Jasmin Abarca Conversation 3

My summary: This story is called, “Snapchat Wants You to Post, and It’s Willing to Pay Millions” by Taylor Lorenz, the author who published this on January 15, 2021, about 3 years ago, explains the story about social media and how Snapchat has become popular from upgrades and being in lead and alike from TikTok. She explains the perspective from a TikTok star, Cam Casey back in November 2020 who has 7 million followers and being 19. He shares his story about how he became viral for uploading a video for a science experience in the results of a Coca-Cola bottle experiment in Snapchat. Snapchat has a new feature called Spotlight along with “users could share short-form videos” which is compared to Tiktok. (2) It has developed to grab people’s attention for this update they heard from. He made small fortunes as for people who also use SnapChat as the company wants to give out over $1 million USD everyday for joining. The company wanted to have the idea for their app as “being a messaging platform, and offered internet talent no way to earn money or grow their following.” Back in 2017, they started Discover to display public stories and started to verify creators for “large followings while not being fully designed into source and show viral content for populace. Now having Spotlight, it creates changes, according to Snapchat. It felt inspired to and other apps even inspired from Tiktok to be upgraded. TikTok has been popular since 2020 from seeing viral videos and creators being popular as similar to SnapChat. Months went by based on the Spotlight, Casey and SnapChat creator, Mike Metzler, being 33 and social analytics researcher in Houston, explains that content creators who come from different backgrounds in different platforms, puts together into a group chat to discuss their boost up and have a group in compared from the hype house in TikTok but instead in SnapChat. They want to find strategies and see content they want to see. They want to be there and “help each other out.” (28) It ends as having a job from the industry and making money helps creators to have a living.

My response: I don’t use social media much as I used to because the events I had to go through and keep my life personal. I have Instagram but I don’t use it as much as I wanted to because I see different things that are usual but instead I see things that I can’t ever understand. But there’s trolling which sometimes can be funny but yeah. Social media apps has been a distraction for me. Mostly, I use YouTube everyday because I am used to the fact I watch many videos and how it can be similar to Instagram. Both apps can like, comment, share, and even create shorts with music. Me as an audience watches both video and shorts. Me being in the app shows how I can watch any normal videos/ shorts and usual video from TV shows, music, etc. Reading the article shows how a person has a life changed based on videos they created from any platform but mostly Snapchat for Spotlight. Social media has become our main resource daily routine every single day. The communication has changed a lot throughout the years and how it felt compared to back then before technology started to create. For me, social media isn’t a job because I don’t get paid for it and jobs use in person, not online, unless it has to real with real important job, but it is what it is and it never can changed, as mentioned before, time goes fly and what stays the same is jobs and social media still around for both younger and older people.