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As a member of 18~23yo age group ("young person"), I would say snaps the only social media I enjoy using besides HN/reddit. Most young people I know use Facebo
by verall 9y ago
As a member of 18~23yo age group ("young person"), I would say snaps the only social media I enjoy using besides HN/reddit.
Most young people I know use Facebook for groups (local like a school or city), events , and chat. IMO Facebook is shooting all of these feet off with the algorithmic newsfeed and spinning off messenger.
Snap however is used constantly to keep up with peers. Haven't met a single person that uses instagram's stories, even though its usage numbers tell another story.
It really might just be my age/location/privlege bubble, but it consistently baffles me that Facebook keeps growing at such a faster speed than snap.
I asked my younger siblings and none of them nor their friends have facebooks, besides the one in college. They all have snap and insta, and spend ~2X time on snap than insta. Most text communication is snap or SMS.
- SubNoize 9y agoHow do they communicate when placed Infront of a computer? I see the appeal of snap with the younger crowd but the fact that it lives in a phone seems like a major con, sure it's easily fixed by allowing browser access. As someone who grew up on MSN & ICQ I couldn't imagine having to stop what I'm doing to pick up my phone every time I want to message someone.
- carlivar 9y agoPhone is a computer. Just not the interface or size we old fogeys prefer.
- stochastic_monk 9y agoI know a lot of kids in their 20s who like Discord. Slack is much better, but Discord sunk its teeth into the gaming community and it spread.
- ubercow13 9y agoIn what way is Slack better?
- stochastic_monk 9y agoIt just always works for me, and I've run into all sorts of annoying cases where Discord doesn't do what it's supposed to, especially in the browser. Slack's extra features and integrations are nice, too, but I just don't like Discord because it... doesn't even work as advertised.
- verall 9y agoIMO discord is way better. Pretty interface, easy to use, voice is pretty low latency (although I miss my mumble server), and it uses ~80mb of ram to sit in like 5 groups, which while not fantastic blows "rather open it in chrome" slack out of the water. New signal desktop instantly uses 200mb and has to "loading messages" for 3s every single startup :(
- stochastic_monk 9y agoIt's not buggy for you? The tab on the left is always glitching out on me, and things just simply don't work like they should, whether I'm using Firefox or Chrome. It incorrectly says "<so and so> is typing..." when the person is typing in a different subchat. On the whole, for a product proudly marketing itself as a Slack replacement, it does a terrible job actually providing the same functionality.
- verall 9y agoI would say "computer people" ie spend a significant portion of their time on a computer with a physical qwerty keyboard tend to use FB messenger to chat or discord if they play games. My preference is probably steam chat. The new signal desktop is a dumpster fire. Most people in my age group simply don't spend very much time in front of a computer. Their phone is their portal to the internet and has generally everything they're looking for.
- maruhan2 9y agoAge 27 here. I see more people moving away from snap and using instagram stories.
- puranjay 9y agoSnap never picked up in emerging markets like India. Instagram still dominates here. And most of the people I know regularly use Instagram stories
- gberger 9y agoHell, Snap never even picked up in Europe, as a result of its strong bias against Android and heavy marketing focus on US colleges, cities and events.
- taoistextremist 9y ago>as a result of its strong bias against Android I'm not familiar with this, and the most prevalent Snapchat users among my friends are Android users.
- curiouscats 9y agoOne of the items frequently mentioned themes around this quarters results is that Snap is finally making some progress overseas (emerging and everywhere else). Tencent bought 12% of Snap in Nov of 2017. Likely that has, and will continue to push emerging market efforts by Snap.
- simonklitj 9y agoThat's very interesting, because in my age/location bubble (21/Denmark) it's the exact opposite. For every 30 Instagram stories, people post about 1 Snapchat story. Talked to a friend yesterday who said that he forgot Snapchat even existed, and was installed on his phone, because he hadn't received a snap in a year. Also, my younger siblings both use Snapchat and Messenger consistently, and are avid users of Facebook (because of meme tagging primarily).
- verall 9y agoSnap seems to be pretty usa centered, which explains a lot. On memes, I think for me and most of my friends something like 90% of facebook use is meme pages. I think people that use facebook as a meme platform will move to different platforms when something offers pseudonymity with consistent user blocking (ie pseudonym that must be linked to a phone#) and solid group/forum posting + chat features. I think people are vaguely uncomfortable with putting their real name into "Red Commie Memes For Anti-State Teens" type groups and will want to move to pseudonymous or temporal (snap) platforms when they reach feature parity. Right now facebook memes are growing fast because it is easy for "normie" facebook users to click a couple memes and get sucked into the vortex.
- skinnymuch 9y agoIt’s been years. Why has nothing else come up yet. It feels like people have been talking about FB massively shrinking or being overthrown since 2010.
- freddie_mercury 9y agoI don't know a single person in Vietnam who uses Snapchat. Every person I've ever met uses Instagram. Everyone uses Facebook. Facebook Messenger is the most popular chat tool by a fair margin. No one ever sends a message by Snap or SMS. We have a population of 100 million. The world is bigger than just the US. Indonesia, with a population of 260 million, also overwhelmingly prefers Facebook over Snapchat.
- ddorian43 9y ago.. yeah but they aren't worth much $ compared to US. Or to California.
- Grue3 9y agoGood luck growing to 1 billion users in California.
- ddorian43 9y agoGood luck milking 1B poor people.
- emptyfile 9y agoWhat about Europe? Ever since Instagram added stories I don't think I even heard the word Snapchat mentioned.
- freddie_mercury 9y agoThe original thread was typical "I don't know anybody who X". Now you're shifting the goalposts.
- ddorian43 9y agoMy response was: who gives a shit when people in Cambodia don't use your app ? Meaning they're less valuable. But now that I think a little more, maybe we're starting to see a shift of say, tobacco + fast-food etc moving into poorer countries to extract $$ from them. So this mobile-game-social-addiction is the next/current step.
- hshacker321 9y agoSenior in HS/USA. No one at my HS uses Facebook. Some use instagram, but everyone is on Snapchat.
- trosi 9y agoAs with iMessage vs WhatsApp, I think this is more of a divide based on location rather than age. In the US Snapchat might be prevalent because iOS is prevalent. My guess is in the rest of the world Instagram dominates and is gaining further ground.
- skinnymuch 9y agoIsn’t Whatsapp huge everywhere except for primarily the US and obviously China? Also Japan and South Korea as they have Line and Kakao. But the US is mostly an anomaly with not using Whatsapp. Instagram is also a behemoth compared to Snapchat. Same with Whatsapp and FBM.