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Note to Self

Will You Do a Snapchat Streak With Me?

Note to Self

WNYC Studios

Self-improvement, Tech, Note, Npr, Education, Public, Wnyc, Manoush, York, To, New, Self, Radio, Business, Technology, Relationships, City, Society & Culture, Zomorodi, Newtechcity

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2017

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

A little yellow ghost has joined Manoush’s home screen. This week, Note to Self takes the plunge into Snapchat. Where we find lots of opportunities for passive aggression, obligation, and shade. And that’s not a bug. It’s a feature. With designer Tristan Harris, of Time Well Spent, and Snapchat artist CyreneQ.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh my god, it's 100 days on Snapchat!

0:02.6

I just remembered the name!

0:04.6

Oh my god!

0:05.6

What happens when a tech company designs an app that makes absolutely no sense to half

0:12.9

the population and triggers intense, some might say, compulsive behaviors in the other half?

0:19.9

I'll tell you what happens.

0:22.2

That company grows to be worth over 20 billion dollars.

0:29.7

Let's note to self the tech show about being human.

0:32.7

I'm Manouche Zomorodi, this week, Snapchat and technologies that hijack our minds.

0:40.6

How they work and how they're changing the way that we talk to each other.

0:45.6

Sometimes for good, sometimes for bad, and sometimes for very strange.

0:54.3

So let's start this episode with how Snapchat actually works.

0:59.2

For those of you who are completely clueless and don't worry, you are not alone.

1:03.3

If you want to see it again, you hold down and replay it.

1:07.2

But you only need to replay one.

1:09.5

This is producer Megan Cunain, a millennial, teaching me and senior producer Kat Aron, Jen

1:15.6

Xers.

1:17.0

What Snapchat actually does.

1:18.0

But what if I want to go back and see things that she's per chance they only have 24 hours

1:23.0

on the story?

1:24.0

You have to keep checking and keep checking and keep checking.

1:27.5

Even though it's been around a couple of years and we even signed up a while ago, Kat

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