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

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Post by eru »

sangnoir wrote: post #41
asgfoi wrote: post #34

It felt nice when you had to physically meet a person to exchange the latest meme. The physical vicinity adds so much quality to the social experience. I cannot talk to friends the same way over char or even the phone than in person, it just feels weird.

Is that how it was before the Internet, grandpa? > It felt nice when you had to... Said every aging generation ever, I mean, the last part of that sentence could be any of (read a book|sit down and listen to the radio|watch broadcast television) and someone out there reminisces fondly of the better, simpler times.

Characteristically, Brooks in the `Mythical Man Month' has no nostalgia for bringing your program in punch cards to the data center, and sees timesharing as an unalloyed good.

(I think it's because the bad old days were still very fresh in memory when he wrote the essays.)

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Post by josephpmay »

skorecky wrote: post #13
snickmy wrote: post #3

Eyes opening. How I felt old in my 20s just by reading an article :(

I know so many 20 somethings that use snapchat. Here I am still not getting it. "But you can send a picture in a text message..."

The whole appeal of Snapchat is that nothing is permanent, so you don't have to really think about what you're sending.

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Post by hluska »

ceocoder wrote: post #47
cubano wrote: post #33

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 i…

man this is scary for me, I'm about to have a baby girl (she already has a Gmail account), I know I'm far from the "dad doesn't get 'it'" phase, but it is still scary. Do you have any tips to make this transition easy?

Congratulations!! I'm about to have a baby girl too (she is due on March 6).

I've been really stressed out about this, so I set out to have as many conversations with other dads as I could. The best thing that I heard was that you just need to accept it as part of their maturing process. You won't get it because you aren't meant to get it.

Then, I remind myself that when I was into AD&D, my Mom thought that I was worshipping Satan...:)

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Post by Raphmedia »

ceocoder wrote: post #47
cubano wrote: post #33

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 i…

man this is scary for me, I'm about to have a baby girl (she already has a Gmail account), I know I'm far from the "dad doesn't get 'it'" phase, but it is still scary. Do you have any tips to make this transition easy?

Accept you "won't get it" early on.

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Post by codeshaman »

These young people are addicted to their phones and snapchat.

Later on in life, when they 'grow out' of snapchat, they will replace the addiction with something else - some other app, but also food, drugs or sex.

Whatever thing they will find interesting, they will pursue it with the same pattern that they learn with these apps / games.

This future generation will have to find a way to live with all this addictive technology and survive in the real world.

Might well be that Snapchat (and others) will be looked at as we're now looking at cigarettes.

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Post by pixl97 »

the_mitsuhiko wrote: post #50
mschuster91 wrote: post #40

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 billi…

You are not the typical user. You can just get an unlimited tarif and be done with it.

> You can just get an unlimited tarif and be done with it.

Um, if you're in the U.S. probably not. Most have some kind of limits even on 'unlimited' such as your connection goes to ISDN speed.

Even my cable modem has a 350GB a month cap which I occasionally exceed.

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Post by bri3d »

tajen wrote: post #18

There's product placement. He namedrops "Treller" and "VSCO". The article isn't "How to upgrade your style", it "How to become a Snapchat user." Even his conclusion is "I'll try more", just like you tell yur teacher when you've failed and you know you'll fail again. I don't doubt the person is authentic, but I wonder how much he has worked with BuzzFeed to tune the article. Still, 1. Snapchat's design is remarkable f…

VSCO is definitely a phenomenon amongst teenagers, regardless of the product placement possibilities in the article. I'd actually have rather seen an article on that, because I find it fascinating that a service without any of the Skinner-box gratification buttons ("like" "retweet" "share" "comment") has taken off in such a big way.

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Post by daeken »

zodPod wrote: post #48
yongelee wrote: post #27

This is pretty stupid. Teens aren't the trendsetters, they're the early adopters. Teens follow their older siblings who are the true trend setters. There's no way a 13 year old determines whats popular, it is older 18-30 cool people who are the true trend setters. Rappers and pop icons for the most part, there are no 13 year old pop icons.

This was my thought the whole way through.. He's treating this teen like he needs to be more like her. It sounds like she's wasting her life while simultaneously wasting her friends' lives. There's no gain to this..

> It sounds like she's wasting her life while simultaneously wasting her friends' lives.

It sounds like you spent more time writing this comment than she did to respond to all of her friend's snaps from the night before. Heroin is a waste of a life; Snapchat is just a distraction, and a minor one at that.

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