First, when it comes to messaging friends and connecting with people most college kids uses Snapchat. I am in a big college and everyone at my university uses Snapchat for messaging. I believe that it is smart for Snapchat to default on camera when opening the app this way it keeps the distraction away and you can focus on whatever you were planning to do like reading a message plus it is a good privacy oriented platform.

Second, when it comes to being silly and occupy boredom, kids are using tiktok. TilTok has a great recommendation algorithm. Sometime, if I don’t pay attention I can spends hours on the app. TikTok became a safe space for younger generation, where they don’t need filters and photoshop to be part of a community.

Here is a great article in WSJ about TikTok

https://www.wsj.com/articles/help-im-trapped-inside-tiktok-a...