What supposedly makes Snapchat enjoyable is that messages float away and disappear after one view. It’s ephemeral fun for sharing things that don’t matter too much. 
 
 Still, others like it because of the supposed privacy of disappearing messages. While you can take a screenshot of a Snapchat you are viewing, the app lets the sender know immediately that you’ve done that. But a new iOS app called Snap Save saves your Snapchat messages and doesn’t let the sender know. 
 
 After giving it a quick test, I can confirm the app works. First you log in with your Snapchat credentials, and then the app saves all of the messages you haven’t viewed yet. So after you view a Snapchat message, that picture or video is still there inside Snap Save for later viewing. The only two technical issues I see with the app is that sound didn’t work with my video messages and it logs you out of Snapchat each time you use it. You can also pay $3 to upgrade the app to show no advertising. 
 
 The app should give pause to anyone who actually thought Snapchat gave you any privacy. Essentially, if you’re still using Snapchat for “sexting” or sending pics you wouldn’t want to wind up online, it’s time to stop. Clearly, there are too many vulnerabilities to trust Snapchat for truly private messages. 
 
 Take a look at what the Snap Save interface looks like below. 
 
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 Snapchat, a rapidly growing messaging service, recently spurned an all-cash acquisition offer from Facebook for close to $3 billion, according to people briefed on the matter. 

 While Facebook had already dished out $1 billion to buy photo sharing social network Instagram, the company was hoping to make an even bigger offer for photo service Snapchat. 
 
 Facebook was prepared to offer around $3 billion to purchase Snapchat, but was turned down by Snapchat’s founders, according to a Wall Street Journal report that cited unnamed sources familiar with the matter. Why? Well, it seems Snapchat was entertaining plenty of lucrative offers, including an investment from Chinese e-commerce company Tencent Holdings that would value the company at around $4 billion, as VentureBeat reported back in October. 
 
 Snapchat is a kinda private photo sharing service where you send pictures to someone that disappear after a short time. This makes it perfect for sharing naughty photos with loved ones, which isn’t advertised by Snapchat but accounts somewhat for its popularity.) Plenty of people have pointed out that the photos aren’t guaranteed to “self destruct,” but that hasn’t stopped people from using the service. Snapchat currently has 100 million users who send over 350 million snaps (photo exchanges) daily. 
 
 WSJ’s sources also said that Snapchat founder and CEO Evan Spiegel won’t seriously consider any acquisition offer until at least next year.
– The tech world is abuzz today with a Wall Street Journal report that photo-sharing service Snapchat got a $3 billion buyout offer from Facebook—and said thanks, but no thanks. It seems that 23-year-old CEO Evan Spiegel isn't ready to even consider offers at this point given his company's growing number of users. Besides, Facebook may have undershot the mark—another offer reportedly in the work from China's Tencent Holdings values Snapchat at $4 billion, notes the Journal. Snapchat's niche is that it allows users to send photos and messages that soon self-destruct. (Though there's some doubt about that.) "This makes it perfect for sharing naughty photos with loved ones, which isn’t advertised by Snapchat, but can be somewhat attributed to its popularity," writes Tom Cheredar at Venture Beat. It can't hurt that Wall Street bankers like it, too. The company currently has 100 million users.