After reading - destroy! How to use disposable photos, tweets, emails
Technologies / / December 19, 2019
A selection of services and applications in this article will help you to use one-time posts, tweets, photos. Then there are those that disappear immediately after reading or viewing.
One of the most popular features of modern digital technologies is their ability to eternal storage. But, at the same time, it is also a big problem, especially in those cases when it comes to living people.
Not all users like the fact that any of their photo, tweet, social network status message or email mail can rest up for decades in a database, and then there will be the light of day at the most inconvenient time. Therefore, in recent years more and more demand for services, allowing to work with the "disposable" information, that is, with such data that disappear after a specified time, or you events. Some of these services will be discussed in this article.
Photo and video
Snapchat
This is a special mobile app (iOS, Android), which is used for sharing photos and video. You can explicitly specify the circle of recipients of their image or clip, and set the time of their availability from one to ten seconds. After that you sent the message is deleted from the recipient as the device, and with Snapchat servers.
Price: Free
Price: Free
Secret.li
Secret.li - handy app for iOS, which gives you more control over your photos to Facebook. The app allows you to specify who can view your photos. You can also set the self-destruction of images. The developers promise to soon introduce a version for Android.
tweets
This is a free web service that allows you to send self-destructing, after a specified time, the tweets. You have to give access to your Twitter account, then the service will be able to control your tweets using special hashtags. hashtag species # 20m means that the active tweet will be removed after 20 minutes. Similarly, you can set other time intervals, using the letter d for days and h - for hours.
instant messaging
App for Android and iOS, allowing you to send text messages, pictures, audio and video files using encryption. In addition, all data sent by you may have a self-destruct feature, which allows you to completely remove them after a few seconds, hours or even days. There is even a protection against screenshots, too cunning to friends did not try to keep your message in the form of pictures.
Price: Free
mxHero is an extension for Chrome, which improves the functionality of Gmail. In order to protect your correspondence, it is able to convert letters into images that disappear after a specified time, you. We wrote about this extension in this review.
This is another way to send a person to a one-off message. Only in this case, the message text will be published on the page of the service, and you send the recipient only link to this page. After reading the message, it is destroyed and the link will automatically become invalid.
Summarizing, we can say that in the light of ever-increasing pressure on the privacy of users will naturally grow and response. So many developments of the described in the article, it can count on the popularity and development.
Do you like eternal life generated content in your digital universe?