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Post by visakanv »

JabavuAdams wrote: post #276
visakanv wrote: post #270

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> Now, as I turn 40, I wonder how different my life would have been if I'd spent more time doing other things, instead of playing video games. Do you mind sharing what these other things are, specifically? Thanks!

1. Playing fewer video games in university, and focusing more on studying so that I didn't fail my final year. I started university three years early, which has opened doors, but having a degree would have opened more. Also, paying more attention to electromagnetics and thermodynamics. 2. Continuing to train for Tennis. You really can get too old to do this at an elite level. I love training, and I love being in the…

Thanks so much for sharing. At 25, I've been feeling a teeny tiny version of that (I had a lot of free time in my teenage years that I frittered away, and wish I had spent it developing skills). But I realize that 10, 20 years from now I'm going to look at today the same way, too.

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

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Post by koide »

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

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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.…

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…

Please let's stop equating naked children to child porn. That only helps the status quo which is willing and able to destroy the life of innocent people

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Post by eru »

cdcarter wrote: post #214
eru wrote: post #57

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If she has an iPhone, just auto-backup to the cloud might cost her much more bytes than the picture alone. (They actually shoot a short video for each picture.)

Snapchat doesn't autobackup to the cloud. It's whole thing is that it's ephemeral.

Snapchat is not, but does the iOS camera app that takes the picture do the backup?

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

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Post by atom-morgan »

rtl49 wrote: post #172
atom-morgan wrote: post #166

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Obvious misdirection of human attention? Snapchat is a fantastic app.

So fantastic that the amount of time and energy this girl and her peers dedicate to its use is well directed? And here I'd thought it only enables one to send photographs to one's friends, with a scoring system to encourage the development of addictive behavior.

You could say the same of nearly any fad that resonates with teenagers. My point was plenty of people I know, across various ages, use Snapchat as a replacement for MMS. I would hardly classify that as an obvious misdirection of human attention.

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Post by cdcarter »

eru wrote: post #353
cdcarter wrote: post #214

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Snapchat doesn't autobackup to the cloud. It's whole thing is that it's ephemeral.

Snapchat is not, but does the iOS camera app that takes the picture do the backup?

The photo is taken by Snapchat, not the camera app.

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Post by krabpaaltje »

derwiki wrote: post #31
hebleb wrote: post #14

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I didn't get it until literally this past Sunday. I've always had it installed on my phone, and have maybe ~10 friends on it, but I never actually sent anything. I would occasionally receive a snapchat from my friend, I would chuckle, and that was the end of it. This Sunday my wife took my phone and just took a silly picture of ourselves during the Super Bowl and sent it to everyone on my list. Within minutes, I was…

I tried to use it, but I realized a core component was taking out my phone and snapping a pic in public. Using my phone in public makes me socially anxious (feel like I'm "part of the problem"), so I don't see a world where I can really snapchat.

Ah, social anxiety.

Nobody cares what you do in public.

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

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Post by quadrangle »

rpgmaker wrote: post #134
quadrangle wrote: post #99

I wish people wouldn't make all these age-based assumptions. When I was 12, I was already disgusted at the indulgent addictions to superficial social shit that my peers did. I'm sure if I were 20 years younger today, my feelings about this nonsense wouldn't be any different.

But you weren't part of the majority of your peers. The generalization is about the majority.

Right, but I'm not part of the majority now either. The majority of older adults are still into superficial crap.

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Post by dcposch »

sandworm101 wrote: post #233
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…

I'm biased by my perceptive (legal) but imho girls between 12 and 18 should not be allowed connected cameras. I've had too many conversations with horrified fathers and crying children after a disturbing image ends up somewhere it was never meant to be. There are just too many people, and I include cops in this, out there looking to get kids into serious trouble. I know that kids live a life in pictures, but that pub…

> imho girls between 12 and 18 should not be allowed connected cameras

are you saying they shouldnt have a phone until they turn 18? that sounds super unrealistic

i think its important to respect their intelligence.

>There are just too many people, and I include cops in this, out there looking to get kids into serious trouble

maybe that is the problem we need to solve.

saying a young woman in high school shouldnt be allowed a phone sounds like victim blaming

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Post by zodPod »

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.

She clearly says that, given free time, she does nothing but snap chat. Not sure how that's a minor distraction.

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Post by derwiki »

krabpaaltje wrote: post #356
derwiki wrote: post #31

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I tried to use it, but I realized a core component was taking out my phone and snapping a pic in public. Using my phone in public makes me socially anxious (feel like I'm "part of the problem"), so I don't see a world where I can really snapchat.

Ah, social anxiety. Nobody cares what you do in public.

I do.
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