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offtopic: Are you from Buenos Aires?
Yes, but not from the City, from the coast.
ok, please check for my e-mail to your gmail account. Thanks.
Tenth Grade Tech Trends
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#72Interesting to me are the generational service abandonment patterns. The author mentions abandoning MySpace moving into highschool like the subject graduates past Tumblr. It's symbolic of the maturing nature of the individual. In the future perhaps social networks will find a way to iterate their brand with each generation to prevent losing users to another new service.
And if these patterns hold how can any social media service be the next big anything?
People just want a consistent interface to communicate. There's no UX reason to separate email, facebook, instachat twumblr or whatever from each other.
Yes there are different reasons for communicating but they can all function under one roof. The next big trend of sending pokes with 12 second color corrected videos that get deleted after watching can live inside Facebook, G+, or TwEmail 3.0
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#73I'm also a 15 years old teenager living in Argentina, but here things are somewhat different. First, no one has a "real" smartphone, most are cheap Nokia phones with some applications for Facebook: People who have money usually buy BlackBerries, I have a Samsung Galaxy Ace (Being an Android fan) that I bought in Spain: but truth is smartphones are really expensive. Facebook... everything is about Facebook here: Teena…
The person who figures out how to get teens to spend their free time learning instead of socializing is going to go down in history. The answer likely lies somewhere in the socializing, but I have no idea what it is. And way to take advantage of the myriad of educational opportunities that exist online. I would have done anything for access to them when I was a kid; instead, I had to go to the ( gasp ) library. I thi…
Yeah, that's pretty insightful. I can sort of see it happening with games - both Words With Friends and Brainbow Numbers are about playing turn-by-turn while socializing, I'm not sure if you can take games beyond trivial disciplines though.
A social game to learn a foreign language would be interesting.
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#74I'm also a 15 years old teenager living in Argentina, but here things are somewhat different. First, no one has a "real" smartphone, most are cheap Nokia phones with some applications for Facebook: People who have money usually buy BlackBerries, I have a Samsung Galaxy Ace (Being an Android fan) that I bought in Spain: but truth is smartphones are really expensive. Facebook... everything is about Facebook here: Teena…
ask.fm sounds very similar to formspring ( http://www.formspring.me ). Formspring used to be popular about two years ago.
ask.fm grew more than 5000% in Latin America this past year
http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press_Releases/2012/12/Arge...
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#75I'm also a 15 years old teenager living in Argentina, but here things are somewhat different. First, no one has a "real" smartphone, most are cheap Nokia phones with some applications for Facebook: People who have money usually buy BlackBerries, I have a Samsung Galaxy Ace (Being an Android fan) that I bought in Spain: but truth is smartphones are really expensive. Facebook... everything is about Facebook here: Teena…
The person who figures out how to get teens to spend their free time learning instead of socializing is going to go down in history. The answer likely lies somewhere in the socializing, but I have no idea what it is. And way to take advantage of the myriad of educational opportunities that exist online. I would have done anything for access to them when I was a kid; instead, I had to go to the ( gasp ) library. I thi…
I think learning is inherently social.
Part of the problem is the mindset that creates a false dichotomy between "learning" and "socializing." One consequence of this mindset is the idea or impression that "learning" involves locking oneself in a room, opening a book, and sticking with it until one learns the material.
An example in language acquisition: http://www.ted.com/talks/patricia_kuhl_the_linguistic_genius...
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>> The person who figures out how to get teens to spend their free time learning instead of socializing is going to go down in history. Shouldn't teenage years be spent having fun? :) For some learning is fun (I enjoyed it to a certain extent and used things like iTunes U a lot) but even if there was a way to learn that was fun for everyone most teenagers will still want to go to parties, drink alcohol, and waste tim…
Going to parties, drinking alcohol, and wasting time is a form of learning. How to live life, how to make mistakes, and where you're going to fit in in the world is probably one of the most important thing you learn as a teenager.
Getting trashed is developmentally harmful to pre-18 brains, getting pregnant or knocking someone up or getting a disease is not helpful, and there are easier ways for most people to learn than to make horrible and even irreparable mistakes very early. Also, bad habits often survive into adulthood. This isn't where anyone should be forced to fit into the world until after they have a real chance to decide.
If a kid learns to have just one drink, don't be a junkie, use protection and waste time only judiciously by 18, they will be able to learn more from higher education or career than if they learned it's good to act like a mindlessly hedonistic animal with no concept of the future.
You can spend your first 40 years sticking your tongue into electrical sockets, this is technically some form of learning, but it's not a great way to have a good chance in life. There is all the time in the world to waste and act stupid, after you have the basic bearings of adulthood.
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#77I don't understand why FaceTime is viewed as expensive. Isn't it free? I guess you pay for data, but 95% of the time I'm on wifi (home, office), and I'd assume schools, wherever kids spend time (coffee shops?), etc. have wifi too.
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Don't they have debit cards in their own name?
Pretty hard to do if you're under 18, banks want a legally responsible person to own the account.
Debit cards in theory do not allow any debt, thus there's not so much of a problem allowing under 18s to have them.
See this UK account for 11 to 18 year olds which allows a debit card.
(http://www.rbs.co.uk/personal/current-accounts/g1/young/revo...)
HSBC give you a savings account when you're seven, and add a current account when you're 11, with a VISA debit card.
(https://www.hsbc.co.uk/1/2/current-accounts/under-18-bank-ac...)