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>You can post pretty shamelessly the little things you're up to all day to your story, knowing it will be gone in 24 hours, keeping your feed really clean. Thi

>You can post pretty shamelessly the little things you're up to all day to your story, knowing it will be gone in 24 hours, keeping your feed really clean. This is the part I still don't get. Why would I want to constantly spam my friends with trivial photos of my daily life? Disappearing spam is still spam. I'm 28, nobody I know uses snapchat/instagram/whatever so I haven't actually used it. If it's something I actually want to share, I don't care if it's gone in 24 hours and it's dead simple to just message them directly.

jaywunder 10y ago
> Why would I want to constantly spam my friends with trivial photos of my daily life? Disappearing spam is still spam. I think the difference here is that because the photos disappear after 24 hours, the expectation for quality is lowered. Also the fact that the photos are trivial is part of the attraction. There aren't as many expectations on Snapchat as on Twitter. Sometimes it's just nice to see your friends' face, and Snapchat is good for that.
prawn 10y ago
I don't use SnapChat, but once you have children, your parents and siblings are interested in seeing the funny little day to day things your kids do. 5 seconds here and there of eating breakfast, getting dressed for the day, running around, etc. Twitter and Instagram don't really cover that use case well at all. I use private photos/videos on Instagram to share those things with my family, but it's very clunky and would feel like spamming to send more than 2-3 curated photos per day. I gather that with SnapChat there is far less curation.
- rpgmaker 10y ago
  > I don't use SnapChat, but once you have children, your parents and siblings are interested in seeing the funny little day to day things your kids do. No they aren't interested. They are just too nice to tell you to stop spamming them.
  - pg_is_a_butt 10y ago
    uh... why would they add you on snapchat, go into the app, click on stories and play your videos, all without being notified, if they didn't want to view them? No... you aren't right. you are just too stupid to know you're wrong, lady.
  - prawn 10y ago
    Not sure why you've responded in such a presumptive and negative way. I find it rude. Maybe your family isn't close and it's not something you can identify with? My immediate family are always interested. I don't bombard extended family or friends though many still voluntarily follow feeds dedicated to the children.
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- mnsc 10y ago
  We use groupchat in WhatsApp. Two separate groups, one for each side of the family. Works ok but I can kinda begin to see the benefit of snapchat's ephemeral attitude even though I haven't tried it myself. However I don't se my wife's mother wanting to switch. She's retired and finds a great deal of joy of revisiting old movies of the kids. She would want to save the snaps anyways but I guess you can do that?
ChazDazzle 10y ago
Thirty something here. The stories aren't spam since they don't trigger notifications and you have to intentionally click on them to watch. When i'm not feeling social I ignore snapchat, when i am, i know i can check in and see what my friends are doing.
- brianwawok 10y ago
  Why don't you ask them if you want to know what they are doing? I still don't get it.
  - andresgottlieb 10y ago
    One word: friction.
  - ChazDazzle 10y ago
    pictures and videos are more expressive than words
    - adrianratnapala 10y ago
      I didn't understand that statement, could you perhaps draw an explanatory diagram for me?
  - cik2e 10y ago
    Thank you, Gilfoyle. I'm with you though.
  - Sacho 10y ago
    I am amazed this sentiment keeps popping up over and over in this thread. Asking them is exactly the kind of synchronous, flow-breaking communication that programmers should be keenly aware of. People are naturally discovering that polling is worse than event driven notifications, and it's great to watch. There are plenty of arguments to make in favor of synchronous, face-to-face etc communication, about the loss of privacy when you broadcast everything you do, about the lack of personal engagement in this kind of communication, and so on. I can see making a judgement call whether to participate in this kind of communication, because there are plenty of drawbacks and negatives. However, it's obvious to me why people are willingly switching some(most?) of their communication to it. Just as we learned to use asynchronous I/O in place of synchronous, we started using multicast messages and event-driven notifications instead of polling over all your friend-handles "hey what did you do today". It seems like a natural progression to me.
stana 10y ago
Sometimes you just want to share a photo from your daily routine with your family to just let them know you are ok. So not so trivial. In this context why should I have to think about how relevant this stuff is hanging around 5 years from now.
- stormbeta 10y ago
  Why would you think about whether it was relevant in 5 years? I've literally never cared or thought about that when sending those kinds of messages. It's just a basic picture, not sexting or something else potentially sensitive. I don't understand why I should force everyone I know to install yet another random social media app when a regular message works just fine.
  - Kiro 10y ago
    Ok, we understand that you don't get it but what's with the tone where you're basically disputing Snapchat's success? This is a popular way of communicating these days. Deal with it. Snapchat is the only social media I've ever shared anything on. For me it's revolutionary.
atom-morgan 10y ago
Where do you live?
- stormbeta 10y ago
  Colorado.
  - atom-morgan 10y ago
    Crazy. I'm two years younger than you and everybody I know uses Snapchat.
wepple 10y ago
for me living ~30 hours flight from my nearest family, getting short snapchats of whatever things they're up-to, however trivial, makes them seem so much closer. And given that they're less likely to be 'staged' instagram/fb photos, it seems more real to me.
- lovemenot 10y ago
  >> for me living ~30 hours flight from my nearest family, Where in the world do you and your family live? I imagine you must be in Antarctica?
  - TeMPOraL 10y ago
    GP is probably including the time it takes to get to the airport, get through the baggage drop, security and boarding procedures, as well as get from the airport to their destination. It can easily add up if both they and their family live in places far from their respective airports, and we're talking intercontinental flight.
    - stuartleigh 10y ago
      Probably, it takes me almost 30 hours to get from the UK to Australia if you could airport transfers and stopovers.
      - wepple 10y ago
        Yep, and add +4 to get to NZ and +2 being in "not London" in the UK for me.
rpgmaker 10y ago
> This is the part I still don't get. Why would I want to constantly spam my friends with trivial photos of my daily life? That is the decease of our age. People really can't see the narcissism needed to keep all of these social networks going.
rpgmaker 10y ago
> This is the part I still don't get. Why would I want to constantly spam my friends with trivial photos of my daily life? That is the decease of our age. People really can't see the narcissism needed to keep all of these social networks going.

