All those social media experts who try to figure out if Facebook is dead or Twitter can really drive sales can now relax. A teenager has spoken.
Here is what “an actual teen” thinks about social media.
Facebook – it’s dead, but you need to have it because everyone does. It’s in fact “seen as an awkward family dinner party we can’t really leave.”
Twitter – it’s only used by a hard-core group of twitter addicts. It’s a ” place to follow/be followed by a bunch of random strangers, yet still have your identity be attached to it.”
Instagram – this is where teenagers are hanging out now days.
It’s always fascinating to me to see a friend with 1500 friends on Facebook only get 25 likes on a photo yet on Instagram (where she has 800 followers) she gets 253.
Snapchat – this is quickly becoming the most popular social network, but teen users are aware of privacy issues.
Snapchat is where we can really be ourselves while being attached to our social identity. Without the constant social pressure of a follower count or Facebook friends, I am not constantly having these random people shoved in front of me. Instead, Snapchat is a somewhat intimate network of friends who I don’t care if they see me at a party having fun.
I only know a handful of people (myself included) that believe Snapchat does delete your photos. Everyone else I know believes that Snapchat has some secret database somewhere with all of your photos on it.
Read the whole article at Medium.
