Twitter Snapchat battle rages on with Snapchat the leader
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Does this really surprise anyone? Many Americans have a hard time counting to 100 without getting confused. Taking a picture of something is so much more simple, and quick.
http://www.cnet.com/news/twitter-facing-stiff-competition-from-snapchat/
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The thing about Twitter... it contains tons of data. Snapchat has... nothing. If people find a new tool to play with Scanchat is gone overnight and no one will remember it (literally, it is going to be forgotten.) It's the communications channel purely for conversations that don't matter. Everything on it will be forgotten and its users have no relevance. Snapchat really has no current system to monetize as its platform isn't sticky.
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At the risk of sounding like a complete dinosaur who hasn't a clue what he's on about - Twitter and Snapchat are completely different things aren't they?
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@Carnival-Boy Are you asking me or the author?
Snapchat is an app that allows you to take a picture of whatever, after so long it disappears.
Twitter is a communication channel via words and pictures.
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@Carnival-Boy said in Twitter Snapchat battle rages on with Snapchat the leader:
At the risk of sounding like a complete dinosaur who hasn't a clue what he's on about - Twitter and Snapchat are completely different things aren't they?
Yes, totally. Twitter is a microblogging platform. Basically a normal blog that is limited to 140 characters per post. So only tiny posts are allowed. And it has a handy subscription engine.
Snapchat is like everything you hate about texting and nothing you like about it. Literally the worst thing I've ever seen. It's basically image texting (snap a selfie, write three words on it) where the receiver has the image automatically delete in ten seconds. So you can't say anything important and your efforts are lost over time. It's for people who loathe communications but want to do it anyway.
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Mostly popular with kids I believe, where not keeping a record is considered a key selling point.
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@Carnival-Boy said in Twitter Snapchat battle rages on with Snapchat the leader:
Mostly popular with kids I believe, where not keeping a record is considered a key selling point.
Yes, it's purely for kids. It's the hipster middle schooler messaging platform. For people that any record of what they said would be embarrassing.
I think that these kids are going to seriously regret Snapchat when they get older. Taking all the effort to record their lives... and burning it as they went. It's the scorched earth policy for your own life.
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Adults today talk about how awesome our kids will have it to have their lives recorded. Pictures and videos of everything. They will never forget where they were and what they did. YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc. are going to hold our records. We will be able to replay our lives. Reconnect, remember. The older you get, the more this will be awesome. Something to let our children remember us. Something for our great grandchildren to discover us.
But these Snapchat kids are intentionally throwing all of that away. Living with modern tools as if it is the 1960s. They are the luddites of the modern world.
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I assume they use different tools for different purposes. I imagine that's what I would have done when I was a teenager.
Visiting the Grand Canyon - one for the great grand-kids - post on Instragram
Flashing your butt at passing cars on the bus on the way to the Grand Canyon - post on Snapchat -
@Carnival-Boy said in Twitter Snapchat battle rages on with Snapchat the leader:
I assume they use different tools for different purposes. I imagine that's what I would have done when I was a teenager.
It's basically known as the peer to peer child porn service. That's why it is popular. Things that are illegal go there. While I approve of privacy, Snapchat is probably the best example of where too much overly simplistic privacy is a bad thing.
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@Carnival-Boy said in Twitter Snapchat battle rages on with Snapchat the leader:
Flashing your butt at passing cars on the bus on the way to the Grand Canyon - post on Snapchat
Or, you know, don't take a picture of it.
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@scottalanmiller said in Twitter Snapchat battle rages on with Snapchat the leader:
@Carnival-Boy said in Twitter Snapchat battle rages on with Snapchat the leader:
Mostly popular with kids I believe, where not keeping a record is considered a key selling point.
Yes, it's purely for kids. It's the hipster middle schooler messaging platform. For people that any record of what they said would be embarrassing.
I think that these kids are going to seriously regret Snapchat when they get older. Taking all the effort to record their lives... and burning it as they went. It's the scorched earth policy for your own life.
I'm sure they will be a little unhappy to not have all the cool photos - and those who do have a half a brain are taking a second picture in a more permanent app - but really, do you think most tweens/teens want to keep that crap around forever? Don't you think that they will migrate away from snapchat as they get older/wiser and realize the childness that is snapchat? But I think it could be fun/etc for the ability to blast something for a short time. But what crazy teens don't realize is that anyone can make it permanent by capturing the screen on the phone.
