4 ms·
I know the feeling, even though I haven't been on Facebook in years. My 18 year-old met his current girlfriend because she saw him in a parking lot and asked wh
by HeyLaughingBoy 8y ago
I know the feeling, even though I haven't been on Facebook in years. My 18 year-old met his current girlfriend because she saw him in a parking lot and asked what his Snapchat name was. I don't think he even bothers with FB any more.
The interesting thing to me was that this girl simply expected that he would be on Snapchat. I guess that's where everyone is these days.
- cm2187 8y agoCar parks, quality dating grounds!
- metildaa 8y agoFor many Americans, large parking lots/being carbound are facts of life. Half the land area in non-residential zoned properties is required to be parking in many municipalities, which helps to make these areas unfriendly to commute in for any mode, pushing buildings significantly further apart for little benefit. Cars have been the least worst way to get around these hostile environments for a long time, though I think eBikes are starting to become more popular as they can cut around the horrifyingly bad traffic in many of these places, while not requiring one to join the lycra crowd.
- mcv 8y agoWhy would you need to join the lycra crowd without an eBike? I hope they take off, though. Everything I hear about US traffic sounds hopelessly hostile.
- idontpost 8y ago> Why would you need to join the lycra crowd without an eBike? Because you get very sweaty trying to ride a bike any distance in 90 degree weather.
- detritus 8y agoWhat a strange, cynical comment. Car parks are a mere part of greater reality - what sense of quality does it imbue that is more or less worthy than any other where perchancing on another is concerned?
- itronitron 8y agothat probably depends a lot on the time of day
- 8ytecoder 8y agoSnapchat is out of fashion already. It's Tik-tok/Musically that's the current fad (or trendy) social media app.
- tprnz 8y agoTiktok bought their way to their current position. I bet most of the "best tiktoks" accounts on Facebook/Twitter are owned by themselves. In a matter of months they will die off naturally.
- ndnxhs 8y agoIt does seem very artificial. A very boring/obnoxious app that went from nothing to being pushed at me from everywhere.
- dabockster 8y agoTik Tok is Chinese, though. Is there a US version out?
- justapassenger 8y agoYes. Facebook just launched one :)
- vict00ms 8y agoI'm in my early-40s and when I first met my wife in college, we exchanged AIM handles :)