Tech turned on its head: 'Dislike' button in Facebook, pay Snapchat $1 to defuse self-destructing sexy selfies Snapchat is about to get a bit less self-destructive with the introduction of a new pay-to-replay option on received pics. The auto-deleting image-sharing service said Tuesday that those who were willing to splash a bit of coin would be able to re-play images they had previously viewed. Once limited to a single "replay" of a …
RI've now abandoned Faecebook, but was never interested in the like thing. Same with the upvote/downvote on this Register forum, strictly for the under 12s.
A better feature to have would be an option to switch the vote buttons off at a user level so you don't have them on screen.
In my opinion, if somebody is going to speak their mind then they shouldn't be thinking about popularity. Some might be constrained from saying what they want to because of that particularly juvenile feature of comment forums.
I never upvote or downvote, I never look at the counts of votes. I'm over 12 years old.
Criticism is good but just a number is neither helpful nor constructive. You well know that idiots downvote stuff if it contains a truth or fact they don't like or see their argument destroyed.
>In my opinion, if somebody is going to speak their mind then they shouldn't be thinking about popularity. Some might be constrained from saying what they want to because of that particularly juvenile feature of comment forums.
There are plenty of times when I've said something I thought contentious, waited for the downvotes, and then found I got a clean sheet of up votes. Other times I've trolled and laughed at every downvote.
The ones I worry about are the ones that don't get any votes. They're comments nobody found to have any value.
I'm not so sure. A downvote might be given for any reason, and no clue is given as to what that the reason might be (considered analysis? kneejerk reaction? evidence? predjudice?).
Personally, I wouldn't dignify a negative response with the label "Criticism" unless it were a reply stating the reasons for the disagreement.
I don't use it myself but I have idiocy-inflicted family known as teenagers, and I know a lot of em send those pics thinking it's gonna be a 1 time showing kind of thing (no matter how hard I try to explain the concept of screen grab).
This pay model sounds pretty messed up and seems like it would put a lot of users off.
Then again I shouldn't complain (in the rain..woo..sorry, drunk), because now I won't have that horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach that one of these idiots I call family will be pulled up on child porn charges for being..well, idiots
"This pay model sounds pretty messed up and seems like it would put a lot of users off."
That sounds like a good thing to me.
But yeah, Snapchat are fudging the entire selling point of the service, which is that your photos are meant to disappear- except that some horny goit can override your wishes because he paid a dollar to them.
Personally, if I was that determined (#), I'd use one of the Snapchat capture programs that have already been around for ages and get a permanent copy without paying some contrived nickel-and-diming fee to Snapchat.
And if Snapchat's undermine-the-long-term-future-of-their-service-for-short-term-gain draws people's attention to the fact that, no, it's not the once-only service it claims, and yes, people *can* get a permanent copy of you flashing your bits at the camera, so don't believe otherwise... then they've probably done them a service.
(#) Disclaimer: I don't actually use Snapchat. At all.
Ok, for your average person believing that snapchat doesn't keep your pictures then surely this is a reality check? I also suspect a lot of people will be getting quite worried about this development.
Dislike button - Who uses facebook? It's a pretentious tw*t palace of f*ckwits who either want to tell you the weather (I have a f*cking window and I do venture outside) or how sad, happy or mad they are usually involving relationships/pets/food/children/family (That looks nice did you cook it yourself from a book you sad b*stard / You split up from x that's a shame because x has nobbed half the workplace / Your new baby just farted? good luck changing that nappy / Your cat looks so comfortable it's a shame you just woke the poor f*cker up with the flash / Your great-gran's uncle died, I'm sorry to hear that have you thought about going on the x-factor? / It's raining? Thanks for clearing that up for me now I can tell Vitalstatistix the sky isn't falling / A b*stard BMW driver didn't indicate and your furious? I'm really in a state of shock though I recommend the Oxford dictionary and the section entitled "Indicate" ). The problem is I don't give a f*ck, there's a reason I lost touch after leaving school, moving jobs or moving house and that is because they are people I chose not to keep in touch with. I have family abroad and I don't need them on facebook because I use video chat (not f*cking skype). I also don't want my life and everything in it recorded on some computer to be analysed by the government to pigeonhole me into some standard definition of a person, I'm opinionated and maybe some of my opinions won't agree with government and this is all I have to say about facebook.
Re: Facebook
Perhaps for some. For me it's a convenient way to stay in touch with actual friends that I actually like and I actually hang out with in person. My grandma used to send out a typed letter detailing the last 3 months happenings 4 times a year to a hundred -odd people who she kept in touch with but generally didn't see in person since they lived across the globe. Last I checked no-one was bitching about her being a sad tw*t because she liked to tell people what's going on. I fail to see how that's so different to me and my friends keeping in touch albeit with shorter but more regular communications.
Being able to filter out irrelevant information is pretty much the core skill required to use the internet effectively. Sounds like you need some practice. Or Valium.
You're probably right and that is a good user case example although email would suffice however it's the one's you don't expect to be idiots that all of a sudden start acting like attention seeking whores and realistically I don't want to have to mess about configuring something that is going to slurp up all my private information anyway (information I didn't even put on facebook). Last I checked a long time ago it had just become a like fest with the news feed filled with people vying for the most likes and any company/product/book or film I stupidly clicked like filling it with crap. Each to their own.
Zuckerberg said that while developers were considering new buttons, any effort to add options to the Like menu would only be considered if they would not be used to criticize or attack others.
"That's not socially very valuable or good for the community, Our paying customers won't like being criticised." Zuckerberg said at the time
FTFY
I've looked at facebook but I just don't get it. I was sitting outside a cafe and admired the patio furniture, it had a facebook link stamped on it. Following the link I arrived at lots of images but no indication of their (local) address or phone number, just some timey-wimey line thing. WTF am I supposed to do, scroll back to the beginning of time? No sale!
If snapchat served up a naked pic of a minor surely they'd be in the sh*t for child pornography. I can understand they had a free pass when it was meant to be a temp picture and they had no idea what was being sent, but now they have no excuse.
Reg where's that popcorn icon, because this thing is gonna blow.
RE: Serving up....
I think you'll be munching popcorn with no entertainment. It'll be the poster/sender in the sh*t, not snapsh*t
More than likely, some will be adolescents sending pics of themselves to other adolescents, and then brought to account despite being below the age society typically deems one fully responsible for their actions, and for distributing/possesion of naked pics of someone under the age of consent, with the 'consenter' being them.
Polis keep assuring us they deal with these 'special' cases 'specially' but 'sorry' tales keep occuring.
It's not something I'd munch popcorn to.
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