I'm pretty torn on this. In my main circle of Snapchat friends, we use the app to make creative messages for each other that can't be seen again. It's really special because it feels like we're all hanging out again back in college: we're funny, spontaneous, a little bit inappropriate, and outsiders just won't get the jokes.
My own want for the update was to focus more on allowing us to express ourselves: give us easier and better tools to enable us to make messages more fun for each other. The feature could have been allowing users to record drawing strokes over a video or picture (sort of how Draw Something images presented themselves to the guesser) to give us another dimension to play with, time.
Instead the app just moved toward the mainstream app features, which are all mostly the same.
I think the main thrust of the update is providing this ephemeral face-to-face 'meeting' of your friends throughout the day, as if you're seeing them in the corridor, just like college. The text chat seems to be more of a platform for facilitating that.
I was thinking this. How for example, besides a tweaked UI and the ability to draw on an image/video before sending, is this now any different to Wottsapp?
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I'm pretty torn on this. In my main circle of Snapchat friends, we use the app to make creative messages for each other that can't be seen again. It's really special because it feels like we're all hanging out again back in college: we're funny, spontaneous, a little bit inappropriate, and outsiders just won't get the jokes.
My own want for the update was to focus more on allowing us to express ourselves: give us easier and better tools to enable us to make messages more fun for each other. The feature could have been allowing users to record drawing strokes over a video or picture (sort of how Draw Something images presented themselves to the guesser) to give us another dimension to play with, time.
Instead the app just moved toward the mainstream app features, which are all mostly the same.
I think the main thrust of the update is providing this ephemeral face-to-face 'meeting' of your friends throughout the day, as if you're seeing them in the corridor, just like college. The text chat seems to be more of a platform for facilitating that.
I was thinking this. How for example, besides a tweaked UI and the ability to draw on an image/video before sending, is this now any different to Wottsapp?