you had for lunch and how nice of a view you have from outside your window, and also the hooker has amnesia. What’s even more confusing is the same people who document every five minutes of their life via selfies on Instagram are suddenly deciding to spend seconds to minutes a day eyefucking their phone’s camera to send a picture that’s going to disappear forever. I thought society was too vain for this. I was almost willing to give it a try on the off chance wild boobs would appear but apparently you can’t even screenshot something without the other person getting notified. Maybe I’m missing something, but I think it’s more likely that everyone else is just stupid