An Analog Week

It was a crisis of major proportion. My daughter left her iPhone at her Dad's house and had to survive the week without her "baby." It was awful. We seriously considered a methadone clinic for the severe withdrawal symptoms. It had to be announced on Facebook.

So, you can imagine the excitement at my house when the iPhone was finally returned this evening. As it flickered back to life after a 5 minute charge, the pings accelerated with increasing frequency. What had she missed....in the day it took her to alert all her friends that she was untethered?
17 Snapchats
12 Texts
0 phone calls
and too many Facebook updates and Instagrams to count.

 I knew Snapchat was a hit with teens but I  had no idea that it had become the dominant social network on mobile.

For those unfamiliar with Snapchat, it's a mobile app which kids use to “chat” with friends using photos (or videos) with captions. Sort of like texting with pictures.  The sender can choose how long the message will be visible -- up to 10 seconds -- before it self-destructs.

It's been getting a bad rap as a medium for sexting so I reminded my daughter; "No T&A shots please. Remember Anthony Wiener"  She rolled her eyes and said: "Mom, that was so 7th Grade."