Snapchat, You've Made a Huge Mistake

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Post by etanz » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 2:12 PM UTC

Snapchat, You've Made a Huge Mistake
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Post by mrlase » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 2:33 PM UTC

You've been able to see this online now for... a long time. Just go to http://www.snapchat.com/; and you can see it.

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Post by seanponeil » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 2:36 PM UTC

This feature has been around since launch I believe

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Post by cmelbye » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 2:37 PM UTC

mrlase wrote: post #2

You've been able to see this online now for... a long time. Just go to http://www.snapchat.com/ ; and you can see it.

I'm glad someone pointed this out. This feature has always existed. You didn't even have to do it through your web browser, Snapchat has always had a link within the app to view the profiles of your friends (including their "best friends").

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Post by hydralist » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 2:38 PM UTC

yeah it has been at launch and it is brutal. does clearing your feed delete your top friends? they badly need a way to clear or disable top friends, otherwise using snapchat with the opposite gender is a jealousy-magnet-clusterfuck with significant others when they see it... speaking from experience

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Post by bluetidepro » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 2:42 PM UTC

As many have already pointed out in other comments, it definitely was already a feature. I would just add that I think the author still has a valid point, though, because this new update does bring a lot more light on that feature. I would say before this update, it was a pretty "hidden"/unknown feature. I wonder if more users will speak up about it in their reviews now that it's much more obvious to access that information.

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Post by leephillips » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 2:42 PM UTC

"Facebook makes it extremely clear that they never give away this information"

Not a quick learner, I'm afraid.

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Post by tylerhowarth » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 2:42 PM UTC

This has been part of the product since launch. Not a huge mistake.

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Post by jmathai » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 2:44 PM UTC

This has been circulating in my mind for some time now. It seems to me that Silicon Valley is so obsessed with "home run" start ups that we've lost track of caring if they make our lives better.

I'm not necessarily making a moral judgement on Snapchat but I do think it is something to consider. You can see the same mentality around Chatroulette. I realize the value of something is not concrete at first; Twitter comes to mind. I think we all agree that Twitter plays an important role in society today, yet that was unclear a few years ago.

As a society, are we rallying behind an app that helps people engage in extramarital affairs as this post suggests? Without getting into morality, don't we agree that affairs impact not just the two participants but the families surrounding them?

Are we simply justifying our obsession with "success" by attributing some theoretical benefit when the drawbacks seem obvious?

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Post by Pxtl » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 2:46 PM UTC

leephillips wrote: post #7

"Facebook makes it extremely clear that they never give away this information" Not a quick learner, I'm afraid.

Exactly. They wouldn't give it away. They'd sell it at an exorbitant price. That's not giving it away.