[dcope]

That doesn't surprise me too much. Visually, the Poke app does look much more appealing however the big win is obviously the Facebook integration. Snapchat requires you to find friends by their phone number or by manually entering their username. The Poke application on the other hand allows you instant access to your entire friends list. In my opinion, the Poke app will obliterate Snapchat because of this.

[capsule_toy]

I have a phone number for everyone I want to snapchat with, but a couple of those people are not on Facebook. I can't imagine someone not having a smartphone in my demographic but not having FB, while rare, does happen.

[dcope]

Sure, but that requires users typing in their phone number and having Snapchat send a text to verify. I don't know about your friends, but I know for sure mine would not do that. In my opinion, Facebook is much more reputable than Snapchat.