2 minutes of snapchat = 3% battery life on Android (Nexus 5) - I like the app and the idea but it kills my poor baby!
I suppose that is because it keeps the camera running even if you are at the stories or PM panel.
Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage
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#152I downloaded snapchat a few years ago. Didn't know enough people on it and uninstalled after a month or two.
About a year ago I reinstalled as a way to share a trip I was on. It was perfect for that.
You'll post one perfect, curated photo to insta of your day, but you'll snap the random guy in the street, a funny sign in another language or just some bullshit you're up to.
Instagram feels a bit past its prime these days. I follow more commercial accounts on insta than I do on snapchat.
Snapchat it's like 40 close friends and fam. People who have my phone number.
Plus if you want to meet girls (sub 30 I should add) snap is the easiest way to connect lately.
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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?
As someone who can relate to the parent post, I will admit that if no one is actively listening to me then I absolutely will not speak. But I'm on the quieter side of personalities and don't enjoy talking for the hell of it.
That's now what that person meant. The way I look at it, Snapchat is like conversations—you don't remember most of them. Does that mean you never talk unless you have some way of knowing you will remember them forever? That's basically what Snapchat is for (unless it is important, then you screenshot!).
With Snapchat you aren't "creating" anything, just having casual conversations.
Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage
#154I downloaded snapchat a few years ago. Didn't know enough people on it and uninstalled after a month or two. About a year ago I reinstalled as a way to share a trip I was on. It was perfect for that. You'll post one perfect, curated photo to insta of your day, but you'll snap the random guy in the street, a funny sign in another language or just some bullshit you're up to. Instagram feels a bit past its prime these d…
The worst thing about snapchat when traveling however, is battery life.
That app literally sucks the juice out of your phone in 10 minutes.
Too much gps trying to load all their filters or something I don't know. I have to turn off cellular data when roaming or my phone will dead 20 minutes after I left the house.
Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage
#155I downloaded snapchat a few years ago. Didn't know enough people on it and uninstalled after a month or two. About a year ago I reinstalled as a way to share a trip I was on. It was perfect for that. You'll post one perfect, curated photo to insta of your day, but you'll snap the random guy in the street, a funny sign in another language or just some bullshit you're up to. Instagram feels a bit past its prime these d…
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#156Well, you're right that the ad problem drives people away, but you're wrong in saying that they deliver the same information in a functionally different but essentially similar method. I broadcast and ingest very different information on Snapchat than I ever did on facebook. The ephemeral nature of Snapchat, combined with the lack of public "likes" makes it a much more positive experience to post, and thus I in turn…
Because you got into Facebook so late.
People who are 20 are doing on Snapchat today what I did on Facebook when I was 20: multicasting. I either want to send a message to everyone or to a group. Sometimes in a personal message. I see almost no real difference in content. Snapchat might be a little racier in personal messages, but that happened on FB and Twitter as well.
The ephemeral nature was built into Facebook and Twitter as well, to some extent, as the services weren't searchable. You'd post something and after a few more posts it was essentially "gone from view".
Outside of marketers and people trying to "build an audience" I really see almost no difference at all in the way people use it. It's just a matter of how old you are and what service was popular at the time.
Don't believe me? Do this as an experiment: Create a new account on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. Follow only 30 real people. No more, no less. 30 people you know. No marketers or self promoters or any of that nonsense. Just follow 30 real people, maybe a celeb or two the way a 20 year old might. Look at the content. It's all the same stuff. Having fun here, doing this with person X, Y, and Z. Cute dog photo. Inspiring quote. Maybe a DM with some nudes. There is nothing to "get" other than to understand that as you become older the thing that's changing is you. The biggest difference between Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat is how old you and your friends were when you started using it, and what what point in the lifecycle of the service you were at.
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#15730something here - It took me a while to "get" Snapchat, but in my opinion there is no better way to keep up with friends and family digitally than via Snapchat Stories. 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. Posting more than once or twice a day to Instagram/Facebook seems excessive, Twitter is a bit m…
There is nothing to "get". It's all the same. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat. People want a free way to broadcast to their friends. Someone invents a service that does that. Slowly ads take over. Now the stream needs to be "curated". It's no longer a timeline. It's no longer sensible. Now you can no longer reliably broadcast to your friends. People search for a new service that did what the old service used t…
yeah no, snapchat was never a timeline and thats what was good about it
you want to be connected with someone because you are friends but don't like the random shit they post but don't want to unfriend them? thats a problem for a different social network but not snapchat
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm still lost. Maybe I just have radically different friends than everyone else here, but if I really have some pressing need to know what they're doing on a given day, I just ask them. Nobody cares about the day-to-day minutia, and if it was interesting, stuff like FB or regular messages work just fine. Like most social media apps, this just feels like a solution in search of a problem (except for sexting).
Not trying to be mean here, but I'm having quite the time watching you try to grok Snapchat. To me your argument reads like "why would I send someone a text message when I can call them?" when text messaging was first becoming popular. When you have more than a handful of friends that you're trying to keep in touch with, are you really going to ask every single one of them what they're up to each day? Snapchat solves…
> When you have more than a handful of friends that you're trying to keep in touch with, are you really going to ask every single one of them what they're up to each day?
Good god why would I care?
I imagine this difference in attitude accounts for some of the confusion over snapchat's purpose.
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are different kinds of confusing. Twitter is fundamentally confusing (for all the reasons mentioned - @'s, reply, RT, etc..) Snapshot's confusing part is only in the strange UI decisions of the app itself. Those I feel they could easily remedy.
This exactly. While I think Twitter could improve their UI by leaps and bounds, Snapchat's UI is just incomprehensible. However I'm a strong believer in it being 100% intentional at this point.
Twitters UI developed around how people used Twitter. hashtags, RT, @mention all evolved from the massive userbase. Twitter is a platypus.
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
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'm still lost. Maybe I just have radically different friends than everyone else here, but if I really have some pressing need to know what they're doing on a given day, I just ask them. Nobody cares about the day-to-day minutia, and if it was interesting, stuff like FB or regular messages work just fine. Like most social media apps, this just feels like a solution in search of a problem (except for sexting).
> this just feels like a solution in search of a problem (except for sexting)
ahhh the old-millenial-stuck-in-2013 version of snapchat
Follow @ArsenicTV, while your finance buddies snap you insider merger and acquisition tips on stocks, and then tell me you "don't get Snapchat"
get w/ it