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A Teenager’s View on Social Media

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Re: A Teenager’s View on Social Media

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Post by bcRIPster »

vxNsr wrote: post #166
bcRIPster wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good! Good! Then I wholly expect to see every comment that is stating an obvious concept to now be down modded off of this site. That's really healthy for discussion.

You understand that users are the ones downvoting you, as a relatively inactive user you don't have a downvote button but many of us do and don't like complaints (about downvotes) or broad generalizations ("culturally regressive") that don't add to the discussion. I was with you until you started attacking an entire ethnicity.

Thank-you, I did not realize that. I feel a bit better now about the down votes in that light.

As for you last comment though... are you sure you meant ethnicity? Maybe you meant demographic?

Re: A Teenager’s View on Social Media

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Post by MichaelGG »

dntrkv wrote: post #128
crazypyro wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This article is slanted in favor of Snapchat. You can be the real you, only on Snapchat! "Snapchat isn't like that at all and really focuses on creating the Story of a day in your life, not some filtered/altered/handpicked highlight. It’s the real you."

24/m here. Snapchat has really taken over social communication in my group of friends. It's the number one way to stay in touch on a daily basis. I went from texting 4-5k messages a month, to less than a thousand. If I'm walking down the street and see something I want to share, I'm not gonna post it on Facebook or Instagram because it isn't important enough and you are opening yourself up to be judged by hundreds, i…

Can someone explain to me why adding ephemeral messaging to FB, Instagram, etc. hasn't been done? If Snapchat is really getting so much traction because of one trivial feature, it seems obvious to offer that same feature.

My only interaction with these platforms is having done some work against their (rather poor) APIs, so I may be missing something terribly obvious.

Re: A Teenager’s View on Social Media

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Post by niksethi »

As a slightly younger teen (17), I have a completely different view of Twitter. I'm not sure if it's unique to my specific area, but quite a significant number of the people around me are on Twitter and use it to communicate funny things they see, or just share opinions (I guess the author approaches this with "complain/express yourself"). To me, I go on twitter to see what people are saying about any given event, especially sporting events. At other times, I will find memes or jokes or just anything that is somewhat funny. Overall, the three groups that Andrew brings up aren't really complete.

Re: A Teenager’s View on Social Media

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Post by bcRIPster »

_almosnow wrote: post #229
AndrewKemendo wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is a white, suburban, middle-class, male attending a conservative university in a culturally regressive state. Which is the demographic that all of the services in question care about (except whatsapp) - which kind of proves the point.

>Which is the demographic that all of the services in question care about (except whatsapp) - which kind of proves the point. Hahaha, no way that is true man. Also, bcRIPster, I believe your comments provide a valuable POV, that thing about the demographics, it hadn't ocurred to me. Thanks for posting and don't take the witch-hunt personal, remember that karma is given for people that spend all their time here, they…

Thank-you... beyond that I just learned from another user that even though I've been using this site for years I have never seen a down vote option, so I always suspected it was a mod activity. Now that I know it's just other users doing it I don't feel so bad. Thanks for the kind words :)

Re: A Teenager’s View on Social Media

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Post by krallja »

the_duck wrote: post #227

>The only time I ever hear this application is for the joke, “Aye you got Kik?”, normally seen as someone trying to “spit game” to attract a partner. It’s really difficult for me to describe it here but it isn't super relevant. This paragraph is mystifying. Can someone explain what he's talking about here?

The only time the author hears about Kik is in the quoted joke. In the joke, the admirer asks the object of their affection if they are a user of Kik, rather than asking directly for their contact information. Kik is really difficult for the author to describe on Medium. Luckily, Kik isn't super relevant to the author.

Re: A Teenager’s View on Social Media

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Post by [deleted] »

bcRIPster wrote: post #11
bcRIPster wrote: post #2

While it's an interesting article, I think he's being a bit hyperbolic in translating his local experience out to a generalization. This isn't simply a 19 year olds experience. It is a white, suburban, middle-class, male attending a conservative university in a culturally regressive state. If nothing else, he's about as radically distant from an urban minority as you could get to the point where I'd imagine it is rea…

Ok mods, I'm concerned that I have made some valid criticisms on this article as have others in their comments, yet mine is being down modded into negatives. I'm left feeling this is immature and punitive for a joke I made on a prior news posting where I complained about the down modding. Would someone like to explain just how my criticism is so much more severe as to warrant attack over the other criticisms?

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Re: A Teenager’s View on Social Media

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Post by bcRIPster »

JeremyMorgan wrote: post #97
humanrebar wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> attending a conservative university in a culturally regressive state I didn't downvote you, but I feel like I could have without any guilt. Have you been to Austin? Or any urban center in Texas? They are probably more conservative than Berkeley, but they're definitely blue areas. Especially Austin. I mean, Houston's mayor is a lesbian! See if you can pick out Dallas, Austin, and Houston on this map: http://upload.w…

I imagine Texas is a lot like Oregon. Super Blue in the cities, and super Red when you drive out. But really it's hard to characterize an entire state, especially the 2nd most populated one in the U.S.

I don't know. Every Texan I've ever known likes to name drop Austin to defend their state to the point where it's like saying they've got a black friend so they can't be racists. Or, they let a gay guy hug them so they're not homophobic.

At some point it starts to make you cross-eyed :P

I'm sorry, I'm know I'm poking this subject with a stick. I hope everyone understands the satire and frustration of my statement.

Re: A Teenager’s View on Social Media

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Post by X-combinator »

Many of those younger than me (10–16 years old) who I've talked to about this matter don’t even have a Facebook — Instagram is all that they need.

As a 15 year I totally agree, but Hacker News is one my favorites site because I just love discovering new things on the web(That's the only reason I visit HN)

Also Facebook simply "Stinks"

Re: A Teenager’s View on Social Media

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Post by this_user »

hugs wrote: post #55

Also noteworthy that Google+ didn't even get a mention, even if to mock it.

Are there people who actively use G+? To me it seems to have turned into this weird thing that tries to offer a lot of functionality but doesn't really make it clear what it actually is. It was supposed to be a social network and now it's Google's "social layer" - whatever that may mean. I personally don't even know anyone who would describe G+ as relevant.
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