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

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Post by Analemma_ »

doublerebel wrote: post #154

I'm in Seattle, so maybe I'm biased -- but many of my friends and I from 20s to 30s all enjoy Snapchat. The moments are real, time-limited, don't require a reply, aren't faked by filters, and aren't a popularity contest. That makes it a huge improvement over every other social network we use. It's by far the easiest way to share a picture or moment with friends -- a photo is worth 1000 words and the location/time/vel…

I assume you and you friends don't work for Microsoft, since Snapchat is the highest-profile absentee from Windows Phone :P

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

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Post by tomlock »

rtl49 wrote: post #103

I think our distaste for this obvious misdirection of human attention goes beyond mere "kids these days" prejudice. SV startups,"social," "interconnectedness," this nonsense is creating an asinine, infantilized generation: easily manipulated, desperate for social acceptance, incapable of independent thought, and entirely beholden to the whims of mainstream society. This cutesy "adult finds himself going with the flow…

I think no generation has really seen their criticism of the new generation as "kids these days" prejudice. If they did think that, they wouldn't say the words with such conviction. But, that is kinda what it looks like, right?

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Post by atom-morgan »

Griever wrote: post #71

I 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…

I'm 25 and most people I know my age use this app heavily. Maybe not 20 in such a short span but I would still expect heavy use pre takeoff. I don't think this is entirely an age thing especially when we're talking about 20 and 30 years olds.

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Post by ryandrake »

niftich wrote: post #101
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'm not sure why so many of us don't "get" Snapchat. Really it just corrects one of the biggest "features" of social apps: that they're essentially public-facing, permanent popularity contests. On Snapchat, every picture and chat message self-destructs by default, so there's less social pressure to post something truly extraordinary. There's no publicly visible tracking of likes, so you're not tempted to compare your…

I don't "get" Snapchat any more than I get Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. etc. These social apps (which are about as social as reality TV is reality) all are more about promotion than communication. In order to get into these apps you need to have a personality that seeks constant attention from others and external validation. The platforms are all about "broadcasting me and tracking the acknowledgement of me", which is great if you're advertising a corporate brand but kind of sad and self-absorbed if you're a person.

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Post by atom-morgan »

rtl49 wrote: post #103

I think our distaste for this obvious misdirection of human attention goes beyond mere "kids these days" prejudice. SV startups,"social," "interconnectedness," this nonsense is creating an asinine, infantilized generation: easily manipulated, desperate for social acceptance, incapable of independent thought, and entirely beholden to the whims of mainstream society. This cutesy "adult finds himself going with the flow…

Obvious misdirection of human attention? Snapchat is a fantastic app.

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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?

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Post by FireBeyond »

the_mitsuhiko wrote: post #153
FireBeyond wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, no, it's not an "issue"... if you're willing to pay $375-475/month for a 60GB mobile data plan.

> Well, no, it's not an "issue"... if you're willing to pay $375-475/month for a 60GB mobile data plan. What plans are you looking at? For a family of 4, unlimited data on T-mobile for instance costs 150 USD for the entire family or 37.5 USD per phone.

T-mobile, to be sure, I didn't look at. But with that plan, "if you are in the top 3% of users" (which 60GB/month is likely to be, especially as that's just one of those four users), your data use will be slowed to 2G speeds.

"typical download speeds of 40Kbps-200Kbps and upload speeds of 20-80 Kbps"

Snapchat is going to get pretty painful pretty quickly.

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Post by cgriswald »

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.

I'm very skeptical. No doubt Snapchat is game-ified somewhat, but I have people aged 12 to 53 (and all ages in between) snapping with me and not a single one of them has ever mentioned their snap score. I'd bet most don't even know their score.

Trophies aren't really all that unlockable. Within the app, any trophy you haven't unlocked is a lock icon with ??? underneath it, so you don't even know what you need to do to achieve it. You can go online to find out, but neither my 12-year-old daughter nor my 17-year-old sister have bothered to do it. They just don't care. That's not what it's about for them.

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