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As a millenial myself, I've seen Snapchat usage stay roughly the same, but I've seen an explosion in Instagram usage. So IMO it's really just that Snapchat is s

As a millenial myself, I've seen Snapchat usage stay roughly the same, but I've seen an explosion in Instagram usage. So IMO it's really just that Snapchat is stagnating relative to Instagram, and stagnation is death for a social network.

whymauri 8y ago
I'm convinced the death of Snapchat will be its failure to expand to new international markets like South America. Insta, FaceBook, WhatsApp, etc (all FB owned) have exploded and maintained themselves overseas. Meanwhile, a year ago reports came up that Evan Spiegel of Snapchat said that his app is not for poor countries like India. That hubris is dangerous. I can't wait for the company to go under.
- woolvalley 8y ago
  India is fairly unique in how bad the cell phone internet is. Snapchat is a video & image heavy app even compared to instagram or facebook, which is why the app design doesn't work well. Get rid of the media richness and your back to facebook.
  - 0max 8y ago
    When I visited my family in the Philippines, I was asking my younger relatives what social networks/apps they used. When I asked about Snapchat, they said nobody really used it. It made sense in the way how data plans are structured over there, along with how Facebook's Internet.org has really gained a lot of usage in the country in their partnership with the carriers.
uxGroiupThink 8y ago
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whymauri 8y ago

I'm convinced the death of Snapchat will be its failure to expand to new international markets like South America. Insta, FaceBook, WhatsApp, etc (all FB owned) have exploded and maintained themselves overseas. Meanwhile, a year ago reports came up that Evan Spiegel of Snapchat said that his app is not for poor countries like India. That hubris is dangerous. I can't wait for the company to go under.

woolvalley 8y ago
India is fairly unique in how bad the cell phone internet is. Snapchat is a video & image heavy app even compared to instagram or facebook, which is why the app design doesn't work well. Get rid of the media richness and your back to facebook.
- 0max 8y ago
  When I visited my family in the Philippines, I was asking my younger relatives what social networks/apps they used. When I asked about Snapchat, they said nobody really used it. It made sense in the way how data plans are structured over there, along with how Facebook's Internet.org has really gained a lot of usage in the country in their partnership with the carriers.

uxGroiupThink 8y ago

Product Owners Attempting to Monetize with Garbage: Hey, I bet we can use dark patterns to manipulate our users into counter-intuitive behaviors, for cash and prizes! API Developers: Here's ur data. UX designers: This will force people to help us make money, because eye tracking, and lowest common denominator and, of course, dopamine. Product Owners: Brilliant! Just imagine the ad impressions we'll collect! Focus Group Testers: Do u think u would like this? Focus Group Users: Uh, yeah this looks great... Where's my ten bucks? Product Owners: Release it! We'll all be rich! *pops champaign* Actual Users: Wow, I... ...what? wowwwww... *deletes app*