Snapchat

With any new piece of software there can be a challenge in learning what it's capable of and also working your way around the interface. It's even more of a struggle when you are trying something not because it fulfils a need you have - like, for example, photo editing or Internet banking software - but because people have recommended you try it. 

I can remember when I first tried Twitter and I just could not get my head around it. In fact, I gave up on it quite promptly. And then a friend of mine, Neil, convinced me to give it another go and eventually I got the hang of it and learned to love it. (I made a lot of good friends through Twitter, too, and it's how I met the Minx.)

I suppose the issue I had was that initially I just could not understand what it was for or what purpose it served. It was the same with Snapchat (although I had a suspicion it was aimed at an audience with an interest in 'sexting'): I tried it, couldn't see the point of it and deleted the app. 

But then over the following couple of years it became the app of choice for young teenagers. It was the Minx who pointed out to me that while Abi might be slow to respond to texts, she always replied to Snapchats. And so I re-installed the app and it has been - for Abi and me, at least - the communications win that I was hoping for. 

Abi always likes to send a photo - as opposed to just text - which usually consists of he pulling a face and so, of course, I have learned to respond in kind.

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