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Re:Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage by prawn on Thursday June 02, 2016 @08:25PM (#11827437)
I don't use SnapChat, but once you have children, your parents and siblings are interested in seeing the funny little day to day things your kids do. 5 seconds here and there of eating breakfast, getting dressed for the day, running around, etc. Twitter and Instagram don't really cover that use case well at all.

I use private photos/videos on Instagram to share those things with my family, but it's very clunky and would feel like spamming to send more than 2-3 curated photos per day. I gather that with SnapChat there is far less curation.

Re:Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage by mnsc on Friday June 03, 2016 @09:56AM (#11830310)
We use groupchat in WhatsApp. Two separate groups, one for each side of the family. Works ok but I can kinda begin to see the benefit of snapchat's ephemeral attitude even though I haven't tried it myself. However I don't se my wife's mother wanting to switch. She's retired and finds a great deal of joy of revisiting old movies of the kids. She would want to save the snaps anyways but I guess you can do that?
Re:Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage by rpgmaker on Thursday June 02, 2016 @11:44PM (#11828154)
> I don't use SnapChat, but once you have children, your parents and siblings are interested in seeing the funny little day to day things your kids do.

No they aren't interested. They are just too nice to tell you to stop spamming them.

Re:Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage by prawn on Friday June 03, 2016 @03:07AM (#11828811)
Not sure why you've responded in such a presumptive and negative way. I find it rude. Maybe your family isn't close and it's not something you can identify with?

My immediate family are always interested. I don't bombard extended family or friends though many still voluntarily follow feeds dedicated to the children.