Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

Post by themagician » Fri, Jun 03, 2016, 4:39 AM UTC

cloudjacker wrote: post #157

themagician wrote: post #145

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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

Post by mickrussom » Fri, Jun 03, 2016, 4:45 AM UTC

Post by tdkl » Fri, Jun 03, 2016, 4:59 AM UTC

ryandrake wrote: post #83

lizardking wrote: post #78

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Yes but the receiver of your email doesn't necessarily have to delete your email, which is the key distinction of what makes the service useful.

That's another thing I don't understand--how is "automatically deleting" a feature? Why would I care if the recipient eventually deletes something I send them? I've literally never given any thought to what people do with E-mails I sent them, since it doesn't affect me at all. They can print it and hang it on their wall or take a screenshot of it and use it as their desktop background for all I care.

Post by WWLink » Fri, Jun 03, 2016, 5:12 AM UTC

alive2007 wrote: post #140

In other news, bananas have surpassed OS X in daily Caloric consumption. I knew Apple couldn't make it without Jobs. People conflate the purposes of various products under the umbrella term "social network", which makes the assumption that all social networks offer arbitrarily similar function. Simply not true. Snapchat offers ephemeral pictoral content with humorous ad-hoc additive filters. This tailors the product…

Post by trevor-e » Fri, Jun 03, 2016, 5:15 AM UTC

justinpombrio wrote: post #158

trevor-e wrote: post #147

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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.