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I was staring dumbfoundedly the entire time. It blew my mind, and made me realize how out of touch I am in my 27 years of age.
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Because facebook is full of companies and old people. Snapchat is not about snapchat, it is about having a space to themselves.
And ten years from now, the kids are going to want to have a space for themselves, after all the companies and old people are on Snapchat.
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.
This article is quite interesting to read, but I still hate to use Snapchat.
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You are not the typical user. You can just get an unlimited tarif and be done with it.
> You can just get an unlimited tarif and be done with it. Um, if you're in the U.S. probably not. Most have some kind of limits even on 'unlimited' such as your connection goes to ISDN speed. Even my cable modem has a 350GB a month cap which I occasionally exceed.
Yeah... but in Germany the biggest cap available is 10GB for 25€ (http://www.billiger-telefonieren.de/mobiles-internet-verglei...) and these are data-only SIMs, truly unlimited does not exist for us.
On the other hand, while shockingly low caps are generally accepted on mobile, people do protest whenever a provider tries to place caps on landline (VDSL, DOCSIS) contracts.
Is this the behavior of the average snapchat user or that of a power user? That's the key question.
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…
There's product placement. He namedrops "Treller" and "VSCO". The article isn't "How to upgrade your style", it "How to become a Snapchat user." Even his conclusion is "I'll try more", just like you tell yur teacher when you've failed and you know you'll fail again. I don't doubt the person is authentic, but I wonder how much he has worked with BuzzFeed to tune the article. Still, 1. Snapchat's design is remarkable f…
VSCO is definitely a phenomenon amongst teenagers, regardless of the product placement possibilities in the article. I'd actually have rather seen an article on that, because I find it fascinating that a service without any of the Skinner-box gratification buttons ("like" "retweet" "share" "comment") has taken off in such a big way.
> BROOKE: OMG!! 30?? Only NARPs have less than 150. > ME: What the hell is a NARP? > BROOKE: Nonathletic Regular Person. NARP. Wow, I feel old.