• bermuda@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    3 years ago

    Snapchat and Instagram are in a traffic jam for third place, with the ephemeral messaging app used by 60% of respondents and opened every day by 58%.

    Interesting. When I was in high school 6 years ago everybody had snapchat, and most people had instagram. And I mean everybody. Everybody I knew had me as a friend on snapchat and your clique was whose snapchat group chat you were in.

      • davehtaylor@beehaw.orgdeleted by creator
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        3 years ago

        I was surprised by this as well. Apparently it’s had a bit of a renaissance and it’s a hot thing again. No idea why.

    • petrescatraian@libranet.deOP
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      3 years ago

      @bermuda When Snapchat was popular, I had a shitty phone that I could not even upgrade WhatsApp on. This lasted for a few months to a year. Insta was already quite popular beforehand, but since I had no smartphone, I got late to the game. So my account was inactive for quite a bunch of time. Later I got in college and got a Huawei P8 Lite, and I used it for a while, with my friends, but more for the camera effects. We weren’t really chatting there. But there were more people posting stories there indeed. Now almost everyone is on Instagram.

  • JCPhoenix@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    3 years ago

    People, and especially teens, still use Snapchat? That’s surprising. I remember when that was super popular in the late 00s/early 20teens with my friends (I never really used it). I don’t think anyone that I know my age (mid 30s) uses it anymore. Which I suppose makes it “cool” again.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    3 years ago

    I was a bit surprised to find that YouTube has the top spot. Probably preferable from American point of view than TikTok.

    • tal@lemmy.today
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      3 years ago

      I mean, TikTok is comparable to YouTube Shorts rather than regular YouTube. I think that YouTube is useful, but don’t like TikTok or YouTube Shorts, the model where the service has a recommendation engine and just chooses a collection of short clips of videos to constantly feed you, one after the other. Apparently there are people who do like it, but…

    • flashgnash@lemm.ee
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      3 years ago

      I find YouTube unfortunately to be the best at grabbing my attention

      They’ve cracked the code with their UX to make it as addictive as humanly possible

      Open YouTube to watch a long form video, get shown about 5 shorts per one video and inevitably end up seeing something interesting in a short, then end up scrolling for way too long on your very own skinner box