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Why I love Snapchat

• is_this_tinder 11y ago
  "then it disappears"
• soneca 11y ago
  "The cost of content creation is extremely low, and Snapchat makes it fun to think about what aspects of what I’m doing every day might be cool for other people to see." But what is the reward of content creation? Honest question. How do a user feel their effort in posting was worthy? I never used Snapchat, so I don't get it much. Although I'm for sure not dismissive as some, I just never tried it.
  • squeaky-clean 11y ago
    It's incredibly easy to post to your story (you can also take a snap, and send it privately to certain people, which will notify them, while also posting to your story), so there's really not much effort involved. I agree with the other commenters, that a reply to your snap (directly through the app, or in person at a later time) is pretty nice. One of my favorite little things, though I don't know if it's common with other users, is my friends will often have a sort of open "conversation" indirectly with each other through their stories. Last weekend, a friend of mine posted snaps of her working on some ambient music to her story. So I posted some snaps of me playing a synth. She posted snaps of her playing her synth. Another friend posted to his story him playing his piano, then another friend just playing the Mario Bros theme on a keyboard. And this continued for a few hours until my "Stories" section was just filled with friends playing music.
  • Touche 11y ago
    The reward is when someone replies to your snapchat, it's social validation.
    • CIPHERSTONE 11y ago
      Your comment really speaks to a larger problem that social media would appear to have created, that being a "need" for as you put it social validation. You hear stories about people becoming severely emotionally distressed because they only get a low number of "likes" an confront friends for not "liking" or commenting. It just feels (to me at least), that this is a problem. Granted before what we consider to be the electronic age of social media, this kind of validation existed -- for example, getting a phone call from a friend would give one a similar level of validation - I have a friend! He/She likes me enough to call me!" - it wasn't something someone expected to happen every ten minutes and it wasn't something that required you to do anything.t Now that we are all connected, we post, we expect validation that someone has read the nugget we posted. Yay! Friends! I dunno, just strikes me as something to be leery of..
  • TheBiv 11y ago
    The reward are those random bits of validation you get from friends that say to you in real life "I loved your Snap the other day" and when your friends directly respond on snapchat
    • soneca 11y ago
      Smart! That plus striking comment: "You can see the number of, and names of, the people who view/screenshot your Story." That ocasional and random reward that make something addictive (like what keep you checking your email all the time, at last receiving that one useful/interesting email in the middle of several useless one). Contrasting to predictable Facebook likes that are measured solely by quantity. I end with the impression that is a more genuine connection than the commoditized "FB like" and more personal than the "Retweet" and "FB share" that are performed by people you don't even know.
      • jonesb6 11y ago
        With cash I can buy happiness, if I get a Facebook Like, Twitter follow, snapchat view, I feel happy, therefore Social media validation is like cash.
  • striking 11y ago
    You can see the number of, and names of, the people who view/screenshot your Story. Other replies to your comment are right about individual Snaps, but I think the article is mostly talking about the Story feature.
    • Jordrok 11y ago
      "There’s no public view count, follower count, likes count, or any other social dick-measuring contest. You can just put whatever you’re doing on Snapchat; if people don’t like it, who gives a fuck, you’ll never know." Hmm...I guess you guys are talking about somewhat different things - a public viewer count that you can compare to other people vs a private one that only you can see. It still feels a bit contradictory to me though. I would imagine that being able to see how many people view something you post and who they are still rewards the same type of attention-seeking, dick-measuring content - just to a somewhat lesser degree.
      • oldmanjay 11y ago
        Maybe it's the difference between admiring your dick in the mirror and hanging it out the window.
  • parfe 11y ago
    Maybe someone replies. Maybe they don't. It's a low effort way of saying "Hey, I find this thing is worth 10 seconds of your time." My friend sent me a snap of her niece throwing a temper tantrum. It was funny. I chuckled. It disappeared. We got lunch weeks later, and I asked if her niece ever calmed down. She laughed, we moved on. She got to share a funny moment in her life with me (and presumably other people) because she thought I might be interested. If she posted on facebook? You'd have people asking what was wrong, giving advice on how to calm a child, commenting about child abuse, and writing essays about the ethics of posting children to social media. Whatever.
