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Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

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Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

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Post by Hondor »

sasvari wrote: post #173
trevor-e wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Good god why would I care? If you're not interested in what your friends are up to, why are you friends with them in the first place? Maybe they're really just acquaintances? Like you said, maybe it's a difference in attitude. Still, I recommend you giving it a shot to get a better idea of what it is. I also thought it was dumb at first.

> > > 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? > If you're not interested in what your friends are up to, why are you friends with them in the first place? Maybe they're really just acquaintances? if I would care about what every single friend of mine is doing…

Compare sitting at the bus stop alone or with a friend. Which one is more enjoyable? If you prefer to be alone, then maybe you already have too much social interaction and need more alone time. If you prefer to have some kind of personal connection with another human even when there's no obvious practical value in the content of what you're communicating, then I think that's what snapchat provides.

Most people crave this human interaction every day.

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Post by [deleted] »

prawn wrote: post #187
rpgmaker wrote: post #133

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> I don't use SnapChat, but once you have children, your parents and siblings are interested in seeing the funny little day to day things your kids do. No they aren't interested. They are just too nice to tell you to stop spamming them.

Not sure why you've responded in such a presumptive and negative way. I find it rude. Maybe your family isn't close and it's not something you can identify with? My immediate family are always interested. I don't bombard extended family or friends though many still voluntarily follow feeds dedicated to the children.

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Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

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Post by puranjay »

sharkweek wrote: post #15

30something 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…

As a close to 30 something, I've never been able to get Snapchat and I've relegated it to my digital dustbin

Maybe this comment will spur me to give it a shot

Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

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Post by pmlnr »

advertising wrote: post #152

I 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…

> About a year ago I reinstalled as a way to share a trip I was on. It was perfect for that.

Why not taking notes and pull it together in a blog post? Journals are useful for everyone, especially if it's about remote locations and insider tips.

Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

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Post by puranjay »

ChazDazzle wrote: post #55
stormbeta wrote: post #44

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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.

But...why?

Why do you want people to see what you ate?

Is everyone here living more interesting lives than me? I mean, my stories will be just the same old lunch and dinner pics, working before a computer, commuting to and from work...

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Post by puranjay »

xux wrote: post #63
edpichler wrote: post #62

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?

Damn, that's a good point.

I'll use this as my retort to anyone who says they don't want their content to disappear

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Post by demonshalo »

themagician wrote: post #156
kobayashi wrote: post #150

Well, 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 a…

I just wanted to login and say that you are reading my mind. I have been saying this for years but everyone within the industry looks at me as if I am a retarded monkey!

Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

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Post by danmaz74 »

sharkweek wrote: post #15

30something 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 no better way to keep up with friends and family digitally than via Snapchat Stories

Disclaimer: I'm one of those who don't "get" snapchat, so I'd like to get this explained by somebody who does. Do you use snapchat to just have fun with friends and family from time to time, and some other way to keep up with the important things in their lives - like talking in person, phone, facebook, whatever?

Because I really don't understand how can you do the latter with such an ephemeral service...

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Post by zelcon »

stormbeta wrote: post #105
ChazDazzle wrote: post #55

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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).

Snapchat is just another fad in the undying trend of reinventing email "in new and exciting ways."

Re: Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage

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Post by whyoh »

rrggrr wrote: post #28

My 77 year old father forced himself to learn Twitter. Why? Financial news. My journalist friends live on Twitter. Why? Breaking political news. People I follow in national security circles... on twitter. After a certain number (age or users) its not about quantity but quality.

>its not about quantity but quality.

This sounds weird to me, because Twitter seems the epitome of quantity over quality.

Even with my carefully selected RSS feeds I feel overwhelmed by all the news I get in a day. I can't imagine following news on Twitter where people think it's perfectly OK to post a new tweet every 10 minutes.

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