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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 erroneousfunk »

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #3

This is filled with gems that old farts like me (I'm 30) don't have any idea about. If I don’t get any likes on my Instagram photo or Facebook post within 15 minutes you can sure bet I'll delete it. Super interesting take - it's as though they are posting not to show people stuff but to get people's approval for what they are posting. Simple but critically different in my opinion. Facebook is often used by us mainly…

> it's as though they are posting not to show people stuff but to get people's approval for what they are posting.

I don't think it's as simple as "please like me/please approve of this" but there's also a component of "Oh, you don't like this -- I won't bother anyone else with it, sorry about that!"

Re: A Teenager’s View on Social Media

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Post by AndrewKemendo »

superuser2 wrote: post #157
AndrewKemendo wrote: post #3

This is filled with gems that old farts like me (I'm 30) don't have any idea about. If I don’t get any likes on my Instagram photo or Facebook post within 15 minutes you can sure bet I'll delete it. Super interesting take - it's as though they are posting not to show people stuff but to get people's approval for what they are posting. Simple but critically different in my opinion. Facebook is often used by us mainly…

>Got it, so make a better group service and bring everyone to that. You are going to need significant value-add to convince people to bootstrap their identities and social graph all over again. Snapchat did it by piggybacking on "people who have each other's phone numbers." Tumblr did it by not doing it - the social network is deliberately separate, and you have to be much closer to someone for them to tell you their…

I will never use your service if I have to sign up, confirm my email address, add friends, convince them to sign up and actually check it

Isn't this exactly what snapchat did though - except with a phone number instead of email?

Re: A Teenager’s View on Social Media

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Post by evandena »

fargolime wrote: post #179
swalsh wrote: post #14

I have never felt so old reading a post :D What I find interesting is the stark contrast to people's predictions from years ago. I can recall the speculation about how in a world of facebook our lives will be documented forever, and the problems that will cause. That very real concern seems to not only have been well received, but they seem to be taking precautions. Unexpected, but very encouraging!

Feeling old too. I do_not_get the need to post the highlights of your day throughout the day. It reeks of narcissism. I feel sorry for them, in my oldness.

I'm curious if this demographic will outgrow that need.

Re: A Teenager’s View on Social Media

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Post by rewqfdsa »

Animats wrote: post #158
bgun wrote: post #19

many have nailed this on the head. It’s dead to us. The next few paragraphs then go on to describe Facebook as essential social plumbing. I think an FB product manager would be delighted to hear that Facebook is "dead" in this way. This is precisely why the most successful social network of its generation was built, first and foremost, to be a platform rather than a cocktail party.

What he's saying is that Facebook is a great contacts directory, because everyone is on it. But most of the other features are useless. (Recently, most of the features of Facebook broke for the combo of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Firefox 34, and Ghostery. Messaging and notifications still work most of the time, but many of the other features just stall, probably waiting for some tracker. This turns out to be a feature, not a…

> many of the other features just stall, probably waiting for some tracker.

Ubuntu adds a Firefox extension for integrating some web sites into the desktop. It's incredibly buggy and, IME, frequently breaks on Facebook. Try disabling the extension in Firefox.

Re: A Teenager’s View on Social Media

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Post by onewaystreet »

crazypyro wrote: post #89
jonreem wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm about the same age as the poster and he's captured my age groups' experience of social media, including Snapchat, perfectly. Snapchat really is that big a deal.

Except these are all just anecdotes. I'm in the same age group and Snapchat use has definitely fallen off considerably on my college campus and some of my high school friends' campuses as well. The only thing that would prove any of this is real data, which seems to be lacking in every claim....

A few people in the comments are also saying they've seen a drop off in Snapchat usage at their schools, but that hasn't been reflected in the app's ranking in the app store. Snapchat has maintained a top 10 rank for the last year.

Re: A Teenager’s View on Social Media

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Post by corndoge »

fargolime wrote: post #179
swalsh wrote: post #14

I have never felt so old reading a post :D What I find interesting is the stark contrast to people's predictions from years ago. I can recall the speculation about how in a world of facebook our lives will be documented forever, and the problems that will cause. That very real concern seems to not only have been well received, but they seem to be taking precautions. Unexpected, but very encouraging!

Feeling old too. I do_not_get the need to post the highlights of your day throughout the day. It reeks of narcissism. I feel sorry for them, in my oldness.

What makes it different from normal narcissism is that it is /mutual/ narcissism. Nobody would post the highlights of their day throughout the day unless there was the potential for others to respond positively to it and give you social gratification.

Disclaimer: 19 y/o who uses only Snapchat, and that perhaps four or five times a week max.

Re: A Teenager’s View on Social Media

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Post by shampine »

dntrkv wrote: post #115
rando3826 wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> we wouldn't dream of not being on FB And 10 years ago I wouldn't dream of not having my ICQ friends. Your dreams are not the /most/ relevant.

And just because it's happened in the past does not guarantee that it will happen again. People have been predicting the downfall of Facebook for years, but it keeps growing.

It will, I can think of a ton of services I've used in the past that one day you just stop logging on. You don't even remember the last day of using them, just one day you stop. Then slowly everyone stops. (E.g., AOL, AIM, Geocities, IRC^, MySpace, and most recently Path & Instagram).

I assume the same will happen in my life for Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, etc. One day I will just stop.

^I use IRC for dev stuff now, but there was a good 5 years where it was no longer a part of my life. I was a gamer who played CS in the early 2000s.

Re: A Teenager’s View on Social Media

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Post by nosequel »

dgcoffman wrote: post #182

Just tried Yik Yak after reading this. In SF's FiDi, appears to be mostly dudes looking for gay hookups. Am I doing it wrong?

It just takes posts from 10 miles around your location. If you are in a location with primarily homosexual population, I'd imagine you'd get mostly posts like you did.

I live near a university, so all I see is drinking, smoking, classes, roommate drama, and hookups.

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