That's nice and all, but are they going to make money, with Instagram breathing down their neck?
Snapchat Is for Flirting
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#12I was in a long-distance relationship last summer, and Snapchat definitely helped us. Not even from the sexting angle of it-- Just seeing someone's face, or seeing what someone else is seeing, makes you feel far more connected than plain text messages.
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#13I'm noticing a lot of very positive stories bout Snapchat (WIRED --- Snap’s IPO Made Its Employees Millionaires—Why Not DJ Khaled?, CNBNC --- Here are all the ways Facebook has copied Snapchat). What's going on here? Is Snapchat using PR firms to prop up the stock after the analysts downgraded the stock earlier this week?
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#14I'm noticing a lot of very positive stories bout Snapchat (WIRED --- Snap’s IPO Made Its Employees Millionaires—Why Not DJ Khaled?, CNBNC --- Here are all the ways Facebook has copied Snapchat). What's going on here? Is Snapchat using PR firms to prop up the stock after the analysts downgraded the stock earlier this week?
pg's explanation: http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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#15I was hooked to Snapchat when I saw the live story of hikers from mountain Everest, it was incredible following their journey. It was live, it was intimate and it was from their point of view, I loved every moment of that story.
Now I follow my friends' s stories, send each other silly messages and so on.
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#16Oh, I thought people didn't really send direct Snapchats much anymore. But still, I could see using the app for this purpose. But I think over time, people will mostly just move over to Instagram.
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#17For the longest time, I found Snapchat to be the silliest thing ever. I didn't understand how Evan could have possibly turned down Facebook's $3B… But then, I started _really_ using it, and something clicked. Snapchat enables serendipity in the digital world. Unlike traditional social networks, where people curate their image, limit the amount they post, and where a smart feed decides what you see, on Snapchat people…
I think if Instagram Stories really does prove to be the death knell of Snapchat, it won't be because of Snapchat being inherently flawed, but because of the fickle tastes of the public swinging the pendulum of spontaneity vs. curation back towards the latter part of the spectrum.
I'd still have to sign up for a Facebook-controlled service. Pass.
It might slow migration from Instagram to Snapchat, though.
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#18For the longest time, I found Snapchat to be the silliest thing ever. I didn't understand how Evan could have possibly turned down Facebook's $3B… But then, I started _really_ using it, and something clicked. Snapchat enables serendipity in the digital world. Unlike traditional social networks, where people curate their image, limit the amount they post, and where a smart feed decides what you see, on Snapchat people…
I think if Instagram Stories really does prove to be the death knell of Snapchat, it won't be because of Snapchat being inherently flawed, but because of the fickle tastes of the public swinging the pendulum of spontaneity vs. curation back towards the latter part of the spectrum.
I don't think that's to do with taste. More convenience. People already have large followings on Instagram and discovery is much easier. You're already posting there and now you can do stories without having to go to another app and build another following.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
That and Snapchat is just _fun_, in a way that Facebook with its serious Pharmaceutical blue logo isn't, despite Facebook's sleekness and clean UI. Everything from the filters, to the little badges you get for streaks and best friends, to the moving selfie picture in the little ghost, adds to the effect. Maybe Snap will stick around and maybe it won't but I've already found myself reaching for snap to send an image o…
Is this _emphasis_ a meme I'm not aware of, or are you just copying the parent's particular usage?
Well great, I feel super old now.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
That and Snapchat is just _fun_, in a way that Facebook with its serious Pharmaceutical blue logo isn't, despite Facebook's sleekness and clean UI. Everything from the filters, to the little badges you get for streaks and best friends, to the moving selfie picture in the little ghost, adds to the effect. Maybe Snap will stick around and maybe it won't but I've already found myself reaching for snap to send an image o…
Is this _emphasis_ a meme I'm not aware of, or are you just copying the parent's particular usage?
It's old emphasis from at least the IRC heyday era (where I picked it up), likley earlier as some of the sibling comments allude to. Interesting, HN takes asterisk characters around text and parses it to italics like this, but I tended to know that as meaning bold font emphasis, with /this/ as italics.
Regardless, it's certainly an old habit