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Facebook mistakenly hit the button to unleash a new app called Slingshot that's similar to Snapchat – clumsily releasing it early on Apple's iTunes store yesterday. The Menlo Park biz has yanked the software, which allows you to send self-destructing sexts photos to tease friends. Gizmodo noted Slingshot requires a little more …

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  1. Kevin Johnston

    Really?

    You have to send a picture back before you can look at the pointless kitten photo someone sent you?

    So double up the dross to try to kill the backhaul

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Really?

      Presumably it will be possibly to seriously misjudge a relationship and send a picture of your external genitalia before realising you have been sent a cute cat picture. Or vice versa.

      1. frank ly

        Re: Really?

        So the best thing to do is reply with a picture of a cat's genitalia at first, then you can always say it was meant as a joke? (Social etiquette in the modern world confuses me.)

        1. ratfox

          Send 1x1.gif

          Actually, forget that. Don't send anything. You probably don't want to see the pic you received anyway…

      2. 's water music

        Re: Really?

        Presumably it will be possibly to seriously misjudge a relationship and send a picture of your external genitalia before realising you have been sent a cute cat picture. Or vice versa.

        Always stick to internal pics. There is more plausible deniability with an I sat on my webcam... story if the pussy pic turns out to include a tail.

        wait, wat?

    2. thomas k.

      Will no one think of the kittens?

      Kitten photos with penises scrawled on them?! Oh, the horror!

      1. Steven Raith

        Re: Will no one think of the kittens?

        Jane --> Steven; Subject : Cock

        "Do you wish to send a picture back?"

        *fumbles with jeans, takes pic, sends*

        "Do you now wish to open Janes picture?" <yes>

        <image of rooster>

        "Damn. That's the sixth time this week"

    3. petur
      FAIL

      Re: Really?

      I think I'll send a picture of my PrintScreen key back.... Good luck deleting my local copy.

      Wonder how many teens are going to fall for this scam.

  2. Arachnoid

    Self desruct?

    I take it they have disabled Kitty Kats screen print then?

    As to viewing the image how is the last person in the discussion to view their image if they dont send one?

  3. Mage Silver badge

    Delusional

    Snap it with another phone.

  4. Big_Ted
    WTF?

    Oh God

    I have to respond before I see what I have to respond to ?

    So I send a pic, open the one received, and then respond. I then get a pic for them to open the first one I replied with and a second for the second proper responce......

    I can imagine that within a few exchanges I will need to send dozens of replies to open all the pics I received just to find the one I want to open.......

    What idiot thought this one up ? ? ?

    1. Pascal Monett Silver badge

      Re: What idiot thought this one up ?

      The guy placing the ads that come with the notifications, obviously ;)

  5. Vladimir Plouzhnikov

    Oi, look -

    - Boobies!!

    1. Arachnoid

      Re: Oi, look -

      And a fine pair too sir

    2. I ain't Spartacus Gold badge
      Devil

      Re: Oi, look -

      My Dad went on holiday with my Mum. He took some excellent photos of boobies while he was there, which were so good they went up on the sitting room wall.

      Eeeewww. You disgust me! They went to the Galapagos Islands you filthy beast.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: Oi, look -

        My Dad went on holiday with my Mum. He took some excellent photos of boobies while he was there, which were so good they went up on the sitting room wall.

        Eeeewww. You disgust me! They went to the Galapagos Islands you filthy beast.

        Pfft. Those weren't the pictures I took when I went on holiday with your mum...

        :-)

        1. I ain't Spartacus Gold badge
          Happy

          Re: Oi, look -

          Yeah, but your Mum's so fat that she has an event horizon.

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        2. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          Re: Oi, look -

          ...your mum...

          3 thumbs up? Not arf!

          fnarr.

  6. A Long Fellow

    re Big Boobies: Obligatory "'Allo, 'Allo" Reference

    Where's the Fallen Madonna?

    1. Arachnoid

      Re: re Big Boobies: Obligatory "'Allo, 'Allo" Reference

      The Colonel as it!

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