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Most people between the ages of 10-30 have been conditioned to pull out their phone during the slightest feeling of boredom, awkwardness, loneliness, or of cour
by ben_jones 10y ago
Most people between the ages of 10-30 have been conditioned to pull out their phone during the slightest feeling of boredom, awkwardness, loneliness, or of course notification noise / buzz. It then becomes a question of which App gets opened first which usually is decided by the amount of 'reward' generated by the action.
I can only speak to my demo, but the order is usually:
Tier 1:
* Text messaging
* Snapchat
Tier 1.5:
* Tinder
* Mobile games (only applies to a subset of users 'gamers')
Tier 2:
* Facebook
* Instagram
Tier 3:
* Browser
* Mobile games (most people)
* Other
You'll notice personal communications falls above content sharing. Snapchat is a definitive type of personal communication and is pretty firmly planted (IMO).
- xenihn 10y agoI'd put Imgur and Reddit in tier 1
- wapz 10y agoDo people just browse Imgur or what is there to do? I've never gone to the site other than to upload or through a link (mostly from Reddit).
- nicky0 10y agoYes you just browse it. It has public posts and comments. Most of the popular images become popular on Imgur first, then they make their way to Reddit.
- xenihn 10y agoYes, it has it's own discussion/community separate from Reddit. It mainly serves as a source/aggregate for Reddit image content.
- matwood 10y agoIf I pull out my phone I go right to HN, or the current book I'm reading. I'm definitely old now...
- nkkollaw 10y agoMe too.
- plainOldText 10y agoSame here. In a sense HN is a sort of restricted social network for me, or even a tribe if you wish. Except we don't gather around the fire anymore, we gather around a website and exchange stories not of hunting animals, but hunting bugs.
- wapz 10y agoI'm still fairly new to HN but I love the quality of posts and expertise in almost every technical thread.
- ryanSrich 10y agoI think 27 is old for HN, so I'm right there with ya. The tinder and snapchat generation blew right by me. I still use twitter and instagram, but I don't immediately reach for them. I typically go to HN, an article, or another piece of reading material when I'm bored.
- oldrny 10y agoOh no; 27 can't be old. I can't be old D: 27 isn't old!
- josephagoss 10y agoHaha I'm 28, from the doom and gloom I read on HN about age discrimination I should be entering retirement! :(
- supercoder 10y agoGiven majority of people exit their companies and retire by 30 - 35 these days, 27 is becoming quite old in the HN workforce.
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- angryasian 10y agoBased on Snap's own numbers it would indicate Instagram is a tier 1.
- nv-vn 10y agoSeems like Snapchat is growing faster though
- Emc2fma 10y agoNot really. https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/02/slowchat/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/02/slowchat/
- nbm 10y agoOne of the benefits of publicly traded and soon-to-be-traded companies is that they release things like DAU in their S-1s and quarterly reports, so we don't have to rely on anecdote. Disclaimer: I work at Facebook (but don't follow this sort of thing beyond reading the quarterly reports every once in a while)
- paxtonab 10y agoHis demo is likely younger, and thus uses Snapchat more frequently than instagram