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Re: My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens”

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Post by mattdeboard »

abrkn wrote: post #83
cubano wrote: post #33

I am the very proud father of a 14yo girl whom I have turned into an teenaged IT guru over the years. She learned to read at age 3 using the very well done "Cat In The Hat" desktop program, and since then I have turned her on to everything from Gmail at age 6 to Ableton at 12. I've decided that Snapchat is where it ends for me/us last year...she needs something to be hers and her friends alone, without "Dad" poking i…

"i luvu" via Gmail Ouch. Right in the onion sensor.

seriously. Memories of my 12-year-old doing the same.

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Post by zenocon »

awakeasleep wrote: post #93
codeshaman wrote: post #65

These young people are addicted to their phones and snapchat. Later on in life, when they 'grow out' of snapchat, they will replace the addiction with something else - some other app, but also food, drugs or sex. Whatever thing they will find interesting, they will pursue it with the same pattern that they learn with these apps / games. This future generation will have to find a way to live with all this addictive te…

We're all addicted to a million things (by this definition of addiction) It's only negative when that becomes a problem somehow in your life. It's not even clear to me that we'd be better off with a fully mindful approach to every pleasure and activity. What is unhealthy though, is disparaging everything other people enjoy. Especially when you don't have the courage to say "I don't like it" but couch your disapproval…

it sounds to me from reading that article that her use of it is somewhat problematic.

Re: My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens”

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Post by mkhalil »

josephpmay wrote: post #60
DiabloD3 wrote: post #35

The most damning thing about Snapchat: ME: I’ve seen how fast you do these responses… How are you able to take in all that information so quickly? BROOKE: I don’t really see what they send. I tap through so fast. It’s rapid fire. I closed the tab at that moment. That alone proved Snapchat has no relevancy to anyone, and is a waste of time and money.

99% of people don't use Snapchat this way, at least from my experience

Can confirm. Score of > 30k.

Re: My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens”

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Post by conductr »

state wrote: post #107

It's interesting to hear everyone saying 'ah, I'm too old for Snapchat'. At face value I feel that way too, but I think there's something more going on here. Snapchat strikes me as a really unique modality. It's not really a message type that we can draw some kind of lineage back to PARC or Bell Labs or whatever. Slack follows a familiar pattern of 'oh yeah, that's just like IRC and they had those running on Altos a…

I agree with your view and I'm still too old. Being old is more of a reason of not having a group of friends on SC. I'm sure I could pick it up the weird app but, for me it's a medium I need to experience with real friends and I don't see that happening

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Post by plainOldText »

Outdoorsman wrote: post #109
ceocoder wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

man this is scary for me, I'm about to have a baby girl (she already has a Gmail account), I know I'm far from the "dad doesn't get 'it'" phase, but it is still scary. Do you have any tips to make this transition easy?

I have four kids...two in college now...the other two are on track to be in a few years...I get compliments on them all the time... The number one piece of advice I can give you is to suspend any preconceptions you have, consciously or unconsciously, about the kind of person they will be...don't force them into some mold you have in mind for them...they will be separate and distinct beings from birth...treat them as…

This is very nice advice. Thank you!

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Post by anon4 »

gavman wrote: post #29

It's amazing that at age 22 I've already seemingly "aged-out" of being an early adopter/power user of new social media (not that Snapchat is new, but I use it maybe once or twice a day and I've never even heard of "Triller" and "VSCO"). My 15 year old sister is always rolling her eyes telling me how to "correctly" use my existing social media apps and I've never heard of most of the new apps she's into.

I didn't know how to use Facebook when I was 18, so don't feel too bad. We grew up on IRC and PHPBB, social networks of fundamentally different make than the ones in use now.

Plus, you are (were) one of the dorks and your sister is one of the cool kids. The two groups have noticeably different modes of socialising.

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Post by codeshaman »

awakeasleep wrote: post #93
codeshaman wrote: post #65

These young people are addicted to their phones and snapchat. Later on in life, when they 'grow out' of snapchat, they will replace the addiction with something else - some other app, but also food, drugs or sex. Whatever thing they will find interesting, they will pursue it with the same pattern that they learn with these apps / games. This future generation will have to find a way to live with all this addictive te…

We're all addicted to a million things (by this definition of addiction) It's only negative when that becomes a problem somehow in your life. It's not even clear to me that we'd be better off with a fully mindful approach to every pleasure and activity. What is unhealthy though, is disparaging everything other people enjoy. Especially when you don't have the courage to say "I don't like it" but couch your disapproval…

> disparaging everything other people enjoy

I think you're always overgeneralizing everything...

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Post by ceocoder »

Outdoorsman wrote: post #109
ceocoder wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

man this is scary for me, I'm about to have a baby girl (she already has a Gmail account), I know I'm far from the "dad doesn't get 'it'" phase, but it is still scary. Do you have any tips to make this transition easy?

I have four kids...two in college now...the other two are on track to be in a few years...I get compliments on them all the time... The number one piece of advice I can give you is to suspend any preconceptions you have, consciously or unconsciously, about the kind of person they will be...don't force them into some mold you have in mind for them...they will be separate and distinct beings from birth...treat them as…

Thank you very much, and congratulations on raising great kids. I'm really looking forward to the time ahead, the first few years are really fun - this is the time when you as a parent (or uncle/aunt) are a superhero to the child, you can do no wrong.

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Post by lurkinggrue »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #19
AaronLasseigne wrote: post #16

It's a video game for her. She doesn't look at the photos in the morning, she just responds to keep the chain going. It's like grinding. She has a score, tries to improve it, get trophies, new equipment (I mean filters), etc.

Yet Another Skinner Box. EDIT: At least SpaceX and Tesla won the Crunchies instead of junk like Snapchat.

I'll stick with Neko Atsume.

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Post by ambicapter »

Tactic wrote: post #52
Avalaxy wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry for being an old-ass as well, but wasn't snapchat created to send nudes to other people in a way that they are automatically erased and can't be saved? I don't know if people still use it like that, but do you feel comfortable letting your 12 years old daughter use something like that?

As an old-ass father of 3 that pokes here and there I can tell you that does happen. However, that is hardly the point of it. It is because everyone needs to be able to say and do things that aren't recorded. That go away. And kids need space to experiment and grow in ways they are not watched. Honestly, from what I can tell it is used far more for making funny faces and moments than anything else. Besides, if you ar…

Yes, but you know snapchat pictures aren't really deleted right? 'Temporary pictures' is a proposition that doesn't actually exist in the digital realm, and certainly not when a VC-backed company is proposing it.
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