jaywunder 10y ago

> Why would I want to constantly spam my friends with trivial photos of my daily life? Disappearing spam is still spam. I think the difference here is that because the photos disappear after 24 hours, the expectation for quality is lowered. Also the fact that the photos are trivial is part of the attraction. There aren't as many expectations on Snapchat as on Twitter. Sometimes it's just nice to see your friends' face, and Snapchat is good for that.

prawn 10y ago

I don't use SnapChat, but once you have children, your parents and siblings are interested in seeing the funny little day to day things your kids do. 5 seconds here and there of eating breakfast, getting dressed for the day, running around, etc. Twitter and Instagram don't really cover that use case well at all. I use private photos/videos on Instagram to share those things with my family, but it's very clunky and would feel like spamming to send more than 2-3 curated photos per day. I gather that with SnapChat there is far less curation.

rpgmaker 10y ago
> I don't use SnapChat, but once you have children, your parents and siblings are interested in seeing the funny little day to day things your kids do. No they aren't interested. They are just too nice to tell you to stop spamming them.
- pg_is_a_butt 10y ago
  uh... why would they add you on snapchat, go into the app, click on stories and play your videos, all without being notified, if they didn't want to view them? No... you aren't right. you are just too stupid to know you're wrong, lady.
- prawn 10y ago
  Not sure why you've responded in such a presumptive and negative way. I find it rude. Maybe your family isn't close and it's not something you can identify with? My immediate family are always interested. I don't bombard extended family or friends though many still voluntarily follow feeds dedicated to the children.
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mnsc 10y ago
We use groupchat in WhatsApp. Two separate groups, one for each side of the family. Works ok but I can kinda begin to see the benefit of snapchat's ephemeral attitude even though I haven't tried it myself. However I don't se my wife's mother wanting to switch. She's retired and finds a great deal of joy of revisiting old movies of the kids. She would want to save the snaps anyways but I guess you can do that?

