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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 kazagistar »

viraptor wrote: post #73
AnimalMuppet wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And ten years from now, the kids are going to want to have a space for themselves, after all the companies and old people are on Snapchat.

It looks like anyone can create new myspace, facebook, snapchat, twitter, instagram, ... as long as they time it right with the previous one running out of steam and make it faster to interact with. I'm not sure what can be faster than snapchat though - live stream?

Has to be something that lets you fix it up and present your "best self"; looking cooler then you really are in a critical component of any social network.

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

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Post by NeutronBoy »

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.

> 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.

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

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Post by abrkn »

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…

    "i luvu" via Gmail
Ouch. Right in the onion sensor.

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

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Post by josho »

codeshaman wrote: post #65

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 te…

Reminds me of Brave New World, where the general population lives in a shallow lifestyle void of any meaning.

Seem like a pattern, predicting that future, is emerging. E.g. My parent's teenage hobby was musical instruments. Mine was playing video games. Kids today it seems is responding to selfies.

pg also has a good essay on the Acceleration of Addictiveness* that seems relevant.

*http://paulgraham.com/addiction.html

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

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Post by rrauenza »

matt_morgan wrote: post #49
ceocoder wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Every kid is different. You'll know what to do.

The great thing starting with a baby is you get to grow with them -- you don't have to be an expert right off the bat.

Gloria Wall (mother of four, spouse of Larry Wall) also has great advice that is worth repeating: You don't have to be an expert in children to be a parent -- you only have to be an expert in _your_ children.

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Post by howeyc »

AaronLasseigne wrote: post #16

It's a video game for her. She doesn't look at the photos in the morning, she just responds to keep the chain going. It's like grinding. She has a score, tries to improve it, get trophies, new equipment (I mean filters), etc.

Indeed, sounds like Snapchat is using gaming techniques[1] for a social app.

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[1] http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/6/8544303/casino-slot-machine...

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

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Post by matmann2001 »

daveloyall wrote: post #42
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…

Cat In The Hat desktop software? Hm, I searched and found more than one. Various companies: The Learning Company. Borderbund. MacKiev. Which did you have?

My younger brother had the Borderbund one. I recall it being a pretty decent piece of software.

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

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Post by 2bitencryption »

Snapchat is a surprisingly great platform. I'm 23 so I guess I'm pushing the target audience, but all my friends and I use it, and it's probably made keeping in touch with them about 1000x easier.

It's just so simple. It takes sending photos down to its very base level.

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

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Post by l33tbro »

There's a school of thought that says that people use apps like this not to follow the pleasure principal, but that these platforms provide a brief escape from the neurotransmitters asdociated with anxiety that make us feel bad (1). This actually okay Buzzfeed article (who knew?) pretty much confirms that, only the thesis is distorted by the sample group being excitable teenage girls.

Seeing the film Boyhood reminded me of how fluid your identity is at this age. I think these teens will discard Snapchat forms of communication in a few years, as you change so much in this window. (1) http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/features-issue-...

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

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Post by TacticalTable »

josephpmay wrote: post #62
skorecky wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's almost as if Snapchat is a direct reaction to the permanency of social media. Once schools/parents started teaching kids to be careful online, they moved to a service where it isn't as much of an issue.
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