Written by: 
Marie-Liese George

Snapchat will feature Jamaica as a Live Story today! Jamaicans are exicted and are sharing hilarious and serious opinions about what should be featured.
A Live Story is, in Snapchat's words: "a curated stream of user submitted Snaps from various locations and events." Today the location is Jamaica.

Snapchat is a new social media craze where you send videos and pictures that disappear in seconds. You can also post Snap Stories of whatever you feel like sharing with your followers. This app combines the need for attention and instant gratification with our technology-induced short attention spans.

Read how Jamaicans are reacting now that we are in the spotlight.

Others saw the more serious side of the attention, the fact that what's shown to the world may be filtered to fit the ideal of Jamaica marketed to tourists:

And then of course politics and suffering were humorously brought in:

Don't forget to check it out!