What is your opinion of people keeping snakes as pets?

The same as with other pets...it's none of my business.

I just want them to let me know....so I know where to avoid. I hate snakes.
I never take a small child there.  I snakes can eat small children. I went to school with a guy who had it happen. My daughter did not really believe me until she heard it on Animal Planet. This post was edited by my2cents at October 28, 2017 7:30 PM MDT

I don't care what people keep as long as they know how to care for them.

They need to be wild.  Keeping them locked up in a small fish tank is animal cruelty in my opinion. 

So long as the snake is non-poisonous and is indigenous to the area where the person is keeping it it's fine. Otherwise either no, or HELL NO! But it is not, and never will be a "pet". Snakes can NEVER be domesticated, no matter what some idiots may think. 

Also, local laws may prohibit amateur snake charmers from keeping their subjects, need to check that too.

i stepped on a snake yesterday, he was okay tho

Everybody I know who kept a snake LOST IT. The bigger the snake, the longer it stayed lost, but it always eventually turned up. A six foot boa can go six to nine months without eating. Now you just figure out where in your apartment a six foot snake could hang out for six months, undetected.

We have a Ball Python who we got as a baby, and is now 14 years old. He eats three times a month, and its fun to watch him eat live rats. I like to wrap him around my neck while I clean out his cage. As long as you take good care of them, owning one is no problem to me, as with any pet.