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Are teenagers still using Snapchat? The teenagers that made the bulk of its users when it was new are in their late 20s now.
by skyyler 2y ago
Are teenagers still using Snapchat?
The teenagers that made the bulk of its users when it was new are in their late 20s now.
- decimalenough 2y agoYup, they are, their DAUs are steadily marching up.
- nukem222 2y agoI'm assuming they've filled the app with ads by now?
- parliament32 2y agoSurprisingly, there aren't any, unless you go doom-scroll the celebrity stories. The only thing I get is an occasional IAP upsell to their premium features.
- femiagbabiaka 2y agoIt’s way more ubiquitous now than it was when I was using it in college in the 2010s. An underrated growth story IMO.
- _--__--__ 2y agoMy extended family (mostly people in that late 20s through early 40s range) use a snapchat group to share the kind of videos of our kids that most would appreciate seeing but which really don't belong on normal social media
- lucyjojo 2y agofor my family (20s to 80s) we use FamilyAlbum from Mixi. It's quite nice.
- danesparza 2y agoSick burn.
- skyyler 2y agoWasn't a burn, I was actually asking.
- matthewdgreen 2y agoYes they’re using Snapchat. But based on the data points from my kids and their friends, they hate hate hate the AI and think it’s creepy.
- eitally 2y agoSnap is the default chat app in high schools in the US. The second is Instagram. The third is a fallback to SMS / iMessage. I personally have never seen a teen using a third party chat app (like Whatsapp/Telegram/Signal/etc). (I have 14 & 16 year olds, neither of whom have social media. It really is unpleasant for them sometimes, trying to keep up with JIT event logistics carried out on Snap.)
- mmasu 2y agoI have a question for you - is it their choice not to have social media, or yours? Neither is bad - I’m father to a young girl (not school age yet) and am starting to think about how I should approach this as a parent
- walledstance 2y agoI’m interested in this answer as well, since I have a little who isn’t school aged either. I’m trying to compile perspectives to make this same decision.
- HarHarVeryFunny 2y agoI have a 16yr old (girl), and our decision was essentially to "go with the flow" - give her a phone at same age as bulk of her peers were getting one, and not to put blocks on anything. So far so good. The rationale is that the current social media environment is the world they are growing up with, so better get used to it. Kids are generally quite tech savvy and share information with each other, and understand the need for online privacy - when to share only with friends, etc. It'd be very limiting not to allow your child to have access to things like Snapchat when all their peers have it and are using it to communicate on a daily basis.
- mmasu 2y agothanks for your perspective on this!
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