>what about regular pictures? They’re supposed to take candid moments of the real world
I'm not sure that is an accurate representation of photography as a medium, nor has it ever been.
Re:Introducing the new Snapchat
by aesclepius on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @01:53PM
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I profoundly disagree, documentary photography is as ever-present and ever-useful as it has been.
What proportion of photographs are taken with that intent?
Re:Introducing the new Snapchat
by semi-extrinsic on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @12:24PM
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> playing golf is posted on Facebook twice as much as doing the dishes, yet people spend 5x more time doing the dishes
By that metric traditional newspapers are much worse - the ratio of stories on golf versus on dishwashing is much greater than 5x.
Not only do I think its true of all social media, I think it's less true of Snapchat because the medium has less of a memory.
What social media do people think is more candid?
Re:Introducing the new Snapchat
by JustAnotherPat on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @12:14PM
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there's nothing candid about snapchat. Candid is heartfelt. Not something that disappears in 20 seconds.
The operative word there was more. I also disagree that something that disappears can't be heartfelt but to each their own.
> playing golf is posted on Facebook twice as much as doing the dishes, yet people spend 5x more time doing the dishes.
That would be by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz in this NYT article.
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/06/opinion/sunday/dont-let-f...
Re:Introducing the new Snapchat
by VirgilShelton on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @02:08PM
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Obviously you’ve never played golf
And if we step back from social media, what about regular pictures? They’re supposed to take candid moments of the real world, but even if we’re having a bad day, we smile and act happy for pictures.
I agree that a divide between reality and ideal is happening here, just that it isn’t really new.