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>You can choose who you share your stories with on Facebook. Sure, I get that from a pure functional perspective. However, I'm talking about psychology of app
by jasode 10y ago
>You can choose who you share your stories with on Facebook.
Sure, I get that from a pure functional perspective. However, I'm talking about psychology of app usage.
Consider an example of an iPhone home screen.[1] The user sees the Snapchat icon and a Facebook icon next to each other. I believe that many people (millions) will mentally compartmentalize the yellow ghost as "my real friends" and the blue "f" as "every random acquaintance that ever sent me a friend request and I never said no because of etiquette."
Usage of each icon evolved to become its own "world" so to speak. Sure, one could theoretically create sub-worlds inside of Facebook but a customized "real friends of Facebook inside of Facebook" seems to be more work than just pushing the button with the yellow ghost. Staying inside the Snapchat world also minimizes accidentally sending the wrong Facebook-story to the wrong Facebook-friend.
[1] http://i.imgur.com/CV91LsE.png http://i.imgur.com/CV91LsE.png
- quineoa 10y agoCompletely agree with this, and so do all the kids at school apparently. Since release, the only content I see on Messenger Stories is shitty memes from people I already hid from my feed (the same reason I don't use Facebook is shitty memes). Instagram stories has some semi interesting content, but all the good FOMO inducing content is usually on Snap and there might b research on this as well (something like the effect of FOMO on millennial social media addiction).
- mcintyre1994 10y agoHaha, the only Facebook Messenger story I saw was someone's Snapchat code.
- alttab 10y agoFOMO seems to be a huge aspect of the draw. You can see it in teen social media usage, online gaming, etc.