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

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Post by duderific »

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…

Replace "SnapChat" with "Television" or "Video Games" in your comments, and the meaning is no different. Do you feel the same way about all diversionary forms of leisure?

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Post by sakopov »

I read a lot of "I'm feeling old now." Interesting, because you should be feeling like the fucking Indiana Jones compared to the little drones parents are raising today. This is just very very sad. I'd love to actually comment something constructive about this article but it absolutely blows my mind that parents are OK with all of this.

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Post by freshhawk »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #19
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.

Yet Another Skinner Box. EDIT: At least SpaceX and Tesla won the Crunchies instead of junk like Snapchat.

But a particularly powerful one, it's not attaching to feelings of escape or enjoyment but friendship and social status. So even if you dislike you can't not participate without serious consequences. Especially when you are at an age when social status is of extreme importance, that gives the operators of the network and app a hell of a lot of power and a new flavor of power at that.

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Post by rdancer »

sakopov wrote: post #202

I read a lot of "I'm feeling old now." Interesting, because you should be feeling like the fucking Indiana Jones compared to the little drones parents are raising today. This is just very very sad. I'd love to actually comment something constructive about this article but it absolutely blows my mind that parents are OK with all of this.

Get off this guy's lawn, you guys!

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Post by freshhawk »

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

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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.

A distraction where continued use is necessary for your friendships to remain in place. That mediates social status among young people. While they learn how to interact with other people in social situations.

So ... no, not just a distraction. Just a new thing we haven't seen the outcome of yet (besides some evidence of a large increase in narcissism and a drop in empathy).

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Post by EC1 »

spc476 wrote: post #194
SunShiranui wrote: post #146

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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 me…

That's all well and good but we've hit the top. Neither of those were billion dollar corporations.

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Post by mclovinit »

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?

I have a daughter who is always trying to compete with her older sister. One time she was chatting online with some creepy dudes in private. She saw her older sister chatting with teen friends and thought it was the same thing. I would try to lay some ground rules and keep at it. Being a dad ain't easy on the nerves with girls. Rules get broken, but just make sure your relationship with her isn't. Daddy time is important at any age.

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Post by FireBeyond »

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.

Maybe I should have read more closely, my assumption was that that referred to cellular data.

But in principle, I absolutely agree with you. Caps, etc? Should go away, yesterday.

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Post by joezydeco »

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…

My 7 year old sends me strings of poop emojis.
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