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I had my first intern last summer - she's going to college this fall. She used Snapchat throughout the day to communicate with friends. I asked why-- it's non-p

I had my first intern last summer - she's going to college this fall. She used Snapchat throughout the day to communicate with friends. I asked why-- it's non-public, informal, and low-friction in social terms (easier to ask for snap than a phone number). I got the sense that she was continuously lightly dropping in to various group conversations, while simultaneously talking to close friends, often by simply recording reactions on camera. I've never used Snap so forgive any ignorance on my part.

qchris 5y ago
This is pretty close to my own experience. I actively use Snapchat more than any other social platform because in many ways, it's not really a social "platform", in the same way that Instagram or Facebook or Tiktok are platforms. There are some people that use it that way, but largely, Snapchat is a convenient way of ephemeral, low-friction way to include a few people into your life. A picture here, a link to a cool article there, to a few friends at a time in a non-public way (very few people use it to cultivate an online persona in the way the above platforms encourage) that disappears within a day or so unless explicitly saved.