I have used Snapchat for almost a decade and never for sexting. Ephemerality and a lack of feeds make it a decent place for social media without social cooling. Direct messages and group messaging meanwhile can be saved indefinitely on a case by case basis (i.e. in the settings for the specific thread) and notifies the people you’re talking to of the change. It’s actually quite nice.
Lack of discoverability (which they are sort of adding, but mostly for bigger influencers and/or publications) is a positive. In my opinion they don’t suffer from the same issues as the other platforms. For example, there isn’t any sort of liking mechanism. If you like something, you message the person directly.
Maybe it’s a generational thing. That said, if I were to delete all my social media, I might keep Snapchat. It just isn’t the same. It’s more akin to Telegram but with a focus on photos.
EDIT: thread/conversation expiration can be increased to 24 hours, individual messages can be saved indefinitely, or screenshotted. Either notifies the user you’re contacting.
wow that's surprising, and it looks like its a by a good amount of people. I feel like snapchat is thought of as a dying company and twitter seems to be known by everyone. Though I get the feeling most people don't think twitter is a place for them to participate in, them being regular people.
> Given they are a $100B dollar company, they are far from 'dying'.
Meh, valuation isn't everything. Uber and WeWork also have high valuations, little tangible assets, but are bleeding money and have no clear path to profitability.
Somehow they have more REAL daily active users (DAU) (not bots) than Twitter, twice as valuable than them and have already expanded out from being just an app but have an ecosystem of integrations in other apps and are still alive after being copied everywhere.
Whereas the HN crowd 'thought' they either shut down or got acquired. As always, they 'thought' wrong. Again.
It's hard to grasp the reality check here but they are far from 'dying'.
Apparently, my wife learns a lot of Excel tips on Snapchat. My friend’s wife and my wife got into a long conversation once about the productivity stuff they learned on Snapchat. My friend and I are a little older and never used Snapchat. We were surprised and confused.
I do use https://map.snapchat.com occasionally when I’m feeling curious about what other humans are doing at this exact same moment on other parts of the world. I found posts from a community of Inuits once and learned about some of the food they eat.
