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Guy Hobeika is a YouTuber, Snapchat artist, and content creator who does pranks, challenges, reactions, and vlogs on his channel called “DRHOBS”. He started his YouTube career back in 2017 and now has 228K subscribers. What makes his channel special, however, is that he’s funny, innovative, and most importantly that he’s not shy about showing his Lebanese side. Guy was born and raised in Lebanon but is now based in Ottawa, Canada. During an interview with Apt613, he stated: “I grew up in Beirut, Lebanon. I stayed there until Grade 12 and then I moved here. As a kid. I had the idea of doing something different, to have an impact.” He also shared his future goals with them, saying: “I want to travel and do more Snapchat around the world. I’ve done it in Paris and London. I did a couple snaps in Lebanon.” “I live in Ottawa so most of my Snapchats are here. I want to travel and do a Snapchat character that travels around. I also want to travel around Canada, and show my followers.” Though he lived most of his life outside Lebanon, Guy is apparently still attached to his homeland and roots. It also seems that he’s attached to Lebanese food the most. His videos “Lebanese & Italian Swap Lunch Food”, “Lebanese & Asian Swap Breakfast Food”, “Lebanese vs. Mexican Sandwiches”, and other challenges of the like prove just that. His most recent video, posted on November 6th and gaining over nine thousand views so far, is titled: “Lebanese & Polish Swap Lunch Foods”. His goal was, of course, to have some delicious food, and to prove that the “Lebanese and Polish food culture are not that far apart”. He presented his Polish friend Lindsay with Lebanese classics like Falafel, Manakich, Koussa, Tabbouleh, Wara’…

PARENTS and carers of children at schools in Ross-shire are being urged to get clued up on a social media app following concerns about indecent images flagged by police.Police Scotland has told schools to be wary about a sharp rise in the number of incidents involving the sending and receiving of indecent images over the social media platform.Invergordon Academy has shared the information with parents, urging them to discuss Snapchat with their children and ensure they are using it appropriately.Snapchat is an American multimedia messaging app. One of the principal features of Snapchat is that pictures and messages are usually only available for a short time before they become inaccessible to their recipients.https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Finvergordonacademy.com%2F2020%2F11%2F06%2Fsnapchat-does-your-child-have-it-are-they-over-the-age-of-13-have-you-given-permission-for-them-to-use-it-are-they-using-it-safely%2F&h=AT2M8jpv21IA4eLEAzNRdDTfN7C-OeYm6afx9MWN3PKYxDxdXrYJ8GLkUyPEsq7cplfF1G49gp-8PtLMhnrUpaMLzq1A0l7ec4dtz_MGxnkwix09TBDslMxPZOKL4jY&s=1The warning reminds parents that children under the age of 13 should not have the app on their phones and that children between the ages of 13-17 should have parental permission to use the app.It adds: "If you have any concerns regarding your child’s use of social media you can request that the account is deleted."The school also flags a number of sites for more information.Snapchat Safety Centre: http://www.snapchat.com/safetyA Parents’ Guide to Snapchat from ConnectSafely: http://www.connectsafely.org/wp-content/uploads/snapchat_parents_guide.pdfHaving trouble getting out to pick up your weekly newspaper? Get a digital copy of the Ross-shire Journal delivered straight to your inbox every week and read the full newspaper on your desktop, phone or laptop. SUBSCRIBE NOW

On Tuesday I deleted all of my social media. There were many factors behind this sudden decision, but the overarching one was that I felt like I had to pretend to be something I wasn’t always: I had to pretend to be okay.  Although this might not be the healthiest thing, I generally keep a pretty good wall up around my emotions, which leads most people to believe that I’m totally fine even when I’m hurting deep inside. My fake and real happy faces are almost identical, and I don’t usually express my emotions verbally, other than to a handful of people. Being on social media — primarily on Snapchat and Instagram — made me feel like I had to smile in pictures and keep small-talk conversations going when all I wanted to do was crawl under the covers and never leave. Ignoring people’s messages, or “leaving them on read,” was not an option either, since that could be misconstrued as being passive-aggressive. In reality, I simply did not have the mental capacity to have any sort of social interaction with anyone. My primary concern with deleting most of the easiest ways to keep in touch with people was that I would have no human contact at all outside of my roommate and parents. Nevertheless, just over a week ago I deleted Instagram and Snapchat off my phone and logged out of my Facebook and Twitter accounts. For two days I felt total peace and could truly focus on myself without interruption or pressure from anyone else to act any way that I wasn’t actually feeling, even for a second. On the third day, as we neared the weekend, I needed to log into Instagram to check on some work-related things and into Snapchat to contact someone urgently whose phone…

A Grundy County grand jury indicted a man on two sex offenses on November 4th. Noah Smukler, 23, of Skokie was charged with two counts of traveling to a meet a minor, both class three felonies.The indictment alleges that Smukler knowingly traveled within Illinois for the purpose of engaging in a sexual act with a 15-year-old child after using Snapchat to entice the juvenile for that purpose.The incident occurred somewhere in the Coal City area on July 26th of 2020. The Coal City Police Department arrested Smukler in late September and he remains free on a $25,000 bond.

