It has been more than a year since Facebook first launched its Facebook Poke app and honestly speaking, this app is already in the app graveyard of all forgotten apps.

Call it one-of-its-kind but Facebook Poke app is very similar to the photo-messaging app, Snapchat.

For those who have used both the apps they would find resemblance between the two, one major resemblance that both the apps let the users send and view pictures and videos that self destruct within a few seconds; Facebook Poke - you can set a limit of 1, 3, 5 or 10 seconds and Snapchat - you can set any limit between 1 and 10 seconds.

When last year, Snapchat turned down Facebook's $3 billion offer to buy the company out, it became the talk of the town and somehow it surely knows how to stay in the headlines but this time the reason behind it being in the headlines is not totally Snapchat's fault.

On late New Year's eve, an anonymous group of hackers posted up to 4.6 million Snapchat users' usernames and phone numbers accounts on a website called SnapchatDB.info, which wanted to send the company a message.

"Our motivation behind the release was to raise the public awareness around the issue, and also put public pressure on Snapchat to get this exploit fixed. It is understandable that tech start-ups have limited resources but security and privacy should not be a secondary goal. Security matters as much as user experience does," the hackers told The Verge.

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That's some interesting tech potpourri. Most of us may not even have heard of this startup that Twitter acquired. That's precisely because the parent company has given its takeover firm an open leash to function autonomously.Well as of tommorrow the situation may just change for the better.

The rumors mills in the cyber world, supported by today's latest tweet from Twitter's CEO Dick Costolo hinting at Vine's app launch on Apple's App store without any kind of Twitter branding on it. Interestingly, before Twitter took over the start up Vine was a "standalone iOS app".

First it was Instagram that went down for $1bn last year. Could Snapchat be the next acquisition-victim in the social media industry? You never know, it just could be.

But what is this Snapchat?

Most of us are so much into Facebook, Twitter and Google+ that the other small fish in the background practically get gobbled up. Except this one, that's got the industry shaking and the parents of tweens twitching their eyebrows in despair.

Like Instagram, Snapchat is a photo sharing app where users, mostly teens are trying to have some racy fun by sending and sharing videos and photos. So what's new in this? The catch is that the teens can now play safe from sneaky parents, because the photos are self-destructive!