Snapchat

PhuckHugh

I just don't see the attraction for anyone over the age of 21 using this thing ... maybe i'm too old (mid-30s) but it's just a load of kids and attention seekers talking /making faces into a phone, right? Younger people are addicted and fear missing out on something if they are not checking it every few minutes. I've had it put to me that it's a great way of communicating - someone sending you a pic of where they are at, or what they are having for dinner - Is the world dumbing down or am I missing a trick here?

The hold social media has over young people is frightening.

Winterlong

Someone told me there are boobs on snapchat. So it must be good.

PhuckHugh

Winterlong wrote: »

Someone told me there are boobs on snapchat. So it must be good.

This changes things if true...

tomwaterford

It's by far and away my favourite social media (though tbf I have 20 or so friends on it)


Fcuking hate screenshotters though

oneilla

Some people in their mid-30s use other websites to communicate. Don't see the problem here.

hinault

PhuckHugh wrote: »

I just don't see the attraction for anyone over the age of 21 using this thing ... maybe i'm too old (mid-30s) but it's just a load of kids and attention seekers talking /making faces into a phone, right? Younger people are addicted and fear missing out on something if they are not checking it every few minutes. I've had it put to me that it's a great way of communicating - someone sending you a pic of where they are at, or what they are having for dinner - Is the world dumbing down or am I missing a trick here?

The hold social media has over young people is frightening.

Phones have become mirrors.

Preening, self indulgence, narcissism, validation.

GBX

Theres an element of fun to the point messaging to it as opposed to Facebook with peoples "inbox me hun xx posts" "How der she say that - fuming" type posts.

osarusan

tomwaterford wrote: »

It's by far and away my favourite social media (though tbf I have 20 or so friends on it)


Fcuking hate screenshotters though

I'm genuinely interested here - what makes it so good? What do you use it for?

elefant

PhuckHugh wrote: »

I just don't see the attraction for anyone over the age of 21 using this thing ... maybe i'm too old (mid-30s) but it's just a load of kids and attention seekers talking /making faces into a phone, right? Younger people are addicted and fear missing out on something if they are not checking it every few minutes. I've had it put to me that it's a great way of communicating - someone sending you a pic of where they are at, or what they are having for dinner - Is the world dumbing down or am I missing a trick here?

The hold social media has over young people is frightening.

It's just a fun way of communicating with friends through a text/picture combination.

You won't be using it to negotiate with the bank; you don't need to take it too seriously.

PhuckHugh

osarusan wrote: »

I'm genuinely interested here - what makes it so good? What do you use it for?

This is what I want to know ... to me it's people making faces or making their voice sound funny. It seems every 'moment' has to be sent to others on it.

Loveinapril

I have installed and uninstalled it four times. I still don't really get it. I just don't have that many things I want to take pictures of on any given day. My husband's niece likes to send filtered pics of her looking like a puppy quite a lot.

Wanderer78

I find most social media very very strange, for something that promotes socialising, it's rather anti-social. I don't go beyond boards myself

kingtut

tomwaterford wrote: »

Fcuking hate screenshotters though

Why bother screenshotting?

Mollyd90

I use it to keep in touch with family/close friends. dont really follow bloggers etc on it.
sometimes I come accross something funny/odd/nice etc that want to share with friends that I dont want to put on facebook. Im fed up of facebook, i find most of facebook posts are attention seeking or staged and everything is like a big announcement. Snapchat is more in the moment and real. Its probably who I follow on both though. my facebook friends are more extended than snapchat.

elefant

kingtut wrote: »

Why bother screenshotting?

Snapchat pictures auto-delete after you've viewed them, and the sender can set how long they can be viewed for (up to 10 seconds). If a picture you send is screenshotted, you get a notification.