    • soneca 11y ago
      So Spapchat achieved what Path tried limiting friends? Real connections with real friends. Funny thing, went to Path.com now and find out two interesting things: i) they have two apps at the same website now - Path, the social network and Talk, a messaging app; and ii) they don't even mention the 150 friends limit anymore (contrasting that it was the core feature and the epicenter of their launch campaign)
      • parfe 11y ago
        altonzheng got it right I think when he wrote I had a similar revelation a while back with Snapchat. Users complain that you can't create groups to send to, you have to manually select each person. I like this - it means when you receive a snapchat, you know that person intentionally selected you to share a part of their life with. It adds a subtle but meaningful quality to a message that could be considered spammy and impersonal https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10860501 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10860501 Snapchat requires you to select who you want to see your snap. There's no facility to push into everyone's feed. I'm not sending it to my "Friends" or my "Family" without consideration. You aren't going to click 200 people, or 150, or 50. You're going to think "These five people really love hiking." Or "My cousins were talking about adopting a husky." Or "Last time I burned bacon like this was with John and Jane." Saying "you can only have 150 friends" wasn't the key to a more personal experience. It just meant there was a hard limit on how many people could spam you. The key for me is the tiny marginal cost of sending something to N+1 people, so instead you choose more thoughtfully.
  • toomanybeersies 11y ago
    I don't believe that Snapchat offers content creation. Given that nothing actually persists, is it really content? I feel that it's content as much as small talk with a coworker is content, it's more filler than anything actually substantial. Now if I was to have a discussion about some technical issue or whatever, that would be creating content, but Snapchat is hardly the ideal, or indeed a feasible platform for that.
    • justin 11y ago
      Exactly what people said about video of people playing video games "not being content." Content you don't want to watch or don't understand is still content if other people want to look at it.
    • NoahTheDuke 11y ago
      Is content only content if it lasts forever?
  • SpaceCadetJones 11y ago
    To contrast with some other snarky responses, for me Snapchat has very little to do with "social validation". Personally snapchat is another tool for me to connect with people. I get to see what people are up to on their shared stories, we exchange cool/funny things we see, and my musical friends and I exchange short videos of what we're working on. It's a little more humanizing than pure text chat. I only text/chat with a few people on a regular basis, but there's about 10 people I exchange snapchats with pretty frequently. It's a nice way to keep in touch, and it's a platform I tend to share on more than Facebook. The content is only there for 24 hours, and is only seen by the ~50 people I added rather than the 800 on Facebook.
  • dorian-graph 11y ago
    The reward for me is just having fun with friends. Laughing at each other's snaps, just keeping up-to-date with what we're doing, seeing things that remind you of each other, etc. Having no # total of followers publicly available and the usual metrics encourages this too.
  • mehwoot 11y ago
    But what is the reward of content creation? This is actually one of the reasons I like it- it is deliberately counter to a lot of social media. There is no like button, no retweet count, no permanent record- just ephemeral little moments you share with friends, and occasionally they'll mention that they liked one of your snaps to you. To me, it feels like social media in a way it can actually enhance our lives- it encourages you to share moments but once they are over, it's gone, and there are no statistics that you can use to obsess over whether you are fulfilling your social media potential.
• jonknee 11y ago
  I've had a similar experience, opening the app a couple times over the years and never using it in any way. I just don't get it. Maybe it's time for another try.
  • ehaughee 11y ago
    Personally I find my enjoyment requires a group of friends that enjoys what I send and I enjoy what they send for the most part. So it can be a chicken and egg problem for sure. I've unfriended friends on Snapchat because I don't want to see pictures of their food. However, as I don't have a facebook, I find that Snapchat can keep me closer to my geographically remote friends in an wonderfully informal way. There's no "Heyyy! How are you?" followed by that forced how's life exchange of meaningless small talk. I get a pic of a friend on a rooftop bar and I know she's alive and having a good time. As someone who initially thought Snapchat was stupid, and doesn't typically engage in social media, I get that someone could dislike it or not see the point. For me, Snapchat fits a niche in communication I didn't know I had.
• goeric 11y ago
  Great post from somebody I respect tremendously. One thing I feel like he didn't touch on, which I feel like is most important, is that there's no public comments on Snapchat. People post without much need for validation and without fear of backlash.
  • justin 11y ago
    Good point! I didn't think about this much specifically.
• publicfig 11y ago
  Even though I've been pretty active with and supportive of Snapchat from the beginning, I had always thought of it as a fad that would die off pretty quickly. I also was quick to judge negatively any new features or modes of using the app - such as chat, stories, filters, etc.- assuming it was diluting the brand. At least so far, I have been incredibly wrong almost every time (other than the payment feature, that never really took off to my knowledge). It's pretty impressive how they've managed to not only stay relevant, but bring people into a content sharing platform that was initially a novelty and now a pretty major method of communication, at least with some people within my social circles.
