6th Reader's Blog: Compare and Contrast Pt. 2

Text messaging vs Snapchat

1.
- Text messaging is sending phrases/sentences/emojis to another person or group over mobile phones.
- Snapchat is a form of social media that is used heavily for communication over pictures/videos sent to other people or groups. Provides news articles, journals, and general threads of what is going on throughout the world. People have "stories" which convey what they do on a daily basis and the snaps disappear immediately or within 24 hours.

2.
Similarities
- ways to contact/have conversations with others
- can send pictures/videos
- use of emojis
- group chats
- fulfills main purposes of having mobile devices (instant notifications from friends/family)
Differences

- snapchat is more of a social media (with Stories, news articles, current events)

- snapchat based off of pictures/videos

- texting you can send gifs/memes

- texting is more direct/noticeable (with noise and how its portrayed on phones)

- snapchat blends in more with notifications b/c of its style

- texts stay forever on screen

- snapchat disappears after short period

- texting usually used for more instant/direct conversations while snapchat is usually used for a more laid back way of communicating/portraying yourself

3.

- Text messaging is significant because it is one of the main and most direct ways of communicating other than phone calls. Calling on phones has decreased significantly as most of the population now primarily uses texting.

- Snapchat is significant especially among middle aged people and below who use it more frequently than texting. Since you can have conversations over pictures/media and send things to as many people as you would like at once. Also there is a chat option that generally replaces texting. The media page of Snapchat also makes it used for intellectual purposes such as news and current events.

4. These are important because they have taken the shape of how most of us communicate with each other in either way. It allows us to customize the way in which we speak to each other and convey ourselves in new ways. These are more direct ways of communicating but with other additions such as pictures and emojis. Allows for increased ease and use of communication between people.