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12-08-2017, 08:20 AM
Bitcoin and the millennials may have created a perfect storm
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When you take a cool photo and share it online, do you care if it disappears tomorrow?
If you don't, I'd say there's a good chance you're younger then 30. I know this because Snapchat, the popular photo-sharing app which (typically) makes your photos disappear after a while, has a predominantly young user base (https://www.statista.com/statistics/326452/snapchat-age-group-usa/): 60% of its users are below 24, and 84% are under 34.
Folks that are over 35 or so (me included) have a tough time understanding the appeal of Snapchat. What good is taking a nice photo if it's going to disappear? Why bother in the first place? I tried to love Snapchat but I ended up going back to Instagram, where the last couple of years of my life are neatly recorded in a long list of horribly over-processed photos.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/07/bitcoin-millennials/)
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When you take a cool photo and share it online, do you care if it disappears tomorrow?
If you don't, I'd say there's a good chance you're younger then 30. I know this because Snapchat, the popular photo-sharing app which (typically) makes your photos disappear after a while, has a predominantly young user base (https://www.statista.com/statistics/326452/snapchat-age-group-usa/): 60% of its users are below 24, and 84% are under 34.
Folks that are over 35 or so (me included) have a tough time understanding the appeal of Snapchat. What good is taking a nice photo if it's going to disappear? Why bother in the first place? I tried to love Snapchat but I ended up going back to Instagram, where the last couple of years of my life are neatly recorded in a long list of horribly over-processed photos.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/07/bitcoin-millennials/)
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