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Or Snapchat. Did kids and teenagers have problems connecting with other kids and teenagers before Snapchat existed? I know I didn't. My parents didn't. Their parents didn't and so on. Until Snapchat showed us that we couldn't live without it, nobody had a problem connecting to each other.

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Snapchat's value prop has nothing to do with connecting with one another. It originally lay in its proclaimed transient nature and ability to communicate off the radar from parents/relatives which at the time had begun to "infest" other social media.

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