{"id":3360,"date":"2016-01-08T16:01:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T00:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=3360"},"modified":"2016-01-08T16:12:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T00:12:30","slug":"snapchat-who-gives-an-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/08\/snapchat-who-gives-an-f\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapchat = &#8220;Who gives an F?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2016\/01\/07\/snapchat-twitch\/\">Admirably punchy summary<\/a> from Twitch founder Justin Kan of why people (especially kids) find Snapchat so liberating from the <a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/03\/the-instagram-lobster-trap\/\">horrible competitive anxiety they feel using Instagram<\/a>\u2014what he calls &#8220;the 9th circle of hell where everyone feels inadequate&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There\u2019s no combined feed. If someone wants to look at your s***, they have to click on you. There\u2019s no public view count, follower count, likes count, or any other social dick-measuring contest. You can just put whatever you\u2019re doing on Snapchat; if people don\u2019t like it, who gives a f***, you\u2019ll never know.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, everyone sucks together:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The content doesn\u2019t have to be that good, because \u201cit\u2019s going to disappear anyways, and everyone else\u2019s content isn\u2019t that great either.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The genius of Instagram was in helping regular people be better.<br \/>The genius of Snapchat was in <em><strong>making people not care<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Admirably punchy summary from Twitch founder Justin Kan of why people (especially kids) find Snapchat so liberating from the horrible competitive anxiety they feel using Instagram\u2014what he calls &#8220;the 9th circle of hell where everyone feels inadequate&#8221;: There\u2019s no combined feed. If someone wants to look at your s***, they have to click on you. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3364,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360\/revisions\/3364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}