Snapchat Is for Flirting • Hacker News Board

Re: Snapchat Is for Flirting

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Post by et-al » Fri, Mar 10, 2017, 12:49 AM UTC

> “If I have a guy’s number from Tinder, sometimes I’ll prematurely save it on my phone so it comes up in Snapchat if he uses it. I probably won’t add him immediately, but I’ll try and deduce his Instagram or other handles from his Snapchat one.”

As an aside, it might be a good idea to check privacy settings for Snapchat (I know, I know.. if you're already using it, you're blown) unless you want to be humblebragging.

Last year, I noticed women I had gone on dates with were coming up as suggested people to follow on Instagram. IG claimed it was because of photos I liked, but I knew that wasn't the case and assumed it connected us through our numbers and the other women did not turn off their discoverability (I had turned off mine). Call me old fashioned, but Instagrams and Tweeters are things I don't share until the 3 or 4th date.

Re: Snapchat Is for Flirting

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Post by civilian » Fri, Mar 10, 2017, 12:50 AM UTC

shahryc wrote: post #13

I'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?

It might be a submarine or PR firm action, but it might also simply be that they're a billion dollar company that just had an IPO, so articles about them are simply timely.

I don't really put much merit into journalists saying something is good or bad. shrug

Re: Snapchat Is for Flirting

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Post by Apocryphon » Fri, Mar 10, 2017, 12:52 AM UTC

k-mcgrady wrote: post #18

Apocryphon wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Sure, but that convenience still depends on what they want. Something they can share and then throw away within 24 hours, or something that they want to keep so that future followers can look at.

Re: Snapchat Is for Flirting

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Post by jknoepfler » Fri, Mar 10, 2017, 1:05 AM UTC

It's a shill account posting ad-news. Please exercise skepticism.

Re: Snapchat Is for Flirting

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Post by jknoepfler » Fri, Mar 10, 2017, 1:06 AM UTC

It's a shill account posting ad-news. Please exercise skepticism.

Re: Snapchat Is for Flirting

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Post by jknoepfler » Fri, Mar 10, 2017, 1:08 AM UTC

civilian wrote: post #22

shahryc wrote: post #13

I'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?

It might be a submarine or PR firm action, but it might also simply be that they're a billion dollar company that just had an IPO, so articles about them are simply timely. I don't really put much merit into journalists saying something is good or bad. shrug

A zero history account thought it was really important this wound up on hn. It's almost certainly paid-for content.

Re: Snapchat Is for Flirting

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Post by mnglkhn2 » Fri, Mar 10, 2017, 1:22 AM UTC

Snap needs to push the stock and hence the media blitz.

Re: Snapchat Is for Flirting

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Post by CydeWeys » Fri, Mar 10, 2017, 1:24 AM UTC

sbierwagen wrote: post #7

pcmaffey wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this _emphasis_ a meme I'm not aware of, or are you just copying the parent's particular usage?

It's common convention that's a couple decades old at this point, also included in markdown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown#Example RFC 7, from May 1969, used it: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7.txt

Correction on that RFC: The 1969 version was handwritten, and likely did not use underscores for emphasis (who does that in handwriting?). It was typed up electronically in what looks to be 2002, and plenty of examples of the underscore notation exist prior to then.

Re: Snapchat Is for Flirting

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Post by Empact » Fri, Mar 10, 2017, 1:27 AM UTC

Not just for flirting either.

My old standard rubric for workplace culture was adoption of slack - if you hadn't opted for it over synchronous communications or lesser asynchronous tools, you were backwards.

Now I look to snapchat. We have a group at my current company (8 people) and it's a well of humanity in what otherwise might be a stodgy professional environment.

Re: Snapchat Is for Flirting

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Post by intopieces » Fri, Mar 10, 2017, 1:28 AM UTC

swampthinker wrote: post #3

Some people are posting these very in-depth essays about Snapchats success, as if there was some deeper meaning to a picture that doesn't reappear. To be perfectly frank as a young adult, Snapchat was great for flirting. As more friends joined, I also found it to be a fun way to talk to friends. There is nothing more to it than that. Came for the sex, stayed for the filters.

I'm still having trouble processing the idea that a person could have used Snapchat as a young adult to flirt and is now not a young adult. Then again I still think of Twitter as being new and not really having a place.