• gt565k 11y ago
  They've added some interesting features like stories from your city or events near you which are a subset of videos hand-picked from different people who submitted them for that event/location. This is really handy if you want to get a sneak peak into some event near you that you were unable to attend. In addition, you can do real time face-to-face video chat, just like face-time. They've also been pretty smart about the implementation of it. If 2 people are snap messaging (not video, just text) and they both have the chat window open, the snapchat camera icon would start glowing blue, signifying that you can initiate a face-to-face video chat with the person.
• minimaxir 11y ago
  The problem I have with Snapchat is that there are many deliberate, counterintuitive UI/UX decisions which make the app hard to use. This causes a lot of bad post-hoc rationalization from many startups that "Snapchat is a multibillion dollar startup, and they have these bad UX features, therefore if we have these X features we will be successful too!" And thus the startup ecosystem as a whole gets dragged down.
  • kneel 11y ago
    I think the UI is great, it took me a couple of times playing around with it to map everything out but once I got that down it became incredibly easy to use. Swiping to move between screens (there's only 4 main views) is very fluid and easy to navigate.
  • onewaystreet 11y ago
    I often see people over 20 complain about Snapchat's UI/UX, and yet the app has millions of daily users. I don't think it's successful in spite of its UI/UX, so there is something to be learned there if you are developing a new social app.
    • dceddia 11y ago
      I wonder about this actually... Thinking of how our parents or grandparents might be able to use a computer just fine but they can't find their way around a flat mobile UI -- Is the Snapchat UI just a new paradigm that we old people don't get? 10 years from now, will this kind of UI design be pervasive? What if UIs are evolving and we're being left behind?
    • JeremyMorgan 11y ago
      Yup. 38 here, and I can barely use it. My teenage daughters do it just fine (they were the ones who talked me into signing up). Although I am very technical the UI kills me. As a teen I think there are less mental barriers, assumptions and the like who picked it up just like I picked up DOS and Windows 3.1 when I was a teenager.
    • JeremyMorgan 11y ago
• altonzheng 11y ago
  I had a similar revelation a while back with Snapchat. Users complain that you can't create groups to send to, you have to manually select each person. I like this - it means when you receive a snapchat, you know that person intentionally selected you to share a part of their life with. It adds a subtle but meaningful quality to a message that could be considered spammy and impersonal.
  • DarkTree 11y ago
    I completely agree with this. Every time I get a snap from someone who I'm not super close with, I can't help but feel happy that they specifically selected me. In return, I tend to send snaps to my fringe friends more often to let them know I'm thinking of them as well.
• hendzen 11y ago
  I think the DJ Khaled's use of Snapchat in particular is genius. The popularity of his Story feed really struck me when I was talking to a couple high-school aged relatives earlier this week. Me: "So do you have any New Years resolutions?" Kid 1: "They don't want you to have resolutions." Me: ?? Kid 2: "Resolutions are the key to success!" ================================= After that exchange, I think there are going to be a lot of musicians/actors/politicians making heavy use of Snapchat Stories in 2016.
  • xeromal 11y ago
    Can you explain that a little more? I totally missed that conversation. Haha.
    • owenversteeg 11y ago
      DJ Khaled commonly says things like "They don't want you to (insert relatively normal thing here, like watering plants)" and then after doing that thing he'll say "(thing) is the key to success!"
  • Lanari 11y ago
    But the reason why it's famous is because it's a meme now, so it doesn't count...
    • quest88 11y ago
      Khaled makes little quips on snapchat all the time. One of them is e.g. "They don't want you to eat breakfast!", following the "They don't want you to ___" mantra he has. Then he usually finishes up with "Breakfast is the key to success.". Silly yet fun things like that. He has even started a store with these phrases: http://wethebeststore.com/products/key-to-more-success http://wethebeststore.com/products/key-to-more-success See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zXWpjhoewE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zXWpjhoewE for a compilation.
      • quest88 11y ago
• vdnkh 11y ago
  I wish Snapchat wasn't actively hostile to the WP market. They have outright refused to make an app and when the third party app 6snap appeared (which was quite good), they fought and had it removed. Rudy Huyun, the developer, even offered Snapchat the source code for free. Evan Spiegel even went so far as to mock the platform. http://www.windowscentral.com/how-you-cant-get-snapchat-windows-phone-whole-sorry-saga http://www.windowscentral.com/how-you-cant-get-snapchat-wind...