Omackeral

PhuckHugh wrote: »

I just don't see the attraction for anyone over the age of 21 using this thing ... maybe i'm too old (mid-30s) but it's just a load of kids and attention seekers talking /making faces into a phone, right? Younger people are addicted and fear missing out on something if they are not checking it every few minutes. I've had it put to me that it's a great way of communicating - someone sending you a pic of where they are at, or what they are having for dinner - Is the world dumbing down or am I missing a trick here?

The hold social media has over young people is frightening.

Snapchat is sh1t. Your username is great.

PhuckHugh

Mollyd90 wrote: »

I use it to keep in touch with family/close friends. dont really follow bloggers etc on it.
sometimes I come accross something funny/odd/nice etc that want to share with friends that I dont want to put on facebook. Im fed up of facebook, i find most of facebook posts are attention seeking or staged and everything is like a big announcement. Snapchat is more in the moment and real. Its probably who I follow on both though. my facebook friends are more extended than snapchat.

I suppose that's a valid point - something caught in the moment. I can't see how you'd want to follow 'bloggers' on it... I presume most z list celebs are pimping themselves out 24/7 on it?

elefant

PhuckHugh wrote: »

I suppose that's a valid point - something caught in the moment. I can't see how you'd want to follow 'bloggers' on it... I presume most z list celebs are pimping themselves out 24/7 on it?

24/7, from A-list to Z-list.

cbyrd

osarusan wrote:

I'm genuinely interested here - what makes it so good? What do you use it for?

My OH uses it with his kids, cos their phones are checked my their mam and they've told him to message them on snapchat so she can't pry.
I don't use it yet so I can't really say...

Omackeral

Loveinapril wrote: »

My husband's niece likes to send filtered pics of her looking like a puppy quite a lot.

That's what they call the basic bitch filter.

Parchment

What i dont get is how are peoples lives interesting enough to document on something like Snapchat?

Mine would be something like - oh i'm at work, lunch now, home now, bed now.

kingtut

elefant wrote: »

Snapchat pictures auto-delete after you've viewed them, and the sender can set how long they can be viewed for (up to 10 seconds). If a picture you send is screenshotted, you get a notification.

They don't actually get deleted though, if you are tech-savvy enough they can be retrieved (just not sure why someone would go to the effort lol)

Loveinapril

Omackeral wrote: »

She's what they call a basic bitch

I'll let her know. She's 9.

Omackeral

Loveinapril wrote: »

I'll let her know. She's 9.

Didn't realise she was a wee one, sincere apologies. I see plenty of girls in their 20's and 30's with that dog filter on Facebook and you see it on Tinder too. It's the worst and I don't get it. Fine for a kid but I don't understand grown women using it. Sorry again, post amended.

ILikeBoats

Ever try watch TV while your missus is watching 20 snapchat videos in a row of bloggers talking tripe :mad:

Loveinapril

Omackeral wrote: »

Didn't realise she was a wee one, sincere apologies. I see plenty of girls in their 20's and 30's with that dog filter on Facebook and you see it on Tinder too. It's the worst and I don't get it. Fine for a kid but I don't understand grown women using it. Sorry again, post amended.

Haha, no worries!

Those filter things are ridiculous. And people get so excited by them. I remember a cousin of mine who is in her late thirties uploading about 4/5 filtered photos to Facebook going on about how brilliant they were. Ugh.

GLaDOS

I mainly use it to send exchange silly pictures with my girlfriend.

Wouldn't use it with any regularity though.

Mr.Plough

You can do funny **** with snapchat.

elefant

Omackeral wrote: »

That's what they call the basic bitch filter.

I believe 'hoe filter' is also a term in vogue for that one.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I like it - disappears after 10 seconds. Can send videos, funny faces, draw pics. It's good craic on nights out.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Omackeral wrote: »

Didn't realise she was a wee one, sincere apologies. I see plenty of girls in their 20's and 30's with that dog filter on Facebook and you see it on Tinder too. It's the worst and I don't get it. Fine for a kid but I don't understand grown women using it. Sorry again, post amended.

