pretty popular but have noticed it eats up data on your mobile plan pretty fast. Not a problem if connected to wifi, of course.

I am just not a fan of doing a lot of internet stuff on the phone.

Mainly because anything they post disappears...no “paper trail” of evidence.

ETA: That and, the app keeps track of their friends are at any given moment. It shows all of their little avatars on a map.

I've already texted back to the said friend that he might just email me videos.

I don’t let him keep his phone in his bedroom overnight...I get up well before he does and when I’m in the kitchen making coffee and feeding animals, I can hear his phone buzzing like a wasp nest with Snapchat alerts. It would make me crazy and I know it would be a distraction for him at night.

Free apps are worth what you pay for them. If there is no price for the product, YOU are the product.

I'm beginning to think I won't bother. It definitely won't go on my phone.

Private mode browser window.

But again, I do appreciate all the advice and comments here.

Even though I've been using computers for just over 50 years now, starting when I was an airline ticket agent at DCA, lo these many years ago, I am at this point not a very sophisticated user, and there are things I just don't want to be bothered with.

I'm pretty sure that Snapchat isn't available for macOS or Windows, just Android and iOS . So unless your "computer" is a tablet, you'd be using your phone.

That said, I had it on my phone for a several years and it was easy enough to ignore the garbage. It took me a while to figure out how to "save" content ... it was originally designed for once-and-done texts and video snippets.

It's been a while now, but it seemed way more innocuous than Facebook. E.g. paid content was pretty obvious and easily avoided.

I really, really don't like using my cell phone for anything other than phone calls and texts.

I really appreciate the advice, and right now I'm not inclined to download it.