  • urda 11y ago
    Unfortunately it's their product and they can do as they wish with it. If this includes not building it for WP, well that's life. 6snap wasn't their app, and yes they had every right to have it removed from the WP store. That's how the game is played, if one doesn't like it then don't use Snapchat.
    • city41 11y ago
      Conversely if apps are important to you, Windows Phone may not be the best choice.
  • iLoch 11y ago
    I don't know.. Releasing a Windows Phone app means maintaining a Windows Phone app. Cost of maintenance for a userbase that is like 2% globally isn't worth while for most companies.
  • johnloeber 11y ago
    I have no data on this, but I'm willing to bet you that Snapchat is explicitly marketed to young people, and young people don't have Windows phones. The WP is basically a pariah as far as integration with social media is concerned because it's at the bottom of every company's priority list. Beyond that, young people are generally quite image-conscious, and having a Windows phone seems both weirdly non-conforming and, by affiliation with Windows, terribly boring.
  • eDameXxX 11y ago
    And there is even more. Snapchat sent lawyers to his home. Couple interesting tweets from his profile. https://twitter.com/RudyHuyn/status/685190102285332480 https://twitter.com/RudyHuyn/status/685190102285332480 https://twitter.com/RudyHuyn/status/685190708215418880 https://twitter.com/RudyHuyn/status/685190708215418880 https://twitter.com/RudyHuyn/status/684913520295542784 https://twitter.com/RudyHuyn/status/684913520295542784 https://twitter.com/RudyHuyn/status/684908488389079040 https://twitter.com/RudyHuyn/status/684908488389079040
• jmduke 11y ago
  I was about to make a snarky comment disagreeing with Justin -- as one of those folks who can't deal with Snapchat, I think it's a weird encapsulation of a lot of my complaints of newer social apps. The UX feels deliberately confusing and disorienting; it promotes a culture of manufactured intimacy; I have to deal with a bunch of software developers thinking they're hip by saying 'bless up' and flooding their social media presences with key emojis, as if a celebrity culture disseminated via Snapchat is different than any other celebrity culture. I also don't really understand how you can write an article saying Snapchat is unmanufactured and not a "social dick-measuring contest" while using DJ Khaled as your main example (and ending with an "add me on Snapchat!"). But this article is titled Why I love Snapchat, and not Why Snapchat is the best. And honestly -- I know a lot of people who love Snapchat. And that's totally cool! Software that creates joy is almost always a net positive thing, and even if I don't really dig Snapchat I'm glad that other people do. It's okay to love software, even if its flawed or not the ~~ future of media ~~ or whatever. I loved Glitch, a game that hopefully Stewart Butterfield will revive at some point. I love Reddit, even though I find a substantial and growing chunk of its userbase/content to be somewhere between abysmal and appalling. (Just please, stop with the key emojis.)
  • justin 11y ago
    To address some of your points: I think celeb culture's existence on Snapchat and other platforms doesn't have much to do with what I wrote about how Snapchat works. You get feedback in the form of private snaps and messages, not public #s of comments and likes. So, it isn't a public competition. This is true for celebs and for myself and for every day users. But it still feels nice to get positive feedback (like someone telling you offline "I like your snaps", or someone snapping you a response to your Story). Getting more friends on it increases private, positive feedback.
    • kobayashi 11y ago
      I think it's great when an article author responds to an HN comment. Good on ya for joining the conversation.
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• fascinated 11y ago
  I love that 2016 is when many notable SV people finally got excited about Snapchat
  • justin 11y ago
    I know -- I think I'm actually a late adopter.
  • indraneel24 11y ago
    I love the DJ Khaled is the Oprah (https://twitter.com/oprah/status/1542224596 https://twitter.com/oprah/status/1542224596) of Snapchat
• Splendor 11y ago
  I also grew to love Snapchat over the last few months. But then I got a Nexus 5X and the Snapchat app performs so poorly on this device that I rarely open it any more.
• duderific 11y ago
  > the content doesn’t have to be that good, because it is going to disappear anyways, and everyone else’s content isn’t that great either. That makes me want to sign up right away!
• bshimmin 11y ago
  Is there a strong overlap between "people who don't know (or care) who DJ Khaled is" and "people who are unlikely ever to see any value in Snapchat"?
