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Snapchat Is for Flirting

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Re: Snapchat Is for Flirting

#31

Post by cft »

SeoxyS wrote: post #2

For 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…

Someone I know quit FB at the age of 22, when his grandma tagged a girl that he liked and commented "you'd make such a great couple" or some such. Age separation is a big deal.

Re: Snapchat Is for Flirting

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Post by danappelxx »

cft wrote: post #31
SeoxyS wrote: post #2

For 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…

Someone I know quit FB at the age of 22, when his grandma tagged a girl that he liked and commented "you'd make such a great couple" or some such. Age separation is a big deal.

Holy cringe... this is exactly the reason I tend to avoid Facebook in favor of the Instagram and such.

Re: Snapchat Is for Flirting

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Post by kilroy123 »

cft wrote: post #31
SeoxyS wrote: post #2

For 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…

Someone I know quit FB at the age of 22, when his grandma tagged a girl that he liked and commented "you'd make such a great couple" or some such. Age separation is a big deal.

Oh yeah. With your grandparents, mom, friends, etc. watching. You barely post anything.

I think the biggest place where facebook fails, is making it easier to segment people and create groups.

Where you can easily setup a group, of say friends, and you can more openly post. Without telling grandma about how you dropped LCD at the concert two days ago and had a wild time.

You _can_ do this now, but it's clunky and painful.

Re: Snapchat Is for Flirting

#36

Post by kilroy123 »

adiabatty wrote: post #17
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'd still have to sign up for a Facebook-controlled service. Pass. It might slow migration from Instagram to Snapchat, though.

They've added it to WhatsApp as well. Which has like 1 billion users around the world. Also now facebook controlled.

Re: Snapchat Is for Flirting

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Post by aeontech »

This is actually the first explanation of snapchat's appeal that makes sense to me. I guess my friend group doesn't really use it though, there's not much use for it unless you have an existing social group to interact with?

Re: Snapchat Is for Flirting

#38

Post by jedbrown »

SeoxyS wrote: post #2

For 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…

It doesn't bother you to have the perception of privacy without actual privacy? Like being alone, except for the hidden cameras.

Re: Snapchat Is for Flirting

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Post by chejazi »

Snapchat is all about being yourself, and not having to worry about it. Creating such an experience naturally biases the app toward privacy and intimacy, but I wouldn't say the app is for flirting. It just happens to also cater well to those wanting to flirt.

It clicked with me when I watched a video by the CEO [0] where he contrasts the spontaneous, ephemeral expression of identity in Snapchat with the long-lived, accumulated identity in other platforms such as Facebook. Without having to worry about this entire paper trail of your past self, Snapchat sheds a lot of the anxieties that would otherwise inhibit expression.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykGXIQAHLnA

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