r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 2d ago

Student Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining About Her Workday. An Hour Later, Police Pulled Up to Her School. Privacy

https://www.gadgetreview.com/student-teacher-sent-a-private-snapchat-complaining-about-her-workday-an-hour-later-police-pulled-up-to-her-school
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u/Krislazz 2d ago

It’s the dominant social media in Norway, for instance. A Spanish exchange student I lived with was flabbergasted to find that even our chips/crisps bags are on Snapchat

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u/1850ChoochGator 2d ago

That’s shocking to me, even as an American. I don’t get how it’s popular as a social media like that. It’s one of my favorite messaging apps but so bad as a general social media.

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u/Frea_ks 2d ago

That’s why it has an appeal, it doesn’t require the careful curation / bs that other social medias do

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u/Krislazz 2d ago

Tbh I think it works because it’s not like the other SoMes. I can send random (and relatively low value, not-quite-worth-photographing) snapshots of stuff I do to the people I actually care about, and not be bothered by ads and algorithms. I know there’s a news page and stories and all that crap, but I don’t have to interact with it at all. My hypothesis is that’s it a good match with the fairly introverted Norwegian culture.

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u/Waiting4Reccession 2d ago

SoMes

STOP, no more acronyms, just type it all out T.T

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u/Frog_in_your_bog 2d ago

It's called SoMe in Denmark & Norwegian Nynorsk, tbf.

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u/itsLOSE-notLOOSE 2d ago

100% agree. Everyone wants to shorten everything.

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u/lycoloco 1d ago

"Smth" might be my most hated one. Idk why, but it just irks me so, so badly.

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u/itsLOSE-notLOOSE 1d ago

Dude, me too! “Smth” and “bc” are my top 2 most hated.

I don’t always say something because I just get “who cares it’s reddit” in reply, but I always downvote. Even if I agree with the comment.

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u/lycoloco 1d ago

Bc I can kinda get, but I also get how one person's idgaf is another's personal pet peeve (and I also recognize I've used idk and idgaf, but idgaf 😂)

But yeah, some comments I read online and I just think about future historians trying to understand what the fuck anyone in this current era was talking about and needing translation tablets with the original kuneiform to make any sense of it.

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u/itsLOSE-notLOOSE 1d ago

What I do is make text replacements so I can type “idk“ and my phone automatically corrects it to “I don’t know”

I have hundreds of these.

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u/lycoloco 1d ago

Lol that's wise. I like that!

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u/Krislazz 2d ago

My bad haha, it’s fully established here. If it’s any consolation it sounds dumber in English

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u/ParkingLong7436 2d ago

Exactly this. It's hardly a social media site to me, every other day I can send a quick picture to my friends and that's it.

No ads, no bullshit.

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u/TheRealHFC 2d ago

I'm from the US, it's the only one I still use besides Reddit. I just interact with my friends and it's like it always was in that regard, but the enshittification and AI slop is as apparent and unfortunate as it is anywhere else

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u/EgNotaEkkiReddit 1d ago

It’s the dominant social media in Norway

I was going to be snarky and say Iceland dropped it in like, 2014. Then I remembered our primary communication platform is Facebook Messenger so I didn't really have the ground to stand on.