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I am seeing conversations about Instagram and Snapchat growing in popularity and outside the typical teen demographic. Since I like being seen as an adult, and not one who is trying to be cool by desperately grasping at things to regain some appearance of youth, for years I have pretty much tried to ignore the newer social media platforms (of course after learning some basic facts about them and warning my children of the dangers of misuse).<\/p>\n
But it seems I finally do get pulled in. First it was Facebook. Then my family got Smartphones, and one of the first things my kids did was to get on Snapchat. As I struggled with figuring out the basics of my new phone, they were happily Snapping away, with their friends and each other. When I asked about all the giggling, they told me about Shapchat and asked me to join in, urging me to set up an account.<\/p>\n
I declined. I told them I had enough to keep up with having Facebook and needed to figure out what I was doing with this new phone that did everything but make coffee. I did, however, set up an Instagram account. This was more my speed, sharing photos. With my daughter\u2019s urging, my account is set to private, so I can control who views them (yay for having a smart kid!)<\/p>\n
Fast forward a couple months. I know how to navigate with my phone (mostly) and I am hearing about how one or the other of my children has done this or that from one of their siblings. I had just talked to him\/her and did not hear about it. How did they get this info? From Snapchat. I\u2019ve been left behind.<\/p>\n
So I realized, if I was going to find out more about their everydays, I needed to get an account. Well, actually, the dog did. (Snapchat messages include a photo, and I like pictures of her more than those of me. They all seem to miss her more than me anyway.) The whole process was more complicated that I had thought it would be. Snapchat is not as intuitive as Facebook and I have no patience for searching for online tutorials. I muddled through and finally thought I had it figure out. I had requested to be \u201cfriends\u201d with my kids and sent my first message (well, to three of them, I somehow got the fourth child\u2019s name wrong and still don\u2019t know who got that Snap). Thankfully it was just a picture of the dog.)<\/p>\n
I continued to get frustrated with the app, since there were things I knew were possible to do, but I couldn\u2019t figure out how. Over Thanksgiving break, they all taught me some tricks and we had fun adding to our \u201cstories\u201d with pictures we took of each other during a long car ride. I still don\u2019t do much with Snapchat, except follow stories (it still frustrates me that I have to ask for help). It can be more useful than a text when I see something and want to share it with one of them, but for regular conversation, I still prefer to use the phone as it was intended, or I text for non-urgent questions or comments.<\/p>\n
Although, now that I updated the app, (and got more \u201clessons\u201d) these new filters are kinda\u2019 fun\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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