  • squeaky-clean 11y ago
    I've heard his name before, but no idea who he is. I also don't have anyone added that I don't know personally. I don't care if some celebrity is watering their plants or getting coffee, but when my friends post that, it's more enjoyable than I ever thought it would be.
    • askafriend 11y ago
      I don't think you quite understand the power of DJ Khaled.
• mdevere 11y ago
  Ok I'm watching stories now and it's awesome. thanks justin
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• goldenchrome 11y ago
  I don't know what to say. I think OP did a good job of explaining what makes Snapchat so great, but their initial confusion and the confusion from the commenters within this thread boggles me. Recently I was in a room with a well-known VC who wouldn't believe a college student who said that they enjoy using Snapchat, as if they couldn't comprehend how anyone would like it. Virtually all the comments are about how Snapchat confuses them and that there must be something seriously wrong with it. And yet the app is immensely popular. If you're one of those people, then Snapchat is not really made for you. You might be able to understand why Snapchat is a beloved app by reading a report about what the millennials are up to these days but I encourage anyone dealing with this confusion to make an effort to talk to people outside of your normal social circles once in a while. This kind of empathy with others will make you much more effective when you're creating for people who are not like you.
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  • justin 11y ago
    My initial confusion came from 1) not immediately understanding how the UI worked, 2) not being that interested in learning because few of my social network were one it. Once I invested a few minutes in understanding it out I loved it. I think the same would be true for many other people who "don't get it".
    • dorian-graph 11y ago
      It's concerning that those who don't get it then act confused about why anyone else would like it. It seems like out of 2 possible responses, the ideal should be b) a) I don't understand it or see the appeal, then why do other people like it? b) I don't like it or see the appeal, but others do. Cool.
      • Alex3917 11y ago
        I completely understand the appeal of snapchat; it's basically LSD in social network form... The intimacy of shared human experience, the infinite nowness, the mindfuck UI, the altered values, the sense of sacred space, etc. But much like acid, I feel like I wouldn't be able to engage with it everyday without weird things happening to my brain. I totally support people who use it, just personally I'm content with mostly experiencing it vicariously through other people.
• anotheryou 11y ago
  I'd really want to try, but when I need to scroll to see the end of the list of permissions it needs, I refuse to install it...
• ethagknight 11y ago
  I love Snapchat Stories. I always have a minute's worth of video in my story. I love it because, unlike Twitter, Facebook/Instagram and the rest, I can overpost to my hearts content, and people can totally ignore it if they want to. Most of my family does the same, and its fun to see. I can post videos of my children doing stupid things that no one cares about or wants to see but my parents and grandparents. Oh, thats another thing: when I tell people I love Snapchat, they assume "heh, for sexting?" Well, no, my whole family, including my 60 y.o. parents and 80 year old grandparent are on Snapchat and love seeing videos of my family's activities or stupid stuff we do. The barrier for whats acceptable to post is much lower, like toddlers running through the house naked and whatnot. And it goes away. (well, probably not technically, so I wouldn't post anything that you wouldn't be generally cool with accidentally getting broadcast somehow). But most the time, I post interesting-but-uncurated little snippets throughout the day that I think are funny or odd, and I usually get a few random comments from friends and family, and its generally fun, frictionless and competition-less way to share without all the 'like' or friend quantifiers. Occasionally a post gets upgraded to twitter for broadcast. I also initially enjoyed the city stories, where random regular people from, say, Doha or Abu Dhabi or Kuala Lumpur post videos of their daily lives. Cool to see how people live on the other side of the world. Eventually got bored with it, but cool concept.
  • angryasian 11y ago
    Out of curiosity, Im not user so this might be ignorant, but why can't people ignore your posts on Twitter, Facebook/Instagram. Are you just referring to notifications ? I do get the point of the psychological barrier and the problem of broadcasting likes, retweets, comments etc. I think some people will say "what if no one responds" then why would I put this out there, and stop them from putting out something that might be interesting.
    • schwap 11y ago
      The difference with snapchat is (as Justin notes) there's no central "stream" to worry about cluttering. If you have friend a that is prolific and friend b that only occasionally updates a's activity doesn't trample over b's.
• dharma1 11y ago
  This post makes me think I should check it out again. A lot of our (http://unikupid.com http://unikupid.com) users in India are on snapchat, thought it's just a teen fad but maybe it's fun to use
• zyxley 11y ago
  Snapchat is the first app that makes me feel like an old man shaking my fist at the young hooligans on the lawn. The abtruse interface leaves me tremendously baffled.
