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Wholeheartedly agree - I spent 2 weeks at a friend's place just a week ago, and my friend I was in became obsessed with recording videos purely for Snapchat eve

by Bahamut 11y ago

Wholeheartedly agree - I spent 2 weeks at a friend's place just a week ago, and my friend I was in became obsessed with recording videos purely for Snapchat every time. Instead of focusing on the moment with friends, she was more concerned with posting something on Snapchat for our circle to see. I don't want everything I do blasted on social media - I want to enjoy the moments I spend with friends. Snapchat is the opposite of living in the moment, and that is my beef with it.

JonFish85 11y ago
> Snapchat is the opposite of living in the moment, I used it only for a year or so, but my impression is/was that Snapchat is a way of trying to show other people how in-the-moment you are, even though you have to take the little bit of time away from that moment to broadcast it.
an_account 11y ago
Like every tool, snapchat too can be used poorly.
hammock 11y ago
This sounds like every social media ever
dorian-graph 11y ago
> Instead of focusing on the moment with friends, she was more concerned with posting something on Snapchat for our circle to see. Isn't this common with every social media app, relatively? It's the same with cameras, writing down notes, and many other things. You need to use it wisely and have a good focus on the right time and place, and amount of time too. I use Snapchat a fair bit friends, but almost always not when we're together. It's a low-friction and cheap way of just keeping in contact. Like when you're walking down a street, see something cool and point it out to a friend. Snapchat lets you do that when you're not actually together. When I'm with friends and want to show something to other friends, I'll make a quick photo or video, and then let it be. Again, you'll have some friends who are on their phones too much, but that's not a Snapchat app problem, or a physical camera problem, it's a user problem.
derefr 11y ago
Draw that dividing line on the other side of the phone and Snapchat "snaps" into clarity for me: Snapchat is for "enjoying the moments you spend with friends" when those friends are somewhere else. If you're alone at a bar, but you take some snaps and send them to your friends and they reply while you're still there, it's sorta-kinda-almost like you're hanging out there with them. Or, for a more powerful example: sending snaps of random things over the course of your day to someone you're in a long-distance relationship with. It's the minute-at-a-time version of exactly what Justin.TV could have done: let you "hang out" with your SO while in another country by being pushed a feed from the camera on their shoulder. (While presumably also being able to text or talk on the phone with them as you like, as well.)

by Bahamut 11y ago

JonFish85 11y ago

> Snapchat is the opposite of living in the moment, I used it only for a year or so, but my impression is/was that Snapchat is a way of trying to show other people how in-the-moment you are, even though you have to take the little bit of time away from that moment to broadcast it.

an_account 11y ago

Like every tool, snapchat too can be used poorly.

hammock 11y ago

This sounds like every social media ever

dorian-graph 11y ago

> Instead of focusing on the moment with friends, she was more concerned with posting something on Snapchat for our circle to see. Isn't this common with every social media app, relatively? It's the same with cameras, writing down notes, and many other things. You need to use it wisely and have a good focus on the right time and place, and amount of time too. I use Snapchat a fair bit friends, but almost always not when we're together. It's a low-friction and cheap way of just keeping in contact. Like when you're walking down a street, see something cool and point it out to a friend. Snapchat lets you do that when you're not actually together. When I'm with friends and want to show something to other friends, I'll make a quick photo or video, and then let it be. Again, you'll have some friends who are on their phones too much, but that's not a Snapchat app problem, or a physical camera problem, it's a user problem.

derefr 11y ago

Draw that dividing line on the other side of the phone and Snapchat "snaps" into clarity for me: Snapchat is for "enjoying the moments you spend with friends" when those friends are somewhere else. If you're alone at a bar, but you take some snaps and send them to your friends and they reply while you're still there, it's sorta-kinda-almost like you're hanging out there with them. Or, for a more powerful example: sending snaps of random things over the course of your day to someone you're in a long-distance relationship with. It's the minute-at-a-time version of exactly what Justin.TV could have done: let you "hang out" with your SO while in another country by being pushed a feed from the camera on their shoulder. (While presumably also being able to text or talk on the phone with them as you like, as well.)