By Katie Deighton Facebook Inc.'s WhatsApp has introduced a setting that automatically deletes messages after seven days, a move aimed at encouraging users to feel comfortable chatting in confidence. The feature, which as of this month can be applied to both one-to-one and group chats, is meant to make chats feel more like face-to-face conversations than imperishable email threads or text messages do, said Zafir Khan, product manager at WhatsApp. Records of most in-person conversations don't exist forever, so conversations on WhatsApp shouldn't have to either, according to Mr. Khan. "Things like text messages had a very different use case over a decade ago -- they were used more for one-off coordination, because of the limited characters and the spottiness of connection," he said. "But now smartphones have proliferated and people always have their phones with them, they're using WhatsApp messaging for very deep and intimate conversations." That led WhatsApp's product team to rethink its assumptions about how the service should work, Mr. Khan said. They hope the new feature will encourage more people to host personal conversations on the platform, confident that their messages won't come back to haunt them, he said. The feature may also help Facebook boost engagement on WhatsApp, according to Miguel Alvarez, global chief technology officer of digital agency AnalogFolk Ltd. He said users may check in on conversations more if they are afraid of missing something important. People in group chats may also be motivated to chime in to keep WhatsApp conversations from going empty, he added. "Data and privacy are clearly important in this," Mr. Alvarez said, "but really it almost forces users to keep a conversation ongoing." The concept of sending a disappearing message was popularized in the early 2010s by Snapchat, which let users send ephemeral photos to their contacts. Snapchat's…

Snapchat – the multimedia messaging app has recently released a new feature. The new update allows creators and users to post the number of followers they have. The entertainment company Mashable, cited a report from Tubefilter, which reveals that users will be having the option to view their subscriber count. ALSO READ: Ministry of Information & Technology bans PUBG A Snapchat spokesperson told Tubefilter, “We have listened to feedback from our community of creators and many of them have expressed interest in having the opportunity to show that their community on Snapchat is growing.” The spokesperson further added that “… we are giving creators the ability to make the number of followers visible on their public profiles … We understand that not all creators want public statistics to be visible to their fans. Therefore, creators can choose to enable and disable this statistic according to their needs in their settings ”. As reported by Mashable, the app Snapchat has released new features to make its platform much more fun and interactive. Last month, the app also launched a new feature called Sounds. This allows iOS Snapchat users around the world to add music to their Snaps from a music catalogue containing songs by new and established artists. As part of this updated feature, whenever an app user receives a snapshot with sounds, they can swipe up to view features like album art, song title, and artist name. Moreover, in the new update, there will also be a “Play This Song” tab where users can listen to the entire song on any of the music streaming platforms which includes Spotify, Apple Music and SoundCloud. (ANI) For more such stories on Technology, keep reading ZEE5. ALSO READ: Snapchat news: New lens helps users celebrate Halloween

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A La Grange man was arrested after police said he raped a female victim he met on Snapchat.According to an arrest report, the incident took place in the overnight hours from Tuesday, Nov. 3, to Wednesday, Nov. 4.Kentucky State Police said the victim told them that she met 26-year-old Moises Cruz Cortes on Snapchat. On Tuesday, he drove to her Lexington home and picked her up, taking her back to his home in La Grange.While there, she said they smoked marijuana and took pills.She eventually passed out, according to the arrest report, and awoke to find Cortes fondling her sexually. He then began choking her, and she lost consciousness. She said when she woke up again, Cortes was having sexual intercourse with her and began choking her again.The victim told police that she was unable to stop Cortes because she couldn't maintain consciousness.On Wednesday, the next day, the victim said Cortes drove her back to her Lexington home, apologizing on the way for choking her as hard as he did.When she got home, the victim contacted police and she was examined at UK Healthcare. Police said they could see visible marks on her neck consistent with the victim being choked.According to the arrest report, the victim gave officers a description of Cortes' home and vehicle, and police served a search warrant at his house. Police say they found "numerous illegal substances and drug paraphernalia" in his bedroom, which they said was as the victim described it.During a police interview, Cortes admitted to meeting the victim on Snapchat and picking her up in Lexington, according to the arrest report. He also said she spent the night and the two drank alcohol and smoked marijuana. He declined to answer if they had engaged in sexual activity, according to the arrest…

News 12 StaffNov 04, 2020, 5:37pm ESTUpdated on:Nov 04, 2020, 5:37pm ESTSnapchat will now allow users to publicize how many followers they have. The company says feedback from users sparked the latest change.Data analytics firm Palantir is in talks with Britain to provide software for COVID-19 contact tracing in England. The app will alert users when they've been in close contact with someone with the coronavirus.Automaker Waymo is pulling its cars out of San Francisco to avoid potential election unrest, reportedly making the decision to stop running its autonomous vehicles on Tuesday and Wednesday.

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FONTANA (CBSLA) — Police say a Fontana man arrested on suspicion of possessing child pornography has been posing as a 16-year-old boy to talk to underage girls on several social media outlets. (credit: Fontana Police Department) Edgar Carrizalez, 27, was arrested on Oct. 28 after Fontana’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force was notified by authorities in Grapevine, Texas that they were investigating a case involving a 12-year-old girl who had been contacted on Snapchat and was sent an unsolicited, vulgar sexual photo. The investigation led to Carrizalez, who was arrested at his home in the 9300 block of Kempster Avenue in Fontana. A parole search uncovered child pornography on his electronic devices, and evidence that Carrizalez had been posing as a 16-year-old boy in order to communicate with teens on social media platforms, including Snapchat, Kik, Tik Tok, Discord, Frog What’s Up Friend, and Spotafriend Meet Teens App, according to Fontana police. Investigators say Carrizalez would often use the screen names Kekid45 and Kyleyou1 on these platforms. Carrizalez is being held without bail. He is scheduled to make his first court appearance in this case on Wednesday. Detectives say they believe there are more victims in this investigation. Anyone with information about Carrizalez can contact Fontana police’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force at hkouroubacalis@fontana.org. CBSLA Staff Comments