ChazDazzle 10y ago

Thirty something here. The stories aren't spam since they don't trigger notifications and you have to intentionally click on them to watch. When i'm not feeling social I ignore snapchat, when i am, i know i can check in and see what my friends are doing.

brianwawok 10y ago
Why don't you ask them if you want to know what they are doing? I still don't get it.
- andresgottlieb 10y ago
  One word: friction.
- ChazDazzle 10y ago
  pictures and videos are more expressive than words
  - adrianratnapala 10y ago
    I didn't understand that statement, could you perhaps draw an explanatory diagram for me?
- cik2e 10y ago
  Thank you, Gilfoyle. I'm with you though.
- Sacho 10y ago
  I am amazed this sentiment keeps popping up over and over in this thread. Asking them is exactly the kind of synchronous, flow-breaking communication that programmers should be keenly aware of. People are naturally discovering that polling is worse than event driven notifications, and it's great to watch. There are plenty of arguments to make in favor of synchronous, face-to-face etc communication, about the loss of privacy when you broadcast everything you do, about the lack of personal engagement in this kind of communication, and so on. I can see making a judgement call whether to participate in this kind of communication, because there are plenty of drawbacks and negatives. However, it's obvious to me why people are willingly switching some(most?) of their communication to it. Just as we learned to use asynchronous I/O in place of synchronous, we started using multicast messages and event-driven notifications instead of polling over all your friend-handles "hey what did you do today". It seems like a natural progression to me.

stana 10y ago

Sometimes you just want to share a photo from your daily routine with your family to just let them know you are ok. So not so trivial. In this context why should I have to think about how relevant this stuff is hanging around 5 years from now.

stormbeta 10y ago
Why would you think about whether it was relevant in 5 years? I've literally never cared or thought about that when sending those kinds of messages. It's just a basic picture, not sexting or something else potentially sensitive. I don't understand why I should force everyone I know to install yet another random social media app when a regular message works just fine.
- Kiro 10y ago
  Ok, we understand that you don't get it but what's with the tone where you're basically disputing Snapchat's success? This is a popular way of communicating these days. Deal with it. Snapchat is the only social media I've ever shared anything on. For me it's revolutionary.

atom-morgan 10y ago

Where do you live?

stormbeta 10y ago
Colorado.
- atom-morgan 10y ago
  Crazy. I'm two years younger than you and everybody I know uses Snapchat.

wepple 10y ago

for me living ~30 hours flight from my nearest family, getting short snapchats of whatever things they're up-to, however trivial, makes them seem so much closer. And given that they're less likely to be 'staged' instagram/fb photos, it seems more real to me.

lovemenot 10y ago
>> for me living ~30 hours flight from my nearest family, Where in the world do you and your family live? I imagine you must be in Antarctica?
- TeMPOraL 10y ago
  GP is probably including the time it takes to get to the airport, get through the baggage drop, security and boarding procedures, as well as get from the airport to their destination. It can easily add up if both they and their family live in places far from their respective airports, and we're talking intercontinental flight.
  - stuartleigh 10y ago
    Probably, it takes me almost 30 hours to get from the UK to Australia if you could airport transfers and stopovers.
    - wepple 10y ago
      Yep, and add +4 to get to NZ and +2 being in "not London" in the UK for me.

rpgmaker 10y ago

> This is the part I still don't get. Why would I want to constantly spam my friends with trivial photos of my daily life? That is the decease of our age. People really can't see the narcissism needed to keep all of these social networks going.

rpgmaker 10y ago