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Why'd You Push That Button?

What keeps people on Snapchat?

Why'd You Push That Button?

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Arts, Technology, Design

4.4683 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In the social media world, Instagram has dominated as the most used app in 2019, but what happened to Snapchat? Ashley Carman and Kaitlyn Tiffany dive into where Snapchat is after Instagram stole their innovative "story" feature, and what the people who still use it are using it for.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.2

Hello and welcome to Why'd You Push That Button to Shower Caitlin Tiffany and Ashley Carmen, that's me, examine all the choices technology forces us to make.

0:46.5

And today we're talking about why people still use Snapchat.

0:51.9

Okay, so we realize that we talk a lot about Instagram on this show.

0:57.2

It's one of our favorite topics.

0:58.7

And we haven't really done many episodes slash any episodes specifically about Snapchat.

1:05.4

There's an obvious reason for this.

1:06.8

I remember four or five years ago when all of my friends were telling me to download Snapchat

1:11.6

so that we could talk to each other.

1:13.2

And now, when I open the app, there's nothing.

1:16.0

There's no stories.

1:17.1

There's no people except for my one friend, Christy, which is the only reason I continue to open the app.

1:23.1

So we want to know who is still using Snapchat and what are they using it for. But before we get into

1:30.1

all that, we have to go back in time and figure out what made Snapchat so popular in the first place.

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