The argument of whether social media applications should have access to your photos or not has been around for quite some time. Actually, it just comes with the usage social media itself. With Twitter and Instagram, where you post the content to the whole community, you give everyone access to your posts. The only way around this is the selection of protecting your content, or making it private.

The thing that makes this questionable is that private or not, the producers and workers of these apps have access to what you post. Regardless of what you believe, it all comes back to when you pressed that button that said “Agree to Terms and Conditions”.

The point of the terms and conditions is to outline every detail so that the user of the app can have a thorough understanding of what they are getting into.

Yes they are long, but if you truly are concerned with your privacy that much, I would suggest reading up.

For example, the social media application Snapchat uses photos as a method of communication between people. You can post things to your story, allowing all your friends to see what you are up to. You can also have private conversations with people by sending captioned photos back and forth.

The people who work for Snapchat have full access to what you send and post on your story. This is in the terms and conditions, yet people still feel uncomfortable. At the end of the day, there are millions of photos being sent back and forth on this app. I doubt Snapchat employees are picking apart every single photo being sent, let alone one individual’s.

The access is to insure the safety of others and make sure everyone is following the law.

Snapchat is no stranger to the transfer of nude photography, and in many cases underage nude photography. There are other applications out there to save the time-limited photos straight to someone’s camera roll.

That means that if someone is trying to send a second long nude photo, it can end up giving them a lifetime of regret. The best way to overcome the fear of social media having access to your content is to not send and post regrettable things.

Always be careful what you share because there’s always a way for it to get around. It’s not the app’s employees you should be worrying about, they’re just doing their job to insure the best social media environment possible.