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@Dashrender said in Twitter Snapchat battle rages on with Snapchat the leader:
@scottalanmiller said in Twitter Snapchat battle rages on with Snapchat the leader:
@Carnival-Boy said in Twitter Snapchat battle rages on with Snapchat the leader:
Mostly popular with kids I believe, where not keeping a record is considered a key selling point.
Yes, it's purely for kids. It's the hipster middle schooler messaging platform. For people that any record of what they said would be embarrassing.
I think that these kids are going to seriously regret Snapchat when they get older. Taking all the effort to record their lives... and burning it as they went. It's the scorched earth policy for your own life.
I'm sure they will be a little unhappy to not have all the cool photos - and those who do have a half a brain are taking a second picture in a more permanent app - but really, do you think most tweens/teens want to keep that crap around forever? Don't you think that they will migrate away from snapchat as they get older/wiser and realize the childness that is snapchat? But I think it could be fun/etc for the ability to blast something for a short time. But what crazy teens don't realize is that anyone can make it permanent by capturing the screen on the phone.
Clearly they don't WANT to keep it around, but they will want to HAVE kept it once they realize that they literally threw away their childhoods.
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@scottalanmiller said in Twitter Snapchat battle rages on with Snapchat the leader:
@Dashrender said in Twitter Snapchat battle rages on with Snapchat the leader:
@scottalanmiller said in Twitter Snapchat battle rages on with Snapchat the leader:
@Carnival-Boy said in Twitter Snapchat battle rages on with Snapchat the leader:
Mostly popular with kids I believe, where not keeping a record is considered a key selling point.
Yes, it's purely for kids. It's the hipster middle schooler messaging platform. For people that any record of what they said would be embarrassing.
I think that these kids are going to seriously regret Snapchat when they get older. Taking all the effort to record their lives... and burning it as they went. It's the scorched earth policy for your own life.
I'm sure they will be a little unhappy to not have all the cool photos - and those who do have a half a brain are taking a second picture in a more permanent app - but really, do you think most tweens/teens want to keep that crap around forever? Don't you think that they will migrate away from snapchat as they get older/wiser and realize the childness that is snapchat? But I think it could be fun/etc for the ability to blast something for a short time. But what crazy teens don't realize is that anyone can make it permanent by capturing the screen on the phone.
Clearly they don't WANT to keep it around, but they will want to HAVE kept it once they realize that they literally threw away their childhoods.
Really? that ass picture you talked about? they will want that in 10-20-30 years? What I don't know - are kids ONLY using snapchat, and never taking any more permanent pictures? or, are they smart enough to use both?
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@Dashrender said in Twitter Snapchat battle rages on with Snapchat the leader:
@scottalanmiller said in Twitter Snapchat battle rages on with Snapchat the leader:
@Dashrender said in Twitter Snapchat battle rages on with Snapchat the leader:
@scottalanmiller said in Twitter Snapchat battle rages on with Snapchat the leader:
@Carnival-Boy said in Twitter Snapchat battle rages on with Snapchat the leader:
Mostly popular with kids I believe, where not keeping a record is considered a key selling point.
Yes, it's purely for kids. It's the hipster middle schooler messaging platform. For people that any record of what they said would be embarrassing.
I think that these kids are going to seriously regret Snapchat when they get older. Taking all the effort to record their lives... and burning it as they went. It's the scorched earth policy for your own life.
I'm sure they will be a little unhappy to not have all the cool photos - and those who do have a half a brain are taking a second picture in a more permanent app - but really, do you think most tweens/teens want to keep that crap around forever? Don't you think that they will migrate away from snapchat as they get older/wiser and realize the childness that is snapchat? But I think it could be fun/etc for the ability to blast something for a short time. But what crazy teens don't realize is that anyone can make it permanent by capturing the screen on the phone.
Clearly they don't WANT to keep it around, but they will want to HAVE kept it once they realize that they literally threw away their childhoods.
Really? that ass picture you talked about? they will want that in 10-20-30 years? What I don't know - are kids ONLY using snapchat, and never taking any more permanent pictures? or, are they smart enough to use both?
Well I have no idea, but Snapchat users tend to be of the "only Snapchat" from what I can tell. And for obvious reasons... if you know what you are doing you'd never use Snapchat, if you are using Snapchat, chances are you are not thinking through the consequences. So the use of it nearly always creates the later situation.
And ARE you taking pictures of your butt? I'm not aware of that being a big problem. It's all the selfies and parties and high school graduations and such. And, in case you've never tried to do something like this, if you are taking pictures of an event for Snapchat, the opportunities to take those pics for something else are likely lost. Things rarely happen over and over for you to "capture the moment" again. So using Snapchat throws all of that stuff away.
