Entry #1: Snap Chat

Now don't get me wrong, I am usually pretty quick when it comes to technology. However, I wasn't the quickest on the uptake when it came to Snap Chat. Apparently I am one of the last human beings to download and start using it as a form of communication. To be honest, I still don't quite get its real life application, but hey, I'll try new things. I only see a few problems with it as of right now. First and foremost, it is a nightmare for those guys who have girlfriends who consistently ask "What are you up to?". In a normal text message one could say, "I'm working out at the gym" or "Nothing too exciting, just saving a baby from a tree," and either of those responses could generally be accepted as fact. But now when a girl Snap Chats you the question,"What are you up to?" with a cute puppy face you've got two options. 1. Quickly drive to the gym and or find a baby in a tree or 2. You take a picture of yourself sitting on your lazy ass watching Storage Wars or some other show on the History Channel that contains the word "Storage" in its title. This is just one complaint I have for the app. Maybe if they added a "photo tweak" option where you could throw in a fancy background and a picture filter to spice up your otherwise boring life it would be more appealing to guys like me who are either playing X-box or sitting in front of a computer screen doing nothing exciting or  picture worthy. The only other problem I find myself facing with Snap Chat is the fact that its like texting only with pictures. And if you are any other normal teenage boy you know how much thought actually goes into a text. Girls don't want a guy who replies with only one or two word answers, however they also don't care about our accomplishments pertaining to video games or how we completed the milk challenge by two seconds before throwing up everything we had eaten prior to chugging a gallon of milk within one hour. With all this to think about, guys tend to have a tough time finding a balanced formula of which to maintain a text conversation with a female that can last between 4 minutes and 8 hours (depending on the female texting, her current mood, and of course that special gift mother nature brings every month....and by that I mean that day she is forced to put gas in her car before it spontaneously combusts because she's been riding on "E" for the past 3 weeks (if you thought I was going to bring up another sensitive topic about women in my first blog you were wrongly mistaken). With the addition of adding photos to a conversation it is a matter of how long men can hold out before women just conclude that we should corale men into barns and only use them for fertilization because they obviously aren't capable of coming up with a million different poses to do when all they are really "up to" is sitting on our asses playing video games. Snap Chat is a great app that allows us to send those "creeper" pics that say "I see you" while sitting in class. However, past that initial message no further conversation through the use of pictures should be used. Soon enough news paper headlines may be reading "Teen Wreaks Car While Using Snap Chat," if popularity continues. Whatever happened to good ole' text messaging with the dial pads that had three letters per number and you had to spell everything out or pray to God that T-9 recognized the word you were trying to spell? This world is entering a new age, an age where apps just make men seem stupid and put women in a sense of control, which we all know simply isn't true. However, that is a topic for another time.