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No surprises here. Snapchat captures the use a common person wants. Twitter's really just good for tracking celebrities.
I really respect the Snapchat service, but the thing is that I don't like to create things that will disappear. If I want a thing to disappear I simply don't create it. I believe I am an exception, I see a lot of people that loves Snapchat because it erases things after a while. May I still don't have the problem Snapchat was created to solve.
The point is that it mimics a natural conversation. Do you refuse to speak just because no one is recording you?
late 20something here. Is it possible for me to "get" snapchat if none of my friends are using it? If so, how?
One day something else will come up and capture "young people's" attention and Snapchat will have a slow, painful MySpace-esque death.
This is the price you pay when you don't have anything real to offer to the world, and instead trade on shear popularity alone.
Honestly thought this happened a while ago.
Social Media are like TV Shows, and Facebook is like the HBO of Social Media. One day something else will come up and capture "young people's" attention and Snapchat will have a slow, painful MySpace-esque death. This is the price you pay when you don't have anything real to offer to the world, and instead trade on shear popularity alone.
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>You can post pretty shamelessly the little things you're up to all day to your story, knowing it will be gone in 24 hours, keeping your feed really clean. This is the part I still don't get. Why would I want to constantly spam my friends with trivial photos of my daily life? Disappearing spam is still spam. I'm 28, nobody I know uses snapchat/instagram/whatever so I haven't actually used it. If it's something I actu…
Thirty something here. The stories aren't spam since they don't trigger notifications and you have to intentionally click on them to watch. When i'm not feeling social I ignore snapchat, when i am, i know i can check in and see what my friends are doing.
I still don't get it.
I really respect the Snapchat service, but the thing is that I don't like to create things that will disappear. If I want a thing to disappear I simply don't create it. I believe I am an exception, I see a lot of people that loves Snapchat because it erases things after a while. May I still don't have the problem Snapchat was created to solve.
> If I want a thing to disappear I simply don't create it. The point is that it mimics a natural conversation. Do you refuse to speak just because no one is recording you?