Looking past the obvious verbatim copy. Have we reached the point where everyone is completely sick of another way to "share", update, and post every moment of our lives. It's really exhausting. Is this a function of getting old?
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#12Looking past the obvious verbatim copy. Have we reached the point where everyone is completely sick of another way to "share", update, and post every moment of our lives. It's really exhausting. Is this a function of getting old?
What! Didnt that video of the cool kids having fun inspire you to share your awesome life stories?
I do get where you are coming from. I dislike snapchat because while it may be a way to share something silly its not a serious way to communicate. I have a friend that tries to use it for this and drives me nuts.
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#14Looking past the obvious verbatim copy. Have we reached the point where everyone is completely sick of another way to "share", update, and post every moment of our lives. It's really exhausting. Is this a function of getting old?
What! Didnt that video of the cool kids having fun inspire you to share your awesome life stories? I do get where you are coming from. I dislike snapchat because while it may be a way to share something silly its not a serious way to communicate. I have a friend that tries to use it for this and drives me nuts.
Add it to my list of things I don't "get". Photos are something I intend to keep, that's why I'm taking a picture.
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#15I think that Facebook and other companies need to consider that it's better to change nothing than add the wrong feature. This blurs the lines too much with Snapchat. If I still used Instagram when they added this feature, I would stop using it in favour of Snapchat. (But I've already stopped using Snapchat since they feature-creeped all the way into photo backups.)
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#17This is Facebook's third attempt at trying to compete against Snapchat, this time with the exact same name as their product. I guess third time's a charm. Interesting though that they're only implementing the most basic features (drawing over a video?), and not the more interesting and fun face tracking stuff that Snapchat does now. Personally, I can't see this being successful. Snapchat will remain to be a quick and…
I've stopped using Insta for the most part. I'm an old and I feel like Snaps are just more fun for me. The major issue with that is a lot of my friends haven't caught on yet. Insta just feels like it has too many buttons and notifications from spammers flying at me. They lost the plot from the simple app they used to be a long time ago. Plus the new algorithm change is terrible for me. Every time I open the app I see…
Yeah anecdotally, my in app time for Snapchat vs Instagram flipped once they changed the feed. Twitter was even worse, I don't use it anymore. How insane would it be if your email inbox didn't sort chronologically?
I don't know what cohorts Facebook is looking at. Are they seeing a drop in engagement but balance it doesn't matter because of the revenue stream from advertisers? Or may be the bulk of users have increased engagement with a non-chronological feed? Perhaps more users than I realized follow over 1,000 users and the chronology value was lost a very long time ago.
Oddly enough I'm finding myself returning back to RSS feeds. Lots of excellent independent bloggers still out there who actually write useful things. edit: and photographers.
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#18This is Facebook's third attempt at trying to compete against Snapchat, this time with the exact same name as their product. I guess third time's a charm. Interesting though that they're only implementing the most basic features (drawing over a video?), and not the more interesting and fun face tracking stuff that Snapchat does now. Personally, I can't see this being successful. Snapchat will remain to be a quick and…
I don't think there is much overlap between Snapchat and IG user bases, so I think this is more about adding well-received features as opposed to directly competing. In other words, they are leveraging all the time and effort that Snapchat put into developing a mature feature.
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#19I had to check that it's not April 1st.
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#20This is Facebook's third attempt at trying to compete against Snapchat, this time with the exact same name as their product. I guess third time's a charm. Interesting though that they're only implementing the most basic features (drawing over a video?), and not the more interesting and fun face tracking stuff that Snapchat does now. Personally, I can't see this being successful. Snapchat will remain to be a quick and…
I don't think there is much overlap between Snapchat and IG user bases, so I think this is more about adding well-received features as opposed to directly competing. In other words, they are leveraging all the time and effort that Snapchat put into developing a mature feature.
Just an anecdote, but the majority of people I follow on snapchat have an instagram.