exactly. someone letting off steam to family or friends is as old as time. heck. bar conversation even.

It usually (probably) isn't. Snapchat (meta) is reading your private messages and then sending problematic ones to the government.

If you don't like that, then you should be using a messaging system that's actually private. Which means, at a bare minimum, end-to-end encryption.

They're not private. Never were. Snapchat was always a lie.