Why #snapchat’s Design Will Make It the Most Popular in the Long Run
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PART 1In the design of #facebook and #instagram, everything bad happens.You will get why Snapchat is better.On Facebook and Instagram, the issue is peer comparison. Specifically, upward comparison. When we are on social media, we are often drawn in from a state of loneliness. That’s why we want to distract ourselves with online social activity. We then subconsciously contrast our isolated, weak selves with romanticized, glorified lives of others.We are stimulated in the short term from the novel information about people in our community. But in the long term we are pretty hurt by the upward comparison: comparison against others that are seemingly in a better position than us. Studies linked other articles show that, for Facebook.Then self improvement on Facebook and Instagram kicks in. We (...)