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- 000 July 2014
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CHAT help!
Hey everyone - I need your help! What are the 3-5 most popular "chatting" platforms for kids (ages 12-17) these days?
Facebook? Gchat? Snapchat? (What is snapchat? Is that even a thing? I think I've heard of it)
This information is needed for IMPORTANT RESEARCH being conducted at Kaiser Permanente.
Thanks.
Facebook? Gchat? Snapchat? (What is snapchat? Is that even a thing? I think I've heard of it)
This information is needed for IMPORTANT RESEARCH being conducted at Kaiser Permanente.
Thanks.
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( I am operating under the belief that I am supervising this activity and that she is chatting with friends from IRL not predators...btw)
In its most basic form, you take a picture or video and send it to a selected group of people (or one person) and they can only view it one time. The beauty of this is that it feels more intimate and private than posting something on Instagram or Facebook. You feel more free to be goofy or just show random things that you might not want to put somewhere more permanent.
They've recently added an actual text chat feature, but that seems kind of silly to me. Facebook came out with an app called "Slingshot" that's similar, but inferior, IMO, because it requires you to send a pic to see the pic that was sent to you... it's annoying (plus, no one is on it).
"Kids" are also into writing things in notepad on their phone, screenshotting that and posting it to Instagram, public or private. Also deep into communicating through Tumblr Asks and Ask.fm
Probably also other secret channels that I'm unaware of.
that's all I know
I think he just chats with friends in Minecraft.
We do a lot of work in Slack (https://slack.com) which is just glorified group chat, so maybe it's not that far off.
It's crazy. When I first heard of the internet, email was by far the coolest use of it I could imagine. So quickly it became lame. Things are going so quickly now. It took hundreds of years for mail delivery to develop, flourish, and come to seem lame/antiquated, now within half a generation email is dead?!
I fucking LOVE email, it is the thing that structures my life. It is my to-do list, my scheduler, my way to communicate with friends and family, my way to make money, etc. I have a very tight inbox/folder/organization game.
I use it in every area of my life
I keep in such intimate touch with so many far-flung friends with it
Being in our generation is so weird. We're the only in-between generation, in between pre/post internet. It's going to be interesting to see how we continue to have a different kind of relationship with the internet than younger AND older people as things continue
Hate the phone, especially the unavoidable conference call. Such a dumb waste of time.
I think the internet happened so quickly that there's been an usually enormous gap between the experience of just one generation from the next that is sort of incomparable. Even the personal automobile took more than one generation to become widespread. Even the telephone took more than one generation to become a thing EVERY PERSON USED EVERY DAY
I think it's unusual. Maybe something somewhat comparable might be the coming of the railroads--people write about it at the time as a traumatic event that changed everything, and maybe there I could see a generation that had horses and then suddenly in their early 20s saw the trains go zooming all over the place. EVEN THEN, however, it's not like they were taking trains all day every day, the way we are on the internet. It's not like all socializing and dating and communication and purchasing started taking place on trains, within the space of 15 years.
I mean, every generation has its own shit that the previous/future one doesn't fully get. Vietnam, segregation, the telegraph, various wars...but the internet is just so all-pervasive at almost every level of almost every demographic's daily life and it became that way SO QUICKLY. I really can not think of an equivalent, historically, to the conceptual trajectory of me as a 17 year old literally thinking the person who told me about email was fucking with me, to me 20 years later typing this message on my tiny computer with which I can buy books and shoes and talk to anyone I want and download music and read 18th century document scans that are housed across the sea from where I'm at now.
I have not researched it but I think this is unusual and that our generation is going to prove to be unusually weird in the long run when it comes to internet/data/etc
They're doing all these studies that show that actually our generation is the only one that is unhealthily distracted by/obsessed with our devices and facebook and whatever. Older people don't use them enough to have an unhealthy relationship, and younger people have more fully and naturally integrated them into their lives. WE'RE the ones writing books about how to turn off your computer so you can raise your children / how to simplify your life; WE'RE the ones stressing out to each other about how much time we spend on Facebook; WE'RE the ones who other people find rude for constantly looking at our phones while socializing. They've apparently found that young people don't text and drive, actually it's US doing that!
crazy shit