Edge on Demand: The Snappening

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Β A story that’s affecting hundreds of thousands of people tonight, and possibly you, the Snappening. Β That’s what they’re calling a new hack of 200,000 Snapchat users. Β If you don’t know it, it’s the popular instant-message picture app all the kids are using.

Those pictures are supposed to disappear after the chat is over, which leads to a lot of very intimate pictures. Β But now, they’re being posted to sites like 4-Chan.

It sounds familiar, it’s almost exactly what happened to Hollywood celebrities a couple of weeks ago. Β The only difference is where the pictures came from. Β But the very pact that so many celebrities have taken naked pictures with their phones is kind of a cultural measure of what’s normal these days.

So do you think it’s now just a matter of course that everybody has nude pictures online?

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