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It's pretty hard to find a kid that doesn't have Snapchat anymore. Basically being trained to hand over all their personal info to random strangers as soon as they're able to hold a cell phone.
And of course they hide the read messages for the end user to provide the illusion that it's "deleted" which I have to admit is brilliant. Extremely unethical but brilliant.
So many are also ignorant to ToS on even basic things like tvs and baby monitors. There's some next level creep in these things. Convenience over privacy, it's scary.
What do you mean by hide the messages?
When your messages on Snapchat are no longer visible to you or the person you’re talking to, they’re not deleted. They’re still on their servers. You just don’t see them anymore.