Kareem’s thoughts

Kareem

I think Snapchat as a concept is strange. I think it’s even more strange how we use it, sending contextless photos of our faces to eachother.

That being said, I still use Snapchat. I’m not opposed to it. It’s useful and can be fun.

I think people who don’t use Snap miss a whole part of the modern teenage social scene. There is a casualness to it. I think that makes it a little more unfiltered.

Text messages are reserved for serious conversations and talking to adults.

Instagram is for more formal documentation. So Snapchat is used to fill the gaps.

As for the dating culture on the app, I think that it desensitizes a lot of the experience which is sad for our generation but there isn’t much you can do about it.

There is a lot of expectation and “rules” for how you’re supposed to use specific social medias, or how you’re supposed to act in certain stages of talking

If you don’t follow in line with these expectations you seem “weird”, like you come off too strong and you’re unaware. That’s something I don’t like about this generation, I feel like everyone is out to embarass everyone else.

With the “casualness” that I mentioned, a lot of Snapchat can be regarded as meaningless, which is unfortunate since it is prefered over a lot of other social medias.

I’m not sure what that says about my peers and I.