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

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Post by sumedh »

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…

Guy in my 30's, I was addicted to msn/yahoo messenger, ebaumsworld, fark, digg and now reddit.

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Post by melted »

Analemma_ wrote: post #161
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

Contrary to popular belief Microsoft doesn't really care what phone you use. Nor does it care if you use an iPad or Mac at home. I'd wager most Microsoft employees use Android, with iOS as close second and WP as distant third. A lot less distant than in the rest of the world, but third nevertheless.

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Post by pingswept »

state wrote: post #107

It's interesting to hear everyone saying 'ah, I'm too old for Snapchat'. At face value I feel that way too, but I think there's something more going on here. Snapchat strikes me as a really unique modality. It's not really a message type that we can draw some kind of lineage back to PARC or Bell Labs or whatever. Slack follows a familiar pattern of 'oh yeah, that's just like IRC and they had those running on Altos a…

Seems kind of like Zwrite: text-only, ephemeral messages. It was just text that appeared in your terminal session. My friends and I used it in (engineering) grad school in the late 90's.

Good god, there's still a manual online: http://web.stanford.edu/group/privacyproject/currentStateUni...

"They have no control over what text the message replaces, but can always press the key combination control-L to restore their screen."

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Post by vacri »

douche wrote: post #144
carc wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stop pretending you know what you're talking about. Do you know how much money is saved by not keeping those pictures? Snapchat handles more pictures per day than facebook[0], which gets almost half a billion per day. I know a few snapchat engineers that concur that Snapchat really does not keep any pictures, which allows them to make interesting optimizations that Facebook (and similar) can't. [0] http://techcrunch.…

How in the world does that work? I'm too old to have caught that wave, but I have a younger sister, and it's not like the snaps her friends send her go poof into the ether if her phone isn't on the network when they are sent. They've got to get queued up in storage on a server somewhere, they've got to get sent to her phone, and I assume, checksummed to make sure they didn't get corrupted in delivery, possibly resent…

Well, the delete action doesn't happen until they've been viewed. The original comment was suggesting that delete-means-soft-delete-not-destroy, not that the photos are never stored at all.

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Post by fuzzywalrus »

bri3d wrote: post #69
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.

VSCO has a rather large following among the prosumer crowd, most of the Apple "Shot on the iPhone 6" ads mention VSCO and a photographer friend of mine uses it on his iPad with his 5D on the go. While I haven't used it myself, its certainly been name checked quite a bit and its success is largely due to it being a more empowered Instagram on the photography side.

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Post by fencepost »

Good lord, why would you want to?

I actually have a snapchat account that I set up to see what was going on at the college near me (public curated "college" story that was being locally advertised for a while), and I have been known to poke around on Minecraft servers on slow evenings when I don't want to think.

That said, the very thought of interacting with any teens actively using snapchat gives me the heebie jeebies in a huge and ugly way. It'd be hard to overstate my desire to not interact with anyone that age on snapchat or really anything else that involves video or photos.

Even without the concerns about avoiding anything that can be even perceived as skeevy, I have absolutely nothing except some demographic elements (country, race, have been known to play stupid video games) in common with snapchatters, and aside from adding in the family element it sounds like neither does the writer. So, unless I'm trying to market to them (which has its own skeeviness factor) it's like wrestling a greased pig - lots of annoyance and nobody's having any fun there.

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Post by proc0 »

I'm laughing at all the people that "feel old". This kid is 13! Literally a child. If you're in your late 20's or 30's, you're not old, you're just not a child anymore. Snapchat is nothing that new. It's just communicating with your friends in a different way that before was not possible. It's like texting on steroids. I don't see the big deal, and I definitely don't like the fact that you can't save them. What's the point of data if you can't save it? What if you capture a truly awesome moment? I'm sure they'll come around at some point and add the option to save snaps within a certain timeframe.

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Post by tomlock »

rtl49 wrote: post #178
tomlock wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Perhaps this line of thinking is why many adults of today let the kids run rampage while matters of immediate importance to them go unattended. It is often difficult for a thinking person to admit to a sense of certainty, but at the risk of seeming to exclude myself from that group, I have to say that I believe this is a sheer waste of time, and almost certainly an intellectually destructive one. It is not necessaril…

Its probably fair to say that intellectual skepticism could be leading to doubt here. However, couldn't it also be that the historical understanding that every generation has fears about the state of the next and how they spend their time leads to reasonable skepticism? Video games, Dungeons and Dragons, Rock music, Jazz music etc. etc. etc.

First off - when did any of those lead to harm, considering they don't really concretely "bear fruit"?

Secondly - how is the time spent on social media "really really" the one we are being reasonable about this time?

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Post by fencepost »

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.

The way it's described, I'd call that "flow" - she's snapchatting "in the zone." It's like responses in a lot of video games - you don't "see" the enemy / row of gems / hole for an L-shaped block, you perceive it and react to it. If you have to look, it's probably already too late.

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Post by MichaelApproved »

ank_the_elder wrote: post #142
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…

If I may... http://i.imgur.com/6e50Kwl.jpg

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