I think it's safe to say we are all familiar with Snapchat. Whether you are a parent who witnesses their kid taking endless selfies or you are a teenager refusing to lose your hard-earned snap streak, we have all seen this popular, addictive app sweep the country.

Recently, the Piper Jaffray study "Taking Stock With Teens" polled approximately 6,500 U.S teens and found Snapchat is the most popular social network among the new generation. While I admit to owning this app, I must confess at times I wish it didn't exist.

Social media was originally established to enable friends and family to stay connected. Since 2004, people have used Facebook to post about their high school graduation, family vacation, new jobs, etc. However, with the rise of Snapchat, people now have a new medium to excessively share whatever they want through "temporary" 10-second stories.

It seems as though the quick and easy accessibility of Snapchat inclines users to broadcast every detail of their life. We now not only share the special, monumental moments, but we find it also necessary to share even the most mundane of instances. Lying in bed, getting out of bed, getting in the car, driving in the car... It's all on Snapchat and I don't understand why.

What's even more worrisome than Snapchatters sharing unnecessary details is Snapchatters sharing details they would be hesitant to share on other social media networks. How can it be that people who understand the detriment of posting videos of raging, red solo cup filled parties on Facebook are completely okay with posting it on Snapchat? The seemingly temporariness of Snapchat instills a dangerous sense of comfort within users, feeding them the misconception that their posted information actually disappears forever.

News flash. The following is reported from Snapchat's policies: When you send or receive messages using the Snapchat services, we temporarily process and store your images and videos in order to provide our services. Although we attempt to delete image data as soon as possible after the message is received and opened by the recipient (and after a certain period of time if they don't open the message), we cannot guarantee that the message contents will be deleted in every case.

Not as safe as we think, huh?

Despite its underlying sketchiness, people are still addicted to this app.

For years, society has preached about how we should spend less time texting and more time in person. However, even in our effort to create face-to-face interaction, our fingers are still glued to the screens of iPhones and Androids, tapping the latest story to watch. We can't go out to lunch without posting the artsy-est angle of our pizza with the coolest geotag.

Despite our attempts to be present in the real world, social media uncontrollably creeps into our palms. We are consumed.

Our Snapchat obsession is moving us toward a place in which more value is placed in the world of social media than in the real world. If we truly cherished our off-screen time, we wouldn't spoil precious moments by being absent. We wouldn't foolishly allow our FOMO to be intensified by glimpses of other people's lives. We wouldn't be controlled by the haunting thought, "If you didn't Snapchat it, did it really happen?"

While I am not saying Snapchat should be completely erased from our lives, I am saying it should be used in moderation.

You don't need everyone's eyes to feel seen.