I donno but taking a screenshot and posting it on FB isn't very difficult. Do people really believe the images 'disappear'?
I think this gets to the tone of the article, as communicating this way implies a level of trust and/or intimacy usually reserved for analog methods.
Snapchat is brilliant in this regard. I think we're going to see a lot more communication platforms built on limitations rather than sprawling features.
-- This would be an interesting brainstorm.
AOL -> Myspace -> Facebook -> Twitter -> Pinterest -> Vine or whatever comes next has always been a dialog of editorializing and limiting communication into models that are smaller and easier for digital communication.
The problem with the internet was different that any other communication technology of the last thousand years. Unlike books, phones or even TV, it provided too much access and too vast an audience with boundless communication (i.e. AOL Mass chatrooms) and people felt lost and faceless in the masses. Social media has been an exercise in limitation to solve that problem since its inception.
What about email with only a 140 character subject line? Who would want to write more than that anyway?
Teens doing teen-things is fine. But the sense of security they think they're getting is false.
This app certainly discourages that collecting of pics though. It's not like sexting where they are just sitting in the texting logs. Yes, people can work around the restrictions but the key is they have to work around it.