The Selfies are Coming. The Selfies are Here (Part 2)
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#2"you like that Miley Cyrus is twerking or you aspire to be a photographer"
Or I aspire to be Miley Cyrus's twerk photographer.
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#3Why does the service impose a mandatory expiration date on selfies? There are candid photos of me that I didn't like at the time but now (and some of this is just plain old bei familiar with them) are amusing and valuable to me.
This is a cool side project and I hate to do a serious critique of it...but since the OP decided to go the pithy Medium essay route, I'll take it he's sincere about thinking these this through. Here's my critique: the world doesn't need a constant stream of the ordinary. Ignoring the damage of enviousness, many FB users suffer from just spending too much time being interested in other people's lives...and that's just the highlights. What mental appetite or capacity do we have to consume all the mundane moments too?
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#4Fascinating article. I like their perspective and that the app is getting some traction. The whole notion of romanticism vs. realism is an interesting one.
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#5Why does the service impose a mandatory expiration date on selfies? There are candid photos of me that I didn't like at the time but now (and some of this is just plain old bei familiar with them) are amusing and valuable to me. This is a cool side project and I hate to do a serious critique of it...but since the OP decided to go the pithy Medium essay route, I'll take it he's sincere about thinking these this throug…
These aren't really candid photos, as I understand it; you take a photo of yourself, and you prepare yourself for it.
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#6Why does the service impose a mandatory expiration date on selfies? There are candid photos of me that I didn't like at the time but now (and some of this is just plain old bei familiar with them) are amusing and valuable to me. This is a cool side project and I hate to do a serious critique of it...but since the OP decided to go the pithy Medium essay route, I'll take it he's sincere about thinking these this throug…
This is discussed at length in the article. It was found that having an expiration lets people worry less about getting the photo "right". Also, it's not about having another place to waste time living vicariously. Quite the opposite, as it's becoming a vibrant community where you can actually interact in a surprising way.
That said, it is worth experimenting with the dates and/or ways of saving certain images of yourself for posterity.
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#7Why does the service impose a mandatory expiration date on selfies? There are candid photos of me that I didn't like at the time but now (and some of this is just plain old bei familiar with them) are amusing and valuable to me. This is a cool side project and I hate to do a serious critique of it...but since the OP decided to go the pithy Medium essay route, I'll take it he's sincere about thinking these this throug…
This is discussed at length in the article. It was found that having an expiration lets people worry less about getting the photo "right". Also, it's not about having another place to waste time living vicariously. Quite the opposite, as it's becoming a vibrant community where you can actually interact in a surprising way. That said, it is worth experimenting with the dates and/or ways of saving certain images of you…
That's an argument for an optional timeout, but it doesn't explain having a mandatory one.
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#8The world totally needs this.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is discussed at length in the article. It was found that having an expiration lets people worry less about getting the photo "right". Also, it's not about having another place to waste time living vicariously. Quite the opposite, as it's becoming a vibrant community where you can actually interact in a surprising way. That said, it is worth experimenting with the dates and/or ways of saving certain images of you…
That's an argument for an optional timeout, but it doesn't explain having a mandatory one.
True. I suppose the answer is that it was not the goal of the app to be in the photo storage/memories business. Looking at ways to help with this use case though, such as letting you save your own images to your camera roll.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is discussed at length in the article. It was found that having an expiration lets people worry less about getting the photo "right". Also, it's not about having another place to waste time living vicariously. Quite the opposite, as it's becoming a vibrant community where you can actually interact in a surprising way. That said, it is worth experimenting with the dates and/or ways of saving certain images of you…
That's an argument for an optional timeout, but it doesn't explain having a mandatory one.
Mandatory timeout means that even the best photos go away. No proliferation of the beautiful and perfect, no buildup of the quick and dirty.
Every one dies.