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Post by zmgsabst »

threeseed wrote: post #138
pm90 wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s funny how it’s always the young at the forefront of new tech and rapidly disappear as soon as their parents start getting on the platform. I kinda get this; I used to be on Facebook a lot, then my parents got on there, then all their age group, and that’s when both the experience started sucking (ads love older people with money) and the interactions started sucking (more weird/angry political nonsense/conspirac…

> Older people just ruin social media platforms. Not really. The best parts of Twitter are amongst professional circles where people use their real names and can provide unique insight into topics that you would never get anywhere else. For example all of the open source intelligence with Ukraine or learning about the intricacies of Brexit from actual trade negotiators. Whereas if you look at Reddit right now it is i…

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Post by onewayfunction »

rattlesnakedave wrote: post #103

Snapchat is fun for stupid pics between friends that are meant to be ephemeral, and that’s why I like it. It’s the last social platform where my friends are creating the majority of their content posted as opposed to re-sharing something. HOWEVER- their “discover” pane is full of the most repugnant, degenerate, or otherwise braindead bullshit I have ever seen in my life. If I could pay to turn it off permanently they…

It feels like their discover pane is what happens when you choose to promote (and generate) content entirely based on optimizing for clicks and ignore any long-term retention or engagement implications

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Post by kingcharles »

shoulderfake wrote: post #105
52358 wrote: post #66

I wonder how many people here are aware of Snapchat's thriving underground OnlyFans-like ecosystem. I also wonder how much of that is driving Snap's user metrics. As far back as 2014, I remember there being a huge ecosystem of "premium" snaps (sometimes known as "prem(ium) girls"), whereby you would pay the account owner a one time or recurring fee for access to a "premium" snapchat account where the owner posts nude…

I still don't understand how onlyfans succeeds as a product when there is pornhub etc...someone explain this to me.

Is your argument that there is enough free random porn to make it not worth paying for OnlyFans?

The reason I would pay for OnlyFans content, if I could afford it, is that there are specific creators on there that I find particularly attractive, either physically or personality-wise, and I would love to help fund their lifestyle.

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Post by andrewzah »

threeseed wrote: post #138
pm90 wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s funny how it’s always the young at the forefront of new tech and rapidly disappear as soon as their parents start getting on the platform. I kinda get this; I used to be on Facebook a lot, then my parents got on there, then all their age group, and that’s when both the experience started sucking (ads love older people with money) and the interactions started sucking (more weird/angry political nonsense/conspirac…

> Older people just ruin social media platforms. Not really. The best parts of Twitter are amongst professional circles where people use their real names and can provide unique insight into topics that you would never get anywhere else. For example all of the open source intelligence with Ukraine or learning about the intricacies of Brexit from actual trade negotiators. Whereas if you look at Reddit right now it is i…

"he best parts of Twitter are amongst professional circles where people use their real names"

Real names don't mean anything. Facebook/Twitter/Instagram have people with real names and there's still disgusting behavior and rude interactions. Real names don't mean anything when you're reduced from a person to pixels on a screen, separated by hundreds or thousands of miles.

Reddit provides solace in that people can have more longform, nuanced discussions under an anonymous handle. So they don't have random people scouring through every post of theirs and pulling words out of context, like some witchhunters are doing with old emails.

"Whereas if you look at Reddit right now it is inundated with posts about the Depp/Heard case."

There wouldn't be much to discuss if the case were being handled fairly.

Instead, you've got one party on tape actually admitting abuse of their partner, and yet the victim is the one who loses their career and has magazines printing lies about them. I want you to envision the public reaction to the case if the genders were reversed here.

Any reasonable person can see that this situation is a clear example of unfair double standards, which is why it's being discussed so much. There are double standards for men and women, and I'd wager nearly every man alive right now knows about the double standards men face. That is why reddit, a male-dominated space, is highly interested in this case. This doesn't mean that women don't face double standards, of course, but reddit is not really able to discuss that well.

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Post by dehrmann »

tssva wrote: post #101

My survey of 1 teenager, my 15 year old daughter, reveals that it is the preferred messaging platform for her friends and others at her school. Due to one of her activities she travels regularly along the east coast and a few times a year to other locations across the US. When she makes friends during the trips the preferred means to stay in touch from both parties is SnapChat. So I tend to believe the numbers being…

> everyone's parents are now on Tiktok.

Well that was fast, though with 1B MAU, there almost have to be older people on it.

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Post by andrewzah »

I find it interesting that snapchat still is used by young people and not really by older people.

I remember using it about 10 years ago in highschool, and then college, before I kind of went to nothing and then instagram to keep in touch with some people. I'm 26 now and I know a lot of people that still use it. But unlike facebook/instagram, I don't really know of any people much older than me that started using snapchat.

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Post by 0xdeadb00f »

rattlesnakedave wrote: post #103

Snapchat is fun for stupid pics between friends that are meant to be ephemeral, and that’s why I like it. It’s the last social platform where my friends are creating the majority of their content posted as opposed to re-sharing something. HOWEVER- their “discover” pane is full of the most repugnant, degenerate, or otherwise braindead bullshit I have ever seen in my life. If I could pay to turn it off permanently they…

My friends (we're in our 20s), also share the same disgust for snapchat's discover page.

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Post by bryan_w »

12907835202 wrote: post #102
hardtke wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My teenagers use Snapchat regularly, and Snap Maps seem to be the "killer app" for them. It allows them to see which of their friends are around when they travel or are out and about on the weekends.

Having this on Instagram would be awesome. Instead of a feed of stories in an order being able to see thumbnails of stories over a map and clicking around the map would be far more engaging for me. It would also help me alot as a digital nomad/traveller as it would very quickly let me know which friends are in which cities/countries, as opposed to just the same street as others have suggested. Similarly if you want t…

In Instagram's search interface, you can search for a place and see stories with that place tagged
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