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My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens”

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Re: My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens”

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Post by derwiki »

hebleb wrote: post #14
redwards510 wrote: post #4

I consider myself an early-adopter. I always try to at least test out new technology, especially if it's what "the kids" are using. But with Snapchat I had a strong reaction of "this is dumb, screw this, I'm too old for this". Plus, no one I knew used it. I guess that makes me old now.

I didn't get it until literally this past Sunday. I've always had it installed on my phone, and have maybe ~10 friends on it, but I never actually sent anything. I would occasionally receive a snapchat from my friend, I would chuckle, and that was the end of it. This Sunday my wife took my phone and just took a silly picture of ourselves during the Super Bowl and sent it to everyone on my list. Within minutes, I was…

I tried to use it, but I realized a core component was taking out my phone and snapping a pic in public. Using my phone in public makes me socially anxious (feel like I'm "part of the problem"), so I don't see a world where I can really snapchat.

Re: My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens”

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Post by cubano »

I am the very proud father of a 14yo girl whom I have turned into an teenaged IT guru over the years.

She learned to read at age 3 using the very well done "Cat In The Hat" desktop program, and since then I have turned her on to everything from Gmail at age 6 to Ableton at 12.

I've decided that Snapchat is where it ends for me/us last year...she needs something to be hers and her friends alone, without "Dad" poking is old-ass nose into things.

I think she really appreciates that I haven't bugged her about connecting and sharing on that platform, and I know deep down it was time.

But boy...do I sometimes miss that 6yo angel sending me cryptic "i luvu" via Gmail.

Re: My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens”

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Post by DiabloD3 »

The most damning thing about Snapchat:

ME: I’ve seen how fast you do these responses… How are you able to take in all that information so quickly?

BROOKE: I don’t really see what they send. I tap through so fast. It’s rapid fire.

I closed the tab at that moment. That alone proved Snapchat has no relevancy to anyone, and is a waste of time and money.

Re: My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens”

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Post by minimaxir »

Justin Kan made a post a month ago on the virtues of Snapchat's complexity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10859860

I'll echo the comment I made there that I am concerned that the teenage-focus will be the lesson startups take away from Snapchat, and that might lead to usability regression for apps as a whole.

Re: My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens”

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Post by Niksko »

DiabloD3 wrote: post #35

The most damning thing about Snapchat: ME: I’ve seen how fast you do these responses… How are you able to take in all that information so quickly? BROOKE: I don’t really see what they send. I tap through so fast. It’s rapid fire. I closed the tab at that moment. That alone proved Snapchat has no relevancy to anyone, and is a waste of time and money.

> That alone proved Snapchat has no relevancy to anyone, and is a waste of time and money.

I think our definitions of 'proof' differ greatly.

Re: My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens”

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Post by mschuster91 »

What in holy blazes, 60 gigabytes in a month just for one fucking stupid app?

1) what carrier does that girl have? And at what cost? With German internet prices, we'd look at a 500€ per month alone for data, not to mention other data using apps, calls, SMSes...

2) what the fuck, I use Netflix at home quite regularly and rarely exceed 50 GByte (I'm on a 50/5 VDSL so it isn't a lack of speed) of traffic. How many billions of crappy front cam selfies can be shared in 60 GB of data?

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