24 Hours in Snapchat

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Millions of young people in the UK live their life in the social media app Snapchat. They tell Monika Plaha about their experiences, good... and bad.

Warning: There are descriptions of a sexual and violent nature in this programme  

The NSPCC claim that Snapchat is the leading social media platform when it comes to children and young people being groomed online. 

Millions of young people share their lives on it - its where they hang out with friends and share funny videos.  But amongst the warmth, friendship and humour they describe it as an online wildfire of violence and crime with private sexual content being shared without consent. 

So what is it like inside this world? Monika Plaha meets three people who tell her what its like living their lives on Snapchat.

Presenter: Monika Plaha
Producers: Monika Plaha and Jay Unger
Sound Designer: Louis Blatherwick

An Audio North Production for BBC Radio 4 

Details of help and support for some of the issues in this programme, including feelings of despair are available at www.bbc.co.uk/actionline.

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