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

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Post by coldtea »

jedberg wrote: post #110
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…

I'm sure adults said the same thing about video games. "What will these kids replace their video game addiction with when they outgrow it? Drugs?!"

And sure enough, by the time those kids grew up, marijuana has become legalized (for "medical use" at least) in several states...

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Post by rayiner »

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?

Even if they get to that phase it's often temporary. I've got a young daughter and in retrospect my dad seems a lot smarter than he did when I was a teenager.

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Post by spc476 »

SunShiranui wrote: post #146
EC1 wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was for a brief period what I like to call the "wild west" of the web. All just shitty phpBB and whatnot boards for every topic. There was no concept of social media. I genuinely got to know the people, mods, smods, gmods, admins, superadmins (the list of "positions" was always comically long and induced great drama on most communities). I visited many of those people I formed connections with online, in person…

I think that kind of cultural expression is something we need to protect and keep alive. A future when all of our communities, all of our social interactions, are routed two a small amount of services hosted by great companies is one I don't look forward to. That kind of thing - just setting something up for the hell of it, and slowly building a community, or a group of friends that way - to me it's very special.

I remember when I first encountered BBSes (mid to late 80s). Dialing into a slew of local systems and enlarging my social circle. Then there was the Internet and many of my former BBS social circle were deriding it, saying it didn't have that community feel.

I remember when I first encountered USENET (early 90s). Reading scores of USENET groups and enlarging my social circle, even going to far as to go to a yearly meeting one group held for several years. Then there was the World Wide Web that everything was being funneled in to. Most of the USENET crowd I was with were deriding it, saying it didn't have that community feel.

I remember when I first encountered Slashdot (late 90s). Reading score of comments on trending topics and again, enlarging my social circle. Then there was Digg and many on Slashdot were deriding that, saying it didn't have that community feel ...

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Post by doublerebel »

fuzzywalrus wrote: post #177
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…

Maybe I'm living in a bubble, but since when has SMS been a painful experience for messaging? If I'm texting whoever, whenever, I can send a snap and I have the bonus of not having to take a picture for every text I send. Plus in the days of modern texting, I use Messages from my computer which makes life even more pleasant as at work I'm able to keep in touch with friends/family without even glancing at my phone. I…

MMS for picture messaging:

* picture quality sucks

* not ephemeral

* requires multiple clicks (snapchat is just one button)

* difficult to BCC (snapchat sending is ALL bcc, which is awesome)

* doesn't work well from country to country (if at all -- but getting snaps from my international friends is really really cool and works the same as local)

* no easy way to send video

* expects a reply

* is awkward to send in the middle of the night (snapchat is 100% non-emergency and just flashes the notification light)

* can't be sure anyone ever got it (snapchat forces read receipts)

*... the list is long.

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Post by vehementi »

daeken wrote: post #70
zodPod wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I don't think you can say with a straight face that the girl's usage of snapchat is a minor distraction.

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Post by tdaltonc »

dsuth wrote: post #174
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…

> 1. Snapchat's design is remarkable for its hidden features that you discover by social-networking Honest question: isn't this just bad UI design?

I don't think so. It's simple for a firs time user, but has near limitless depth for hardcore users.

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Post by Spooky23 »

the_mitsuhiko wrote: post #179
FireBeyond wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

But nobody uses 60GB of data on data only. When you're at home you're typically connected to Wifi. Also in many ways that's besides the point. Usage on mobile devices is skyrocketing and in particular young users are the reason for it. At this point high data usage per month is not exactly an exception but the norm.

I have an associate who travels and eschews wifi. He used like 75GB/month.

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Post by eclipxe »

SunShiranui wrote: post #146
EC1 wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was for a brief period what I like to call the "wild west" of the web. All just shitty phpBB and whatnot boards for every topic. There was no concept of social media. I genuinely got to know the people, mods, smods, gmods, admins, superadmins (the list of "positions" was always comically long and induced great drama on most communities). I visited many of those people I formed connections with online, in person…

I think that kind of cultural expression is something we need to protect and keep alive. A future when all of our communities, all of our social interactions, are routed two a small amount of services hosted by great companies is one I don't look forward to. That kind of thing - just setting something up for the hell of it, and slowly building a community, or a group of friends that way - to me it's very special.

I agree. That's sorta what HN used to feel like also...
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