Ben Gilbert: preference

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…This was such a legitimizing moment for Snapchat because until then to the extent anybody talked about it, it was like, “Oh, that’s just for sexting.” Right, right, I remember that. And I remember the turning point too where I started realizing, okay, we’ll talk about this in tech terms, but okay, my friends were using this for really telling me a story of their life as it’s actually happening without trying to make themselves look perfect. And this was before Snapchat stories. But I remember getting Snapchat and realizing these are pictures people would never put on Facebook and yet I’m engaging with these people all day every day. And maybe I’m not cool, I don’t know, none of them were sexting. Like every single one that I would get from someone is just like this is a candid casual peak into my life. And I kept trying to tell that narrative and even later some people were trying to tell me that narrative but I wanted to make the joke. I remember trying to tell that narrative to people at work and my family and everyone’s like, “Ugh.” It was taboo to have it installed on your phone because it was known as the app for sexting. Yup.…

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