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A Teenager’s View on Social Media

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unixpunx wrote: post #124
ahussain wrote: post #15

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Facebook is also great for events. You can invite people you know even if you don't have their other contact info. I think you might struggle to 'bring everyone over' to a better group service. Part of the draw of facebook is that is everyone is already 'over'.

I don't know anyone working in tech that uses facebook. That would be like being an obese fitness instructor, your actions and your knowledge would be at constant conflict. Only explanation would be that these people are either lying or insane (psycho-/sociopath).

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Post by Nagyman »

mmphosis wrote: post #152
smackfu wrote: post #114

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It's 50/50 that I even have my friends email addresses. Facebook messaging covers 99% of the need.

But, don't you need an email address to sign up to these sites in the first place?

Yes, but that doesn't mean one has shared that email address with one's friends or vice versa.

People have email addresses to sign up. Once signed up, the social connections are made on the platform.

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Post by dysoco »

17/M/Argentina

I'm not really into Social Networks, I guess you can tell by the fact that I'm on HackerNews. However I can provide some insight in what's the panorama in the other half of the world.

Facebook is still king, everyone uses it, everyone has it. I use it exclusively for groups (school group, friends group) since it's easy to post questions or info in there and make sure everyone reads it. I also use it to chat with people (although via Pidgin, I barely go to facebook.com). I do see however a huge ammount of traffic in my feed. So I guess it's not going anytime soon.

Whatsapp is hugely popular. Everyone uses it, even for work related stuff. I'm not sure why it's not as popular in the US/Europe (I guess because of iMessage?) But calls/SMS are barely a thing, everything is Whatsapp now. Sadly, I'm not a big fan of it, it's great for sending quick messages and talk something in a group, but people here use it for everything which means I have to get my hands off the keyboard and type in a tiny touch screen to talk with someone. You usually get randomly added to Whatsapp groups too, where you get invited to parties and stuff like that, I'm not a big fan of this either, since it's really easy to miss a message. However, I reckon my social life has improved considerably since I got Whatsapp because of all the invites I get now.

Twitter has gotten very big lately too, I started using Twitter about 3 years ago, and I mostly use it to follow tech people and get news, probably the same way most of you use it. However, my friends use it as some kind of Facebook. They tweet everything they are doing, and they also maintain conversations using it. I think this is silly, I don't know why they do it, you can know everything about someone by just reading his Twitter feed.

Instagram is not huge but it's catching up. It's mostly used by girls and hipster/cool/popular guys (not sure how to describe them). I never go there and I really don't care.

Snapchat/Tumblr/YikYak are not even thing, heck, I don't even know what YikYak is supposed to be.

I wish more people would start using IRC, but well, I guess that's not happening.

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Post by onewaystreet »

[deleted] wrote: post #27
joshstrange wrote: post #10

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I disagree, none of my friends use WhatsApp and I've never heard them mention it. It's all about group texts or FB chat groups. (I am 23)

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WhatsApp is mostly used outside the US where SMS usage is too expensive.

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Post by sliverstorm »

crazypyro wrote: post #131
spigoon wrote: post #113

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The title clearly says "A Teenagers View on Media". It's not a little disclaimer at the bottom of the page that says "This is only my view". It's right in the title and opening paragraph.

Right, but I think it serves the same purpose. People willingly ignore it. Either way, the original poster I responded to with the anecdote wasn't even the author of the article, but someone on here who provided another anecdote, but didn't give the same such warning or any indication that they knew what they were saying wasn't an actual relevant argument....

People willingly ignore it.

Then it's their own darn faults.

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Post by calvin99 »

philangist wrote: post #170
calvin99 wrote: post #142

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Uh.. Could it be that people under 13 are not allowed on Facebook?

People under 18 also aren't allowed to watch porn, and people under 21 definitely can't drink.

Fair but I was suggesting that Facebook is really only useful if you have friends but when you or your friends can't signup or their parents won't allow them to signup (in my case), there's not much reason to use Facebook.

It is kind of like not needing LinkedIn until you're in college.

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Post by koyote »

ajcarpy2005 wrote: post #203

I'm surprised that with all those less popular social networks listed, Google+ was not. I'm pretty sure Google+ has a higher user 'population' than YikYak, WhatsApp, GroupMe, etc.

WhatsApp has over 700 million users and I'd bet a much higher percentage of active users than G+ (although that is just a guess).

I have not even heard of the others though until now.

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Post by Fuzzwah »

_broody wrote: post #191
stinos wrote: post #26

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it's as though they are posting not to show people stuff but to get people's approval for what they are posting Yes that's what lives pretty strong in that generation - and on social media in general, I have the impression. For some that goes really far, maybe too far, and people become unhappy or even depressed if they are not seen/approved by others. Which is like in real life, but also at the same time not quite:…

The endless attention-whoring and KIRF posturing invading my newsfeed constantly is why I gave up on social media. I'm much more at ease without it.

I had to search for the meaning of the acronym, figured I'd post it here for anyone else in the same boat:

Keeping it Real Fake

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Post by dntrkv »

shampine wrote: post #209
dntrkv wrote: post #115

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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, b…

Obviously nothing stays around forever. But there is a big difference between a trendy app that everyone uses for a couple years and then stops, and Facebook, which many people don't use on a daily basis but still keep it around because its usefulness outweighs the effort required to keep your account. I have friends who have deleted their Facebook accounts, only to come back a month later with a very basic account just because they need to keep in touch with some circle of friends that they otherwise wouldn't be able to.
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