All due respect it's a bit mad a 9 year old is on snapchat in the first place.

PhuckHugh

LexieOnRale wrote: »

It's good craic on nights out.

This ... On a night out with friends and half of them welded to their phones missing the whole night. Bizarre carry on.

jamesbere

We'll set up boards snapchat, I'll start.

tomwaterford

osarusan wrote: »

I'm genuinely interested here - what makes it so good? What do you use it for?

I mainly use it as a messaging app (almost never use the filters/take selfies though)

It's nice time take random pics too at times like!!
Like today a friend sent me a pic of a cow and he drew a hurley in its mouth with a very NSFW tagline


I like the randomness of it,don't really care enough to be following bloggers/sites like Joe. Ie on it....but each time their own

tomwaterford

jamesbere wrote: »

We'll set up boards snapchat, I'll start.

Missing the hoe filter :pac:

The_Captain

Is it really worse than being in your mid thirties and using a name like PhuckHugh on an internet forum?

valoren

It's currently valued at 34 billion dollars following it's IPO earlier in March.
34 billion and it has yet to turn a profit. It lost circa half a billion last year and they have admitted that user growth is already slowing.

Madness.

PhuckHugh

The_Captain wrote: »

Is it really worse than being in your mid thirties and using a name like PhuckHugh on an internet forum?

What's a good internet names these days?

Winterlong

PhuckHugh wrote: »

What's a good internet names these days?

PM me nudes has set the standard here on boards.

Ashbx

Im 29 and am not a big user of social media but I would use it a lot with my friends. I use it so that my gallery on my phone (and my friends gallery) doesn't fill up with unwanted photos. Its a handy way to send a photo of something that is not necessarily worth keeping.

jamesbere

tomwaterford wrote: »

Missing the hoe filter :pac:

I only have slut filter

GerryDerpy

jamesbere wrote: »

We'll set up boards snapchat, I'll start.

Where is your mouth?

jamesbere

GerryDerpy wrote: »

Where is your mouth?

Hidden under that fabulous beard

Boscoirl

Don't use it myself, but there was a groups of girls in front of me at the point the other night and all they did through the entire gig was take the same selfie and post it to what I presume was snapchat. They paid very little attention to the stage.

Winterlong

Boscoirl wrote: »

Don't use it myself, but there was a groups of girls in front of me at the point the other night and all they did through the entire gig was take the same selfie and post it to what I presume was snapchat. They paid very little attention to the stage.

Seems to be an awful lot of people who go to gigs and 'experience' them thru the screen of their phone.
Like the proof of their attending is more important than the experience of attending.

Shannon757

Love Snapchat. My only method of communication with friends. Don't use filters that much though or selfies.
I'm young though so it's OK.

Dravokivich

Don't see the need to constantly take pictures of something or myself. So I gather I'm not the target audience.

PARlance

valoren wrote: »

It's currently valued at 34 billion dollars following it's IPO earlier in March.
34 billion and it has yet to turn a profit. It lost circa half a billion last year and they have admitted that user growth is already slowing.

Madness.

Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat etc etc.... all just one big pile of steaming poo in business terms. Somewhere down the line people will realise it and billions will be wiped out.

seamus

Teenagers use Snapchat, adults use Whatsapp.

Snapchat is really more of an "everybody look at me" communication format, which is what being a teenager is all about. Same as people who are famous for making youtube videos.

When you get older you realise that constantly trying to be the centre of attention is the quickest way to lose friends and poison relationships and most people grow out of it. One can argue that Facebook and Instagram are "centre of attention" apps, but it's more passive than Snapchat.

con___manx1

snapchat is a great tool to use if your having an affair ; )

armaghlad

Snapchat is a great app. It's not everyone's cup of tea but it is a very useful and fun way to communicate visually with friends. Also a great tool for marketing, plenty of businesses, celebrities, major football teams etc use it to communicate with their audience. So it can't be that bad really.