> Almost all of my friends, who were prolific snap users in college, have converted away to instagram.
Anecdotes are not evidence. Is this what it has come to just to make a 'point'?
> So yes all of that is anecdotal but I suspect the bots I'm seeing are just the tip of the iceberg of what is actually making up the growing userbase of the app. Most of the young'ns appear to be on tiktok these days anyways.
Some social networks have more bots than others. Especially more bots if the product is available as a web page unlike an app-based product which the barrier is higher. Given the security there, I doubt that there are millions of bots actively posing as users on Snapchat, verses the ones anyone encounters on Twitter, TikTok and Instagram.
The kids these days are also certainly using TikTok, but clearly that has been banned in some countries. Take India for example, which Snapchat seems to be thriving there. [0]
Regardless, I don't like or use either of these products since they are both essentially digital addictive drugs companies manipulating people on what is seen and unseen on their platforms. But I don't see how 'anecdotes' from anyone here hold true when the numbers from the earnings say otherwise. [1][2]
Anecdotes are not evidence. Is this what it has come to just to make a 'point'?
> So yes all of that is anecdotal but I suspect the bots I'm seeing are just the tip of the iceberg of what is actually making up the growing userbase of the app. Most of the young'ns appear to be on tiktok these days anyways.
Some social networks have more bots than others. Especially more bots if the product is available as a web page unlike an app-based product which the barrier is higher. Given the security there, I doubt that there are millions of bots actively posing as users on Snapchat, verses the ones anyone encounters on Twitter, TikTok and Instagram.
The kids these days are also certainly using TikTok, but clearly that has been banned in some countries. Take India for example, which Snapchat seems to be thriving there. [0]
Regardless, I don't like or use either of these products since they are both essentially digital addictive drugs companies manipulating people on what is seen and unseen on their platforms. But I don't see how 'anecdotes' from anyone here hold true when the numbers from the earnings say otherwise. [1][2]
[0] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/snap-hi...
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/20/snap-reaches-500-million-mon...
[2] https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/snapchat-growing-faster-facebook...