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Re: Tenth Grade Tech Trends

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Post by justhw »

kunle wrote: post #5

Curious - all of our parents' preferred methods of communication cost money...letters, long distance phone calls, mobile phone calls. All of Josh's sister's (and her peer sets) methods of communication cost nothing (Instagram, Facebook, Kik, Twitter, Tumblr). Just an observation. Implications of this? Will companies one day pay us to talk to each other?! Separately - isn't Skype basically Facetime over 3G/4G (and not…

Josh's sister's (and her peer sets) methods of communication cost nothing

You gotta have a data plan to access these from anywhere. Most schools don't have wifi. So, the actually can cost more than phone calls, letter etc...

Re: Tenth Grade Tech Trends

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Post by GuiA »

JacksonGariety wrote: post #3

Being an 11th grader I can honestly say this is bizarre since I associate so well with both Josh and his sister at the same time. Kids use social media differently than the middle-aged.

Josh being in his 20s, it's funny to see that high schoolers already consider us "middle aged" :)

Re: Tenth Grade Tech Trends

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Post by schoash »

kunle wrote: post #5

Curious - all of our parents' preferred methods of communication cost money...letters, long distance phone calls, mobile phone calls. All of Josh's sister's (and her peer sets) methods of communication cost nothing (Instagram, Facebook, Kik, Twitter, Tumblr). Just an observation. Implications of this? Will companies one day pay us to talk to each other?! Separately - isn't Skype basically Facetime over 3G/4G (and not…

In my point of view, skype is way too slow on ios. It takes ages to load and lags somehow.

Re: Tenth Grade Tech Trends

#16

Post by prostoalex »

martythemaniak wrote: post #7

"she swore all of her friends would use if one of my “entrepreneur friends” built it: a FaceTime-esque app that’s free." I don't get it - aren't there a ton of video chat apps? Not only the big ones (google, skype), but lots of startups as well - oovoo, etc?

Must be the data consumption part. AT&T starter package is 300 MB a month.

Re: Tenth Grade Tech Trends

#17

Post by kunle »

justhw wrote: post #11
kunle wrote: post #5

Curious - all of our parents' preferred methods of communication cost money...letters, long distance phone calls, mobile phone calls. All of Josh's sister's (and her peer sets) methods of communication cost nothing (Instagram, Facebook, Kik, Twitter, Tumblr). Just an observation. Implications of this? Will companies one day pay us to talk to each other?! Separately - isn't Skype basically Facetime over 3G/4G (and not…

Josh's sister's (and her peer sets) methods of communication cost nothing You gotta have a data plan to access these from anywhere. Most schools don't have wifi. So, the actually can cost more than phone calls, letter etc...

Fair point actually - didn't consider that the cost is embedded. That said, How often are those the data hogs? (Anecdotally from myself, I rarely come near the data caps). My assumption is that even today, video apps are the most data intensive - outside of those, are folks hitting their data caps on a regular basis?

Re: Tenth Grade Tech Trends

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Post by jtchang »

Sure there are a lot of FaceTime like apps. But the problem is none of them have done a phenomenal job marketing to their demographic to really take market share.

There are also a great deal of drawbacks to FaceTime which make it expensive. It costs cell data? That's expensive! It takes a lot of bandwidth? Also expensive.

The point is that there are so many rough edges around the product that it makes it a pain in the ass to use. Slow choppy video is also a problem.

Re: Tenth Grade Tech Trends

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Post by kunle »

schoash wrote: post #15
kunle wrote: post #5

Curious - all of our parents' preferred methods of communication cost money...letters, long distance phone calls, mobile phone calls. All of Josh's sister's (and her peer sets) methods of communication cost nothing (Instagram, Facebook, Kik, Twitter, Tumblr). Just an observation. Implications of this? Will companies one day pay us to talk to each other?! Separately - isn't Skype basically Facetime over 3G/4G (and not…

In my point of view, skype is way too slow on ios. It takes ages to load and lags somehow.

I experience this also. In addition, the UI is kludged into iOS - they just did their best to port the desktop UI. It works, as apps go, but obviously wasn't built from the ground up for mobile.

Re: Tenth Grade Tech Trends

#20

Post by k-mcgrady »

I don't think the Facebook issue has anything to do with their brand. I think the attitude that Facebook is addicting actually has more to do with people becoming bored with the service and noticing how much time they actually spend on it.

Edit:

>> "... my friends and I used Myspace in middle school, and we too abandoned it (for Facebook) once we reached high school"

The conclusion drawn here might be incorrect. I'm not sure of the age of the author but could it be that he reached high school at the time when Myspace had fallen out of favour with most people and everyone was beginning to transition to Facebook?

It's an interesting post, particularly the part about Snapchat. His sister's use of it seems to fit with the way Facebook was advertising Poke (I thought they just had to find another angle besides sexting but it sounds like there are other uses for it). After hearing this description it sounds like something I might use. A lot of the photos I share on Twitter/Instagram and things I find interesting or funny but I never need to see again. I usually have to then go and delete them from my camera roll and occasionally I go back through my Instagram feed and delete them. The idea of Snapchat (expiring images) seems to be what I need.

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