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Or its just primarily used for sexting.
by angryasian 13y ago
Or its just primarily used for sexting.
- hsod 13y agoI don't have any data, but from everything I've observed the "sexting" aspect of Snapchat is wildly overblown. Most people just use it for goofy little communication between friends. I guess people keep bring it up because they think it's funny or think it makes them seem cynical, but it would be a mistake to think Snapchat is primarily used for sexting.
- angryasian 13y agoI would disagree from the reddit threads revolving around snapchat and nude pictures and 4chan threads. I would think its a mistake to think its not used primarily for sexting. I don't have any data either but I think comments like op above are really trying to legitimize a sexting app. Lets take the recent Tumblr acquisition. Most tumblr blogs involved porn although they were able to legitimize is it as a better blogging service.
- argonaut 13y agoBecause reddit and 4chan are representative of Snapchat users. Right? Right..? Seriously, of all the users of Snapchat that I know, only one of them is a reddit user as well.
- angryasian 13y agono but they are representative of their primary demographic. Your personal experience means a lot less than the two biggest sites used by snapchat's target demographic.
- argonaut 13y agoAnd your unsubstantiated statements mean more..?
- angryasian 13y agohow is it unsubstantiated ? reddit has subteddits dedicated to sharing snapchats you can see subscriber numbers 4 Chan is a little harder to measure but the fact the threats are brought up several times a day days a lot
- argonaut 13y agoSome reddit users are snapchat users != most (or even a substantial minority!) of snapchat users are reddit users. Statistics 101.
- Grue3 13y ago>Most tumblr blogs involved porn This is blatantly false. It was estimated that about 10% did. Porn was never the biggest draw of Tumblr.
- carbocation 13y agoAlthough it would be unethical for the Snapchat folks to do a statistical sample to find out, I'd estimate that sexting is no more than 1% of Snapchat, probably more like 0.1% or 0.01%.
- recuter 13y agoI beg to differ: http://youtu.be/FarGT40V8tc http://youtu.be/FarGT40V8tc
- haukilup 13y agoThis seems like the type of video I'd expect in a response on Reddit. That is, it's a response that's trying to be funny (or link something funny) rather than continue the conversation at hand. I was really hoping it would be a link providing evidence to one side (Snapchat is primarily sexting) or the other side (only a small % of snapchat usage is sexting).
- recuter 13y agoThe joke can't exist in a cultural vacuum. It has a lot of views and resonates with people because sexting on Snapchat is A Thing. You can't really have much more than anecdotal evidence at this point, so I offered this.
- lotso 13y agoHaving cybersex on Skype is a thing, but you people just don't say Skype is used for cybersex.
- angryasian 13y agowhile the highschool story they spout sounds great on paper, a lot of their primary growth in the early days were early /b (4chan) threads for pics.
- nilkn 13y agoThe CEO of the company I work at uses Snapchat.