{"id":5934,"date":"2016-07-18T13:26:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T13:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=5934"},"modified":"2016-06-02T13:28:17","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T13:28:17","slug":"linked-how-i-learned-to-love-snapchat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/07\/18\/linked-how-i-learned-to-love-snapchat\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;How I Learned to Love Snapchat&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/22\/magazine\/how-i-learned-to-love-snapchat.html?_r=0\">via NYTimes Magazine<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2012, I calculated that I sent about 7,000 texts a month; now, thanks to the creeping unwieldiness of phones and the misfirings of autocorrect, I can barely manage to peck out half a sentence before I become aggravated by the effort and give up. To combat that fatigue, I\u2019ve turned to newer ways to talk and interact with friends, primarily voice memos. These function like a highly evolved version of voice mail \u2014 there\u2019s no expectation of a return call, or even a simultaneous conversation. Freed from that pressure, my friends and I leave one another memos about episodes of \u201cRuPaul\u2019s Drag Race\u201d and \u201cEmpire,\u201d the themes of \u201cLemonade\u201d or even just a detailed account of a date or run-in with an ex. The trend is catching on elsewhere: According to an article on Vice\u2019s website Motherboard, voice notes have become so popular in Argentina that they\u2019ve virtually replaced text messages altogether.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I enjoyed the article but this stood out to me most. I\u2019ve written about this a lot. People never took the time to master the PC. They just trudged along hating their PC, getting viruses, getting ads, getting hacked, installing 5,000 tool bars and Bonzi Buddy and AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, clicking every link in Hotmail spam and ultimately breaking everything and touch-typing their way to Internet master-ship. Then, phones and tablets sort of saved us. Casual users could do everything on their phones but the phones don\u2019t really do everything well, it\u2019s like 10% of what a computer is. Phones are crippled by their size, battery life, touch screens and mobile operating systems oh and don\u2019t forget about wireless internet that\u2019s still slower than home WiFi not to mention WiFi itself is crap compared to being plugged in directly to your modem (which is why my whole house is wired w\/ Ethernet).<\/p>\n<p>Now we\u2019re in this world where people hate typing on their phones and they communicate entirely using low-resolution front-facing cameras or sending audio messages to each other (cough, voicemails that supposedly everyone hates). I don\u2019t get it. We\u2019re in this strange world where everyone still hates the technology they use every day but won\u2019t take the time to master using it to its fullest potential. Instead of trying to figure out why we hate typing on our phones, we just decide to use Snapchat instead.<\/p>\n<p>Was the PC really that broken or were we just bad at using them to their fullest potential?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via NYTimes Magazine: In 2012, I calculated that I sent about 7,000 texts a month; now, thanks to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-08-30T23:57:55Z","apple_news_api_id":"927bbd32-a5fc-4e3e-9d4b-f5a879dd5af2","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-08-30T23:57:55Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Aknu9MqX8Tj6dS_Woed1a8g","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1xI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6653,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/02\/14\/linked-ringing-in-2017-with-updates-to-our-google-voice-apps\/","url_meta":{"origin":5934,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Ringing in 2017 with updates to our Google Voice apps&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"February 14, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Google Blog: The first thing you\u2019ll notice about the updated Google Voice apps is a cleaner, more intuitive design that keeps everything organized. Your inbox now has separate tabs for text messages, calls and voicemails. Conversations stay in one continuous thread, so you can easily see all your messages\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6187,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/10\/01\/linked-kanye-deconstructed-the-human-voice-as-the-ultimate-instrument\/","url_meta":{"origin":5934,"position":1},"title":"Linked: \u201cKanye deconstructed: The human voice as the ultimate instrument\u201d","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"October 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Excellent break-down. I don\u2019t follow what you\u2019d call \u201cmodern rap\u201d. I haven\u2019t heard a single Drake-Song and I live in a world where I think Black Eyed Peas are still a thing. I think they are, no? 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Whether it\u2019s the mundane update about what someone had for breakfast, or that they\u2019re late for school,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4743,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/07\/08\/linked-why-not-google\/","url_meta":{"origin":5934,"position":5},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Why not Google?&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"July 8, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"via Marco: There\u2019s a widespread assumption that heavy use of Google products is unavoidable and that they\u2019re always the \u201cbest\u201d. That hasn\u2019t been my experience. I\u2019m still very happy with DuckDuckGo for search, and Apple Maps has been no worse than Google Maps for me recently. 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