Despite the obvious naughty uses, there are many perfectly legitimate reasons why you may want Snapchat a whirlwind, and they all focus on the capacity of the social application almost perfect to give you much control over the privacy of the photos and videos you send to your friends. Snapchat has become so popular so quickly that more than 200 million are being shared images per day .
If you want a photo application that has the functionality of filters whole fun or cloud storage gallery, this is not the app for you . But if you want to join the digital equivalent of a time bomb for every piece of paper that you send to your friends - why not ask us - you'll be glad to know that you will be able to Snapchat almost as iOS or Android faster than you can say " selfie . " Here's how .
1. Install Snapchat application . Launch the App Store or Google Play and install it. Kick your feet while transferring multiple applications.
Sign up for an account. Since you can not just use Facebook / Google / your favorite account existing social network to start the service, have new powers. Touch Up. You will be prompted to enter your e -mail address, password and your birthday. Touch Up.
Choose a user name. Select an account "unique identifier" that can not be changed once it is established . Your friends can use to find the service and the name of the user appears under his real name in your contact list Snapchat .
Snapchat will ask if you can enjoy the contact list of the phone. Unless you have a burning desire to add friends manually , we recommend granting this authorization Snapchat so you can start friend added. They also asked the iOS users to enter their mobile phone number to search , do not worry , fans of Android, so you can add this information later - as checking text has no problems for you .
Once Snapchat back with a list of contacts that you have identified as users of the service , you can add them as friends by clicking on the close button person -with-a - far right of your name. If you want to delete (or block ) later , just long press on their behalf until the submenu appears on the screen.
May Prepare to images (or video). Ready ? Once on the main screen Snapchat , take a picture is easy enough for those who have already used their mobile devices forward. If not, here's a quick guide : Tap an area of the image you want the phone to focus on. Press the circle to make a great picture. Hold the large circle around to take a video.
Keep your own photos. The icon to the right of the timer, a down arrow - to allow you to remove the image you just captured on the gallery traditional telephone. It is useful to save the shot for future use, as there is no other way to do once you have sent the image .
Set the time limit of the image. Stopwatchlike Tap the icon in the bottom left and you can define the exact moment you want your image to be available for a friend to see . You can go all the way wink - and - you -miss- it 1 second to a maximum of 10 seconds.
Add captions to images. Press the center of the image (Android) or " click to add Legend" description bar in iOS to do just that . If you feel a bit of nostalgia to "draw something ", you can also press the icon in the upper right corner of the screen to draw directly on the image with colors ranging from a virtual pen .
Send your photos . Click the arrow at the bottom right to get the vaccine ready for shipment . Appears to your friends list , select what you want your image, take a last breath of confidence and click the arrow that now appears in the lower right corner