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

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

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Post by bsder »

Thirdegree wrote: post #272
rtl49 wrote: post #178

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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…

"And unlike some forms of leisure, this one bears no fruit." Increased connection with peers, for one. It's incredibly easy to network now. I'm young, and wasn't around for what you're looking back on as the good old days, but I disagree that there is no value to being able to send a one off "look what I'm doing" to a friend.

"Increased connection with peers, for one. It's incredibly easy to network now."

Is it, really? The girl in this article basically doesn't even LOOK at the pictures. The "conversation" is effectively: "Look at what I'm doing" "I don't care what you're doing" "Look at what I'm doing" "I don't care what you're doing" That doesn't seem like "increased connection".

But, this is also what I expect from a 13 year old.

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Post by qrendel »

zyxley wrote: post #46

> BROOKE: OMG!! 30?? Only NARPs have less than 150. > ME: What the hell is a NARP? > BROOKE: Nonathletic Regular Person. NARP. Wow, I feel old.

Checking urban dictionary, seems to be mostly language of the jock/lacrosse crowd (or at least originated there). Perhaps reflects more on his sister's particular social circle than the view of teens in general. Wouldn't know, I'm "old" too.

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Post by Illniyar »

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…

Actually I think the article isn't about "How to become a Snapchat user." but rather "how teens use snapchat (or social media in general) that is really different than how adults use it" .

Going from that to "what social media teens use that you don't even know about" isn't much of a stretch.

I'm not sure if I'll call mentioning these apps as "product placement". Could be someone trying to up these app's SEO ranking. Could be just an interesting tidbit he used (he also mentioned instagram, and I doubt that was by request).

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Post by radicalbyte »

JabavuAdams wrote: post #256
MicroBerto wrote: post #245

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Never regretted being an athlete, and it's never too late to start.

I was a provincially-ranked tennis player as a teenager. But yeah, definitely regret not going further with that while I was young. Had a stroke last year. It was pretty hard realizing that after a certain point, no you really can't be an elite athlete.

There's something that happens to a man when he's 25. When you're 24, you still have time to go to Tibet for 10 years. To get superfit. To master multiple martial arts; jejetsu, karate, krav maga; and to return.. as The Batman.

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Post by bemmu »

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.

That's what I got out of the article. Oh, I get it now, they gamified chatting.

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Post by dang »

carc wrote: post #135
ambicapter wrote: post #120

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Yes, but you know snapchat pictures aren't really deleted right? 'Temporary pictures' is a proposition that doesn't actually exist in the digital realm, and certainly not when a VC-backed company is proposing it.

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.…

> Stop pretending you know what you're talking about.

Whoa, that's totally out of line here. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Your comment would be fine without the first sentence (and maybe the second).

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Post by dang »

rayiner wrote: post #192
ceocoder wrote: post #47

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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.

But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/10/10/twain-father/

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Post by bemmu »

EC1 wrote: post #130
anon4 wrote: post #116

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I didn't know how to use Facebook when I was 18, so don't feel too bad. We grew up on IRC and PHPBB, social networks of fundamentally different make than the ones in use now. Plus, you are (were) one of the dorks and your sister is one of the cool kids. The two groups have noticeably different modes of socialising.

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 feel a bit the same way. I was running a BBS in 90s, which allowed only one person to connect at a time. I ended up meeting a big bunch of my users in person.

To recreate this, maybe I'll try starting a video chat when random people want to ask me for advice. Tried that today when someone sent me a random message on FB asking me for advice about living in Japan, was fun.

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Post by jeena »

avn2109 wrote: post #248
daveidol wrote: post #213

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Yes, they really are. Read the "Message Deletion and Retention" section: https://www.snapchat.com/privacy

As a thought experiment, if you were the head of ISIS or the Russian ambassador in Washington DC, would you or would you not expect your snaps to be "really deleted" aka actually private? Honest question, not trolling.

I would expect them to take a picture of their phone with the picture I send them with another camera and arhive them for security reasons.

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Post by yitchelle »

Moru wrote: post #125
hluska wrote: post #63

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Congratulations!! I'm about to have a baby girl too (she is due on March 6). I've been really stressed out about this, so I set out to have as many conversations with other dads as I could. The best thing that I heard was that you just need to accept it as part of their maturing process. You won't get it because you aren't meant to get it. Then, I remind myself that when I was into AD&D, my Mom thought that I was wor…

I would suggest you talk to mothers too, not just fathers. They might have insights that are important for you too :-)

Great advice. Also add your own parents to the list.
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