Best buzzfeed article I've ever read. Might even be the best UX user story I've ever read. Talk about finding an evangelist of your product to talk about what they like/don't like.
My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens”
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#92The more things change the more things stay the same...reading this tip:
> BROOKE: Don’t Snapchat boys that you like first — wait until they Snapchat you.
Reminded me of the movie All About Eve (1950), when Bill says: "What I go after, I want to go after. I don't want it to come after me. Don't cry. Just score it as an incomplete forward pass."
...and of course, everything else in past and modern Western culture that advises women to be the chased.
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#93These 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…
We're all addicted to a million things (by this definition of addiction)
It's only negative when that becomes a problem somehow in your life.
It's not even clear to me that we'd be better off with a fully mindful approach to every pleasure and activity.
What is unhealthy though, is disparaging everything other people enjoy. Especially when you don't have the courage to say "I don't like it" but couch your disapproval in terms of concern for their "addictions"
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#94The 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.
ok grandpa
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#96What 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…
> 60 gigabytes in a month just for one fucking stupid app? And they don't even look at the pictures!
maybe snapchat should take note and send a 100byte version first with progressive improvement if the image is visible for more than 0.8 seconds (or whatever the threshold is).
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#97I 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…
Sorry for being an old-ass as well, but wasn't snapchat created to send nudes to other people in a way that they are automatically erased and can't be saved? I don't know if people still use it like that, but do you feel comfortable letting your 12 years old daughter use something like that?
Would you prefer they share nudes over some other service that doesn't erase the photos and does allow them to be saved?
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Scores and Chains, as mentioned in the article, sound pretty skinner-boxy. Plus, every time someone sends you a response to a message is a skinner box reward, in a sense.
Those are Snapchat, not VSCO. VSCO is pretty much devoid of social features beyond Follow, as far as I can tell.
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#99I wish people wouldn't make all these age-based assumptions. When I was 12, I was already disgusted at the indulgent addictions to superficial social shit that my peers did. I'm sure if I were 20 years younger today, my feelings about this nonsense wouldn't be any different.
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#100I actually caught a glimpse of this behavior a few weeks ago. I was sitting next to a kid who was maybe around 16 years old snapchatting to his friends that our flight was about to depart. He must have taken around 20 selfies, each with a series of seemingly nonsensical emoji's in the span of 3 minutes. I was staring dumbfoundedly the entire time. It blew my mind, and made me realize how out of touch I am in my 27 ye…
Hm. If you are 27 like myself, you were around for MySpace which was just as bad selfie-wise.