My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens”

Re:My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens” by hebleb on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @04:15PM (#11076029)

I didn't get it until literally this past Sunday. I've always had it installed on my phone, and have maybe ~10 friends on it, but I never actually sent anything. I would occasionally receive a snapchat from my friend, I would chuckle, and that was the end of it.

This Sunday my wife took my phone and just took a silly picture of ourselves during the Super Bowl and sent it to everyone on my list. Within minutes, I was getting a response from pretty much everyone, some people I haven't even talked to in months, and it was fun and made us laugh! I had the dumbest epiphany of my life. It's really just a fast, dumb way to communicate. That's it. Maybe I'll actually use it more now

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Re:My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens” by nostromo on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @04:19PM (#11076072)

This is why I like it, and I'm in my 30s.

It reminds me of Facebook back in the day, when it wasn't so serious. When it wasn't full of politics and Buzzfeed and not-so-humblebrags.

You don't have to worry (as much) about a silly photo coming back to haunt you in 10 years on Snapchat. It's much less formal feeling. The faces are my favorite; it's just a lot of fun to use.

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Re:My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens” by derwiki on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @04:36PM (#11076248)

I tried to use it, but I realized a core component was taking out my phone and snapping a pic in public. Using my phone in public makes me socially anxious (feel like I'm "part of the problem"), so I don't see a world where I can really snapchat.

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Re:My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens” by krabpaaltje on Saturday February 13, 2016 @03:54AM (#11093304)

Ah, social anxiety.

Nobody cares what you do in public.

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Re:My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens” by derwiki on Saturday February 20, 2016 @07:07PM (#11142610)

I do.

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Re:My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens” by lost_name on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @04:31PM (#11076194)

It really is just another social medium.

We used to have ICQ, AIM, MSN, YIM, and a host of other lesser known methods to chat. This is just one geared toward sending quick pictures. I doubt the privacy part of it is even significant to most users.

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