Like something out of "Mission Impossible," there is now a smartphone application that lets you send picture messages that delete themselves in seconds. The app is called Snapchat. It lets you take a picture, send it to your friends and then it just goes away. But the question is: Do they really disappear?

The app has teens buzzing and experts warning that Snapchat doesn't give you a free pass to send racy pictures.

We spoke to three Ohio Valley teenagers, Justin Callarik, Claire Slavik and Shae Cenkus. They use the app and told us everything there is to know about Snapchat.

"When it came out there were rumors saying that it's the 'Sexting App.' explained Slavik." And people were surprised when they heard that. I think because they think… 'Well, we don't do that.'"

But the reviews for Snapchat paint somewhat of a different picture. Those reviews, which are published by other users, say things like, "Send me snaps girls," "let's be crazy," and even things like "I do dirties." It's clear that some of the pictures being sent aren't always rated G.

"People think you can send whatever you want because it gets deleted right away," said Callarik.

"Of course whenever you think of an app, like of people sending pictures… automatically adults are going to think 'Oh they're sexting,' like they are sending bad pictures, but in reality… teenagers aren't all like that," explained Cenkus.

If you are just sending pointless pictures or just silly faces to your friends, the app is harmless. Trouble comes when the snaps get a little more explicit.

Chief technology officer at West Liberty University, Jim Clark, did some Snapchat research of his own and I asked him if there is anything you should know.

"You can just have another phone or a camera and you can literally within ... Someone opens up their snap chat session for 10 seconds, you've got the picture it's there for 10 seconds, take a picture of it. Which is a crude method, but you just take a picture of it and now you've got the digital image of it and it's there forever," said Clark.

Or even easier, a screen shot. I tried taking a screen shot of the snaps I was sent and every time I was successful in capturing and saving the image.

"It's in much the same way as we would with email or anything else once we send an email or once we send a communication it's detectable it’s out in the public frame it can be seen," said Clark.

"Just don't take something that could be fun and make it bad for everyone because it's not," said Cenkus. "Nobody really uses it that way."

In the privacy policy for Snapchat, which can be found online or on the app itself, the creators note that even though the app attempts to delete every image exchanged, there is no guarantee that the picture no longer exists and that all messages are sent at the risk of the user.