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If you follow any Young People™ you'll notice that they're all using Stories now, which still have ads, but are at least chronological. Posts (the original prod
by rib3ye 5y ago
If you follow any Young People™ you'll notice that they're all using Stories now, which still have ads, but are at least chronological. Posts (the original product) are for "Old People" (28+).
- rtpg 5y agoHell, im a pretty early adopter of instagram along with loads of friends and like 95% of content has become stories. Turns out Snapchat was what most of us wanted but without a purposefully obtuse interface
- rib3ye 5y agoThe fact that they succeeded in spite of a purposefully obtuse interface is a pretty clear validation for the concept.
- rtpg 5y agoI think the general belief was that the concept was a thing for "kids"/"young people", but now I'm very convinced that that was because of Snap's branding + general incomprehensibility.
- shp0ngle 5y agoDid they really succeed though?
- rib3ye 5y agoThey succeeded enough to scare zucc into war mode.
- dorkwood 5y agoI liked Snapchat, but I don't like stories. To me, the beauty of Snapchat was that I could share a funny moment with a couple of friends who I thought would find the same thing amusing. I can't do that with stories. It's like being forced to tell a in-joke to all of my friends at the same time. I'd rather just not tell the joke at all.
- airstrike 5y agoYou can have a "Close friends" list or multiple accounts. Neither is particularly UX-ergonomic, but that's what people do to address that need
- astrange 5y agoSnapchat's main problem was the default screen was full of tabloid magazines from a grocery store checkout aisle.
- klondike_ 5y agoMost people under the age of 30 are using Snapchat
- worstestes 5y agoNot the case at all.
- fr2null 5y agoSingle European datapoint, I'm currently in university. In my country we have different levels of tertiary (?) education, as far as I can tell, lower levels of education have way more Snapchat use than Instagram. For most students of higher levels Snapchat is only used to share your night out with friend groups, but pretty much nothing else, while Instagram is used way more.
- jonathantf2 5y agoTrue here - the only people I use anything else with is work colleagues and parents. Everyone else uses Snap.
- Gwypaas 5y agoGive it a year or two and I bet there will be unskippable ads between the stories.
- fr2null 5y agoAs a Young People™, this is not entirely true. Stories are only partly chronological. The stories are grouped per user and in these groups they are chronological. However these groups are not chronological. Secondly, posts are not for old people. Posts serve a different purpose than stories. The barrier to post is a lot higher, and they are definitely not used (anymore) to share that you are going to a restaurant/movie/etc, because stories took over that niche. However something like a (single!) post with (multiple) photos of your last holiday (with at least the first one including you) and some fun caption is still totally done.
- YetAnotherNick 5y agoStories are not chronological.
- randomsearch 5y agoWorth noting that “very young people” are using TikTok and Instagram is usually an afterthought for them. If you’re a big insta user you’re already “two generations” out of date (snap and TikTok).