Recently, I was struck by an odd phenomena: while using Snapchat an alias that normally belonged to my mother appeared to have added me. Inspired, I added the user back and sent a snap in reply. Perhaps unsurprisingly (or is that surprisingly?!), my mother responded. What makes this event interesting is that my mother, as you might expect, is far and away older than most of my peers. However, when confronted about why they are not on Snapchat, work and school colleagues often give excuses that