My two buddies were all excited about Snapchat and insisted on enthusiastically showing me how it works.
You take a picture of your face you press this button and then you choose an effect … Open your mouth and a tongue flies out, raise your eyebrows and water gushes out of your eyes, click here and you are wearing shades and a cop uniform. This is very strange ..
Ok …..What then?
Well you can put that out as a story for “all your fans” to see or you can send it directly to a chosen few.
How do I find people to follow, how do they find me…?
They show me posts by people they are following and it all seems a bit odd.. Most people seem to be messing around with nothing at all decent going on. Some of the people that I followed seem to be convinced that they are celebrities and keep talking to the camera about their day. You are not a celebrity!!
I must admit I quite admire the guy who records himself jogging…try taking a selfie mini movie while running! I’d like to see that on the claim form – how exactly did you fall into that pothole?
One woman I know quite well keeps posting from her bed, telling us how tired and sick she is (this is done with full make up by the way!) and moaning about all the married men who are coming on to her. Really (I feel like calling her and having a quiet word)??
I find one US politician, Cory Booker who seems to be using it in a semi intelligent way and of course Kim Kardashian is offering us another version of her reality TV life. Social media guru and entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk has effectively become an actor and this is another platform for him to do his thing – he likes eating bananas, I’ve discovered!
When you open up Snapchat the camera on your phone is automatically looking at you….Ok, you can take a picture or film yourself. What do you say?
Is it like Facebook…not really, Twitter….Definitely not, Instagram…The most like it but the posts just stay for 24 hours.
I don’t like it, it seems incredibly egotistical and I’m really uncomfortable because I don’t really know what I’m doing and I haven’t quite figured out how to use it..but I will!
This is good … I train and advise people on using social media all of the time so this is a really great learning for me.
I now know how they feel – I had forgotten what it was like to feel like a dinosaur!
Greg Canty is a partner of Fuzion
Fuzion offer Social Media Consultancy and Training from our offices in Dublin and Cork, Ireland
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April 25, 2016 at 11:05 am |
This is exactly why I don’t like Snapchat! So boring and full of people who think they are a lot more interesting than they are. Maybe I’m just getting old…
April 25, 2016 at 12:09 pm |
Maybe this is one platform that just isn’t right for us!
April 25, 2016 at 1:02 pm |
I’m with you on this Greg. I’m trying it out but very uncomfortable with it. It’s so I cantered and that’s not something my (our?) generation is comfortable with.
Of course the egotist in me is either saying that 10 seconds isn’t long enough to say something useful and in the unlikely event that I do say something important it needs to be preserved, not deleted in 24 hours…
April 25, 2016 at 1:15 pm |
I am with you Paul – if you do put so much effort into a ‘story’ you want to be able to use it again in many case. I don’t get it! Greg