Path will soon be offering its own ephemeral messaging service

The trend toward ephemeral messaging is gaining even more steam, after private social network Path announced that its users will get the ability to have their messages disappear after a specific time has elapsed, starting next week. “To further improve your privacy when messaging on Path, all messages will become 24 hour ephemeral starting June 11th,” according to an internal message from the company to its users, which many discovered on Friday. On Path’s support page detailing the change, it adds: “This means that all new messages will be automatically removed from our servers 24 hours after being sent, including your old messages. All messages downloaded from our servers will be kept on your device until you log out, uninstall or update to a new version of Path.”