As parents try to keep up with the technology their children are using, several schools around Long Island have recently had issues with kids using Snapchat—as well as Instagram , texting and other sites—to send racy pictures and other inappropriate content. What is Snapchat? Currently one of the most popular social apps among young students, Snapchat allows users to send a photo, video, image or message that vanishes just seconds after the recipient opens it. This leads many to have a false sense of security in sending nude pictures and other inappropriate messages with the feeling that they will be gone forever after opened.
Thousands of Snapchat videos and photos leaked online
Manatee teen blackmailed girls for naked pictures on Snapchat, deputies say | WFLA
Some boasted about getting paid thousands of dollars and many are getting just as many views. That account has since been shut down. The concern for parents is whether their children will try to do the same thing without them even knowing. Again, most parents do not even know if their son or daughter has a premium account.
Manatee teen blackmailed girls for naked pictures on Snapchat, deputies say
Bailey Terry is a year-old Caucasian man from Manatee County. But authorities say on Snapchat, he claimed he was a year-old black man. Manatee County deputies say he met a year-old California girl online in and they began sending nude photos to each other. She would send real pictures, while Terry would copy lewd images from Google and send them back, authorities say.
Jump to navigation. Videos and pictures of as many as , teenagers posted via the Snapchat service and stored on a third party website have been put online, apparently by the same people who were behind the posting of nude celebrity photos in August. The photos and videos were captured after some users of Snapchat were tempted into using a site called Snapsaved. That offered to let them use the service on a website on a desktop computer, rather than just on a mobile phone. It is suspected, but not so far proven, that those behind the scam are linked to those responsible for the collection and posting in August of personal and often nude photos taken by hundreds of celebrities, including Jennifer Lawrence and Kim Kardashian.