I don't know anyone over 18 who uses Snapchat besides celebrities.
a lot of college students.
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#12I don't know anyone over 18 who uses Snapchat besides celebrities.
Opposite for me. I don't know many people over 18 who don't use Snapchat. Even parents of most my peers(late 20s - mid 30s) use it. It has largely replaced iMessage or SMS for exchanging dumb pictures of day-to-day things (e.g. Your dog doing something silly/cute)
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#13I don't know anyone over 18 who uses Snapchat besides celebrities.
As some anecdata, my mid-twenties group of friends and I use snapchat frequently. My brother is a freshman in college and he uses it with his friends as well.
For whatever reason, starting "streaks" has become popular with my friends, where the same friends will snap me everyday and expect a snap in reply so that our counter of consecutive days increases over time. I hate to admit it, but I enjoy this gamification of the service, and it has resulted in me checking snapchat everyday for more than 650 consecutive days. I know it's been that long because that is my longest snap streak, but the truth is that I am rarely the one that breaks the streak so it has probably been much longer than that. There is also definitely a feeling of disappointment and relief when a large streak is broken.
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#15Maybe it's just that my phone (Nexus 5X) is getting old, but Snapchat is probably the worst Android app I've ever used. Not sure how the iOS experience is.
Let's go down the list:
- HUGE (>300 MB)
- Extremely Slow/Laggy UI
- Battery Suck (mainly because it auto turns on location services, etc.)
- Sometimes soft bricks my camera (need to restart in order to use my normal camera app)
I only use it to stay in the loop of my family members, maybe I should start campaigning everyone to switch to Instagram.
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#16I don't know anyone over 18 who uses Snapchat besides celebrities.
Just wanted to say as a 20-25 year old, snapchat is still extremely popular among people I know. The perception is snapchat for friend's daily lives, instagram for following celebs/creators and permanent posts, facebook for events and extended family, and messenger for email/wechat/whatsapp functionality. It's the primary way I keep in contact with acquaintances, and many other people I know are the same.
It's a more intimate version of social media that is typically only used by smartphone-savvy people and it's perfect for this. I see nothing besides my friend's content and a few ads between viewing their stories, while instagram inserts ads and algorithmically sorts content in the feed. Once I go through every one of my friend's stories, there's nothing to keep me on the app and endlessly scrolling like instagram. To me and others, insta is intentionally addictive Posting permanent posts there about your life can sometimes come across as vain, while snapchat is more of a window to view your friend's world through and gives very open statistics like who has seen a story, if someone has opened a snap, etc.
I have my problems with snapchat, like poor android support, slow startup time, bloat, and sponsored stories on the right side are tabloid trash. But it's still very heavily used in America. Most friends outside of the US say that it declined in use in their European or african countries like a fad, but it's become a standard in the US. Those of you saying it's useless besides teenagers using it to sext or not knowing anyone above 18 that uses snapchat look out of touch or like you're pushing an agenda. It might be declining but it is still a large force and very used!
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#17> Snap employees complain about his dictatorial management style and penchant for secrecy.
This is not too surprising to me. I remember how he actively worked towards preventing Snapchat from existing on the windows (phone/mobile) platform, purely due to Microsoft hate. This went as them going out of their way to targetedly fight third party windows phone apps until that indie dev gave up disappointed. That was pretty pathetic.
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#18> The meeting I attended started with an employee lighting a candle in the center of the circle to dedicate the session to a cause, and then proceeded with a series of free-association prompts. A moderator asked us to tell a story about our names or a memory related to summer.
This seems to me more like a cult than a company but maybe it works.
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#19Maybe it's just that my phone (Nexus 5X) is getting old, but Snapchat is probably the worst Android app I've ever used. Not sure how the iOS experience is. Let's go down the list: - HUGE (>300 MB) - Extremely Slow/Laggy UI - Battery Suck (mainly because it auto turns on location services, etc.) - Sometimes soft bricks my camera (need to restart in order to use my normal camera app) I only use it to stay in the loop o…
> - Sometimes soft bricks my camera (need to restart in order to use my normal camera app)
Skype manages to do that on Android as well recently (while it used to work fine before).
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#20Maybe it's just that my phone (Nexus 5X) is getting old, but Snapchat is probably the worst Android app I've ever used. Not sure how the iOS experience is. Let's go down the list: - HUGE (>300 MB) - Extremely Slow/Laggy UI - Battery Suck (mainly because it auto turns on location services, etc.) - Sometimes soft bricks my camera (need to restart in order to use my normal camera app) I only use it to stay in the loop o…
Not sure how big the app is on iOS, but the app works really well for me. I've been really surprised with how quickly they can add features without breaking things. (At least they don't break my normal usage.)