Parents still may be tempted to give unsolicited advice, do whatever's needed to protect kids from harm — and remind them to get car insurance.

And grown kids may be frustrating friends who don't return parents' calls, cancel dates at the last minute or text their buddies while dining with the family.

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The philosophy behind this unconventional landing place is that chats all begin with the conversation, and in Snapchat, images do the talking.

I feel like my tongue, voicebox and mind have gone into a deep freeze.En español | When your children reach their 20s, the balance of connection between you and them seesaws.The challenge becomes how to find common ground without overstepping the comfortable boundaries between you. To the 310 million monthly active Snapchat users, many of whom are in their teens and early 20s: Sorry, but old people are about to crash your party. And that is exactly why the app is exploding in use, even recently overtaking Twitter in terms of daily users.(I'm not even 40, and I'm one of them.) To the hip kids who have grown up with the four-year-old short video sharing app: It is with regrets that admittedly I may even incorrectly explain some of how this service—with its myriad of odd features—works. A social network where people share photos and short videos for just 24 hours, Snapchat is the answer to the Internet's problem of never forgetting.