Why I love Snapchat
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Why I love Snapchat
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#2"then it disappears"
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#3"The cost of content creation is extremely low, and Snapchat makes it fun to think about what aspects of what I’m doing every day might be cool for other people to see."
But what is the reward of content creation?
Honest question. How do a user feel their effort in posting was worthy? I never used Snapchat, so I don't get it much. Although I'm for sure not dismissive as some, I just never tried it.
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#4I've had a similar experience, opening the app a couple times over the years and never using it in any way. I just don't get it. Maybe it's time for another try.
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#5"The cost of content creation is extremely low, and Snapchat makes it fun to think about what aspects of what I’m doing every day might be cool for other people to see." But what is the reward of content creation? Honest question. How do a user feel their effort in posting was worthy? I never used Snapchat, so I don't get it much. Although I'm for sure not dismissive as some, I just never tried it.
The reward is when someone replies to your snapchat, it's social validation.
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#6"The cost of content creation is extremely low, and Snapchat makes it fun to think about what aspects of what I’m doing every day might be cool for other people to see." But what is the reward of content creation? Honest question. How do a user feel their effort in posting was worthy? I never used Snapchat, so I don't get it much. Although I'm for sure not dismissive as some, I just never tried it.
The reward are those random bits of validation you get from friends that say to you in real life "I loved your Snap the other day" and when your friends directly respond on snapchat
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#7"The cost of content creation is extremely low, and Snapchat makes it fun to think about what aspects of what I’m doing every day might be cool for other people to see." But what is the reward of content creation? Honest question. How do a user feel their effort in posting was worthy? I never used Snapchat, so I don't get it much. Although I'm for sure not dismissive as some, I just never tried it.
You can see the number of, and names of, the people who view/screenshot your Story. Other replies to your comment are right about individual Snaps, but I think the article is mostly talking about the Story feature.
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#8Great post from somebody I respect tremendously. One thing I feel like he didn't touch on, which I feel like is most important, is that there's no public comments on Snapchat. People post without much need for validation and without fear of backlash.
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#9Even though I've been pretty active with and supportive of Snapchat from the beginning, I had always thought of it as a fad that would die off pretty quickly. I also was quick to judge negatively any new features or modes of using the app - such as chat, stories, filters, etc.- assuming it was diluting the brand. At least so far, I have been incredibly wrong almost every time (other than the payment feature, that never really took off to my knowledge). It's pretty impressive how they've managed to not only stay relevant, but bring people into a content sharing platform that was initially a novelty and now a pretty major method of communication, at least with some people within my social circles.
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#10They've added some interesting features like stories from your city or events near you which are a subset of videos hand-picked from different people who submitted them for that event/location. This is really handy if you want to get a sneak peak into some event near you that you were unable to attend.
In addition, you can do real time face-to-face video chat, just like face-time. They've also been pretty smart about the implementation of it. If 2 people are snap messaging (not video, just text) and they both have the chat window open, the snapchat camera icon would start glowing blue, signifying that you can initiate a face-to-face video chat with the person.