The obsession with social media, photos and portraying the ideal self has shown its teeth in the truest sense of the word, as teenagers go for plastic surgery to achieve the look of their favorite filters. What kind of world do we live in?
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First, Snapchat (as a company) is no longer Snapchat. Now it's just Snap. Second, and more importantly, Snap introduced Snapchat Spectacles, a pair of sunglasses for taking photos. The move is logical. Every second, more than 100 million active users of the Snapchat mobile application share more than nine thousand photos with each other. With the glasses, which will be available in three colors, it will be possible to capture both photos and videos.
The Snapchat application has established itself as one of those that we use every day. It is particularly unique because of its filters that allow us to transform into a completely different person. But the creators of Snapchat went one step further.
An incredible success story is being written again, but it got an unexpected twist. The Wall Street Journal reports that Evan Spiegel, the 23-year-old founder of the new social network Snapchat, turned down Facebook's incredible $3 billion offer.
We can hardly imagine life without social networks. Do you think you spend too much time on Facebook and Instagram? You are not the only one. The latest statistics are downright frightening. Check how many years of life an individual spends on average using social networks.