{"id":3501,"date":"2016-02-09T14:20:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T22:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=3501"},"modified":"2016-02-09T14:20:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T22:20:55","slug":"of-snapchat-primate-needs-and-taking-out-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/09\/of-snapchat-primate-needs-and-taking-out-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Snapchat, primate needs, and taking out steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to be successful, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2013\/09\/ev-williams-xoxo\/\">says<\/a> Twitter founder \u00a0Evan Williams,\u00a0\u201cTake a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time\u2026Identify that desire and use modern technology to <strong>take out steps<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m reminded of this reading about teens\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/benrosen\/how-to-snapchat-like-the-teens\">hyperactive, nonstop use of Snapchat<\/a> (40 selfies <em>per minute!<\/em>) Jason Kottke makes some <a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/16\/02\/snapchat-like-the-teens\">interesting sociological observations<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Wheels, domesticated crops &amp; animals, industrialization, cars, and airplanes made it so that people could live farther and farther apart from each other, which is weird for social animals like humans and particularly difficult for teenagers for whom that social connection is the most important thing in their lives\u2026\u00a0Interacting with 190 friends dozens or even hundreds of times a day probably <strong>feels a lot like being back in a hunter\/gatherer band, socially speaking<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As I <a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/03\/the-instagram-lobster-trap\/\">asked<\/a> the other day, We\u2019re all just a bunch of apes lekking around the water hole, aren\u2019t we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to be successful, says Twitter founder \u00a0Evan Williams,\u00a0\u201cTake a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time\u2026Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.\u201d I\u2019m reminded of this reading about teens\u2019 hyperactive, nonstop use of Snapchat (40 selfies per minute!) Jason Kottke makes some [&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":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3504,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions\/3504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}