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by popularonion 469 days ago
If only Snapchat didn’t lose cultural relevance, how different things could have been
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Apparently still mainstream popular in some countries! I don't live there anymore, but apparently most people (still) use Snapchat in Sweden for most of their communication, at least judging by even my friends and family who still lives there. Compared to Spain where I live now where it's maybe 10%/20%/70% Telegram/Instagram/Whatsapp that most people communicate via, almost no one I know here uses snapchat except foreigners.

Shockingly, most people believe that snapchat actually deletes the content the end-user can no longer see themselves via the app, which for me sounds like an absolutely bananas assumption. But it makes it clear how far the disconnect is between people with tech-know-how vs "normal" people.

I live in a WhatsApp country and nobody I know uses disappearing messages. I don't think people even know about the feature.

Having the option doesn't mean much if people don't use it.