• ikailan 11y ago
  One thing that isn't mentioned is that the "friction" in selecting your friends is actually a positive. Instead of someone just shouting out to the world, my friend actually picked my name to receive some post. Not to mention: Snapchat has this built in status for how often users snap each other back. It's a built-in mechanism to get me to respond, similar to the way Facebook wanted it's "Sling" app to work, but without forcing the issue. I used Snapchat with a very small number of good friends fairly heavily for about a month. Things we shared: - what we ate - walking to work - on the bus/train - waiting in line - nothing at all - drawing on pictures of people - example: a friend is watching ESPN talk about the owner of the 49ers, Jed York, and drew a dunce cap on his head I think we averaged 10 messages a day each. Basically, for us, Snapchat was for sharing photos too stupid or personal for Facebook or Instagram. The stickiness eventually faded. We got tired of seeing the same food, the same office, the same bus every day. Contrary to how we might represent ourselves on Facebook (SUPER AWESOME!!!!), Snapchat showed each other how utterly mundane our lives were. Of the original group of ~5 people, there's maybe one left.
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• tempestn 11y ago
  For anyone who's used both, how does this Stories feature compare to Twitter's new Periscope? They appear to aim for very similar targets.
• zo7 11y ago
  I'm surprised that there's so much "I don't get it" sentiment here. You would think that everyone on HN would be clamoring to figure out how Snapchat is able to get as many users as it has.
  • dorian-graph 11y ago
    The reactions here seem reminiscent of Svbtle—people felt off socially (with Svtle, they weren't invited, and with Snapchat, they might be feel like they're missing out on what the cool kids are doing).
• applecore 11y ago
  > Instagram is the 9th circle of hell where everyone feels inadequate about their photos of bottle service, Michelin star dining and helicopter rides. OT: That's... an interesting take.
• fastball 11y ago
  My reason for liking Snapchat is a little bit different. I'm a user of Facebook, but I really don't like Facebook's newsfeed. I find it to be a time sink that has a lot of advertisements and some amount of cultivation is required if you don't want to be bogged down with every little thing your friends do. So basically I only use Facebook for messaging people whose phone number I don't have, and for event tracking, as a lot of people in my social group use Facebook to make events, which I think is great. But that leaves a small hole in my social media. I enjoy cyber stalking my friends because I like being aware of what people are doing with their lives. Snapchat (but specifically Snapchat stories) fills that need fairly perfectly. Just once or twice a day I can skim through my stories for a few minutes just to see what people have been up to that day. I like it better than Twitter because there is too much promotion and general posting of stuff I'm not interested in (like the Facebook newsfeed) and I like it better than Instagram (for this purpose) because most users of Instagram seem to want to only put their best / most interesting / etc. photos on there, which isn't exactly what I'm looking for.
• taytus 11y ago
  "There’s no public view count, follower count, likes count, or any other social dick-measuring contest. " He adds his account so people can follow him :/
• skeletonjelly 11y ago
  I didn't realise how ubiquitous it is until I went to a music festival, every phone that was held up recording a particular act was using Snapchat.
• dreamdu5t 11y ago
  Snapchat is great if you have a group of friends who care about seeing random photos of your life throughout the day. What exactly am I supposed to "snap" while I'm sitting in an office all day staring at a computer? Take photos of my food? I don't understand how to participate when my life isn't filled with visual things to show people.
  • justin 11y ago
    I just narrate the boring shit I'm doing
• cookiecaper 11y ago
  I think I'm supposed to be too young to get that deeply irritated "stay off my lawn" feeling but Snapchat provides it in leaps and bounds. Lots of resentment here for Snapchat and the other useless "Hey, look ma, I'm worth a billion dollars!" unicorns lead by clueless collegiates that are always photographed wearing mom jeans and smirking into space. I had just barely started to accept Twitter's presence in the world and now this.
• bambax 11y ago
  > There’s no public view count, follower count, likes count, or any other social dick-measuring contest And then at the end: > Add me at: justinkan Why does he need to be seen by strangers if the whole point is to exchange "low quality content" between friends?? That said, the concept of "linear channel" is interesting, even if I'm not sure I understood everything about it.
  • justin 11y ago
    I like getting feedback. Also I broadcasted my life to strangers and it worked out well the first time -- we turned it into a billion dollar company.
    • bambax 11y ago
      After "pivoting", no? Or did you sell footage of your life for that amount?