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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…
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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 pai…
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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
Or maybe the same convention might have even been used before typewriters, to mark up manuscripts? (A manuscript needs clear instructions to the typesetter, because someone’s handwriting might not make the distinction between Roman and Italic scripts immediately obvious.)
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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.
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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 pai…
^badjoke
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…
Oh, 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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A zero history account thought it was really important this wound up on hn. It's almost certainly paid-for content.
Yeah, I flagged the story because of this. Let the mods decide what to do.
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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.
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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 pai…