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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.
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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 t…
Half of those are not true on iOS
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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).
Thanks for doing such good work!
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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.
> 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. Very true. And like some of the other commentors are pointing out, it's somewhat sad that the old, more "natural" communities built over time are becoming a dying breed.
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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.
I noticed several replies talking about Snapchat's practices, but no one commented on the huge number of applications that exist to download Snapchat content permanently and without triggering Snapchat's screenshot detection. It's not like these require any technical ability either: they are listed even in the iTunes Store and are very simple to use. I'm not a parent, but if I had a child in the Snapchat age range I…
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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).
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…