Without a Trace...

I recently had the opportunity to read an article in Time magazine called Without a Trace. Now when I first read the title of this article I thought it was going to be about disappearance, or being gone without a trace never to be found. I was shocked to find out that the article was about an application for you cell phone called Tiger Text. Its basically an application for your phone that allows you to text someone a message than after a certain amount of time set by the person with the app automatically erases that message not only from your phone but also the other persons phone as well as any and all computers. The other person can not forward the message nor store it in their phone, the message never existed. Now the only reason why I think that this app would be use full to anyone would be for keeping secrets from someone or committing adultery, cheating in other words. "Our real concern was privacy," says Tiger Text founder Jeffrey Evans my opinion their real concern was teaching people how to keep secrets. Now lets say one of your kids has this app on their phone and they decided that they wanted to experiment with drugs or alcohol, the only way the parents are going to find out what kind of crowd their children are really hanging out with is if they are honest and that no secrets are kept between the parents and the child. With this app the children can talk to whoever they want about whatever they want without their parents finding out about it cause the message would be erased after a certain amount of time and then their is no stopping what kids will do. My parents used to look through my written letters to my friends to find out what was going on with me cause lets face it no teenager ever wants to talk to their parents about anything at that age, and you can't erase written letters. They other dis advantage to this app is lets say someone is being threatened by another person and the only proof they have is through the text messages. If the person has the tiger text app there is no way that they can prove that their life in in danger and, they could wind up dead or seriously injured. This app is nothing but bad in my eyes especially for those in relationships, think about it if your husband or boyfriend has this app on their phone you may want to think twice about why exactly they have this app. I encourage everyone to take warning to this app called Tiger Text it is for people who are trying to keep secrets and that can't and wont be honest with not only themselves, but with others around them.