My reason for liking Snapchat is a little bit different.<p>I&#x27;m a user of Facebook, but I really don&#x27;t like Facebook&#x27;s newsfeed. I find it to be a time sink that has a lot of advertisements and some amount of cultivation is required if you don&#x27;t want to be bogged down with every little thing your friends do. So basically I only use Facebook for messaging people whose phone number I don&#x27;t have, and for event tracking, as a lot of people in my social group use Facebook to make events, which I think is great.<p>But that leaves a small hole in my social media. I enjoy cyber stalking my friends because I like being aware of what people are doing with their lives. Snapchat (but specifically Snapchat stories) fills that need fairly perfectly. Just once or twice a day I can skim through my stories for a few minutes just to see what people have been up to that day.<p>I like it better than Twitter because there is too much promotion and general posting of stuff I&#x27;m not interested in (like the Facebook newsfeed) and I like it better than Instagram (for this purpose) because most users of Instagram seem to want to only put their best &#x2F; most interesting &#x2F; etc. photos on there, which isn&#x27;t exactly what I&#x27;m looking for.