Re:Snapchat Passes Twitter in Daily Usage
by enraged_camel on Friday June 03, 2016 @08:33AM
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It's not about privacy directly, but about the expectation for their old posts to be "forgotten." This is why the so-called "right to be forgotten" is/was a big deal in Europe.
It was more than that. People were looking at old wall posts (which were always public) and they couldn't believe that they'd ever had those conversations in public. Hence jumping to the conclusion that their private messages had somehow been converted into public posts.
I think it's fascinating on two counts. Firstly that the accepted etiquette of how we use social media changed so quickly. And secondly that people's brains can simply reject something they did in the past, if it doesn't fit their current sense of self.
> There is nothing to "get" other than to understand that as you become older the thing that's changing is you
For proof of this, look no further than when Facebook introduced the timeline, making it easier to view old wall posts.
People went crazy, claiming their private messages had been made public [0]. In truth, they just couldn't remember how unconcerned with privacy they used to be.
[0] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19699205