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Snapchat obliterated Facebook's news feed with the younger generations under 25. Status updates are now Snapchat stories, and news feed items on Facebook are mo
by Olscore 10y ago
Snapchat obliterated Facebook's news feed with the younger generations under 25. Status updates are now Snapchat stories, and news feed items on Facebook are more like life milestones. So I think it changes the way younger demographics use social media. It definitely encourages a lot more trivial sharing of activities throughout the day with others.
- foldr 10y agoAll inside baseball. Nothing would happen if Snapchat disappeared overnight. People would send each other selfies by some other medium.
- cryptoz 10y agoIt's not that Snapchat is critical infrastructure. It's that they've captured the attention of a generation and are going to potentially build things in the future that could define how people interact with technology. I'm not saying that they will, it's too early to tell because they're just getting started. We'll see. But it's much too soon to dismiss it as just a chat app as well.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoSo they have a platform that's going to shape the next generations social interactions for the worse [1], and can only barely monetize (and if they can monetize profitably, its for an audience with the least amount of purchasing power in several generations)? Pyrrhic victory. [1] http://nypost.com/2016/07/04/im-a-millennial-and-my-generation-sucks/ http://nypost.com/2016/07/04/im-a-millennial-and-my-generati...
- argonaut 10y agoAre you kidding? Advertisers trip over themselves for the chance to advertise to consumerism-drenched, trend-driven teenagers and soon-to-be twenty-somethings.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoI'm not kidding at all. Advertisers spend money all the time that is literally no different than burning money in a dumpster fire.