13/03/17 - Is Snapchat the sign of a post-literary future? John Naughton (53)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/12/snapchat-sign-of-post-literary-future

This article is an opinion based article talking about if Snapchat will be the future of creativity in the future. The writer believes that Snapchat has taken over the lives of the users which are under the age of 20 in a matter of a few years. In addition, it describes the concept of the actual app and describes it as weird to the older audience due to the concept of the app; All you're doing is taking a photo, making it seem a little bit creative and then sending it to your friends and once they've seen it, it will disappear from both phones. Later on, it states the question on "If Snapchat is beginning to assume the qualities of an oral medium?". This means that are Snapchat the key sign which is suggesting post-literary future, where we verbally communication by either taking a photo or even a video of ourselves. Finally, the also concludes with another question asking the audience if Donald Trump is "the first president of our post-literate age?".

• When television replaced print as the dominant medium, Postman (wickedly) argued that childhood effectively ended at age three, because kids of that age could understand popular television programmes – which explained why there were no remedial classes in TV viewing!
• “People wonder why their daughter is taking 10,000 photos a day,” he said. “What they don’t realise is that she isn’t preserving images. She’s talking.”
• You may have noticed a brief flurry of media interest in the stock market flotation of Snap, the company whose Snapchat app has taken the world – or at least that part of it under the age of 20 – by storm.

In my opinion, I do believe that Snapchat is the sign of post-literary future. One of the main reasons why I believe this is because of the fact that they are one of the only companies which have actually started this concept. Also, I believe that this post-literary, where people are beginning to message through the use of video and photos has already begun with many other social media accounts such as Instagram. I think that they have copied this concept from Snapchat as the layout etc is all the same thing. The reason why I believe that this is the case is because of the fact that people find typing a message to their friends or family has become far too long to type and if they were just recording themselves saying something will just make it a lot easier for themselves because it is also a quicker process in doing it.