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A 13-Year-Old's View on Social Media
- wilozxc 11y agoI wrote this article a while back but I never posted it to the Hacker News community. I would love to get feedback on the article.
- wilozxc 11y agoIf anyone is interested here is the part 2: https://medium.com/@Go_Soroush/do-13-year-old-s-even-know-what-facebook-google-snapchat-vine-and-twitch-are-7e2fbb285c44 https://medium.com/@Go_Soroush/do-13-year-old-s-even-know-wh...
- wilozxc 11y agoIn the part 2 I look at some more social media platform like Faceebook, Vine, Youtube and others.
- oelmekki 11y agoI'm surprised seeing Kik in there. I remember seeing it years ago (like, really long ago), and thought it never took off. Do you have any idea how they managed to acquire a teenager user base?
- wilozxc 11y agoI think it's a mix of a lot of things:simplistic UI, being one of the first IMs that don't need a phone number and also when everyone has it you have to have it to so... it only grows exponentially from here. Last thing people underestimate how viral kids and teens are one teen can literally convert his/her class in one day.
- wilozxc 11y agoAlso interestingly I get that question all the time and I've discussed it with the CEO of Kik.