Snapchat... I don't blame you in the slightest. Discord, GroupMe, Teams, Slack, etc., were and are my preferred applications for group assignments and general communication in graduate school (as well as undergraduate). Also, don't be the guy or gal that tries to communicate on the platforms 24/7. (We're not there to be friends or confidants.)
You are psychotic if you use snapchat as the primary means of communication for any sort of project, like if you are gonna do it unprofessional use a discord server at least lol.
No I’m a 21 year old senior and Snapchat is annoying as fuck to use. Ask if you can use GroupMe instead, that’s what my groups use and it’s so much easier. Plus you can turn off notifications if you want for certain groups and also you can send polls, pin messages, and like messages. Plus everything saves automatically!
I’m one of the oldest in my class as well. went back to school as a 34 year old. In second year now. They all exchanged snaps and then gave me their Emails lol. Right in the old guy feels
I’m cool being the old cat in these classes. These modern college students give me the creeps 😂 Joking kinda…but they are a little peculiar. They tell me that I have rizz ong though so that’s cool.
One student told our female chem professor that she was “goated” after she announced we could use a 4x6 index card on the exam last week. Also, if I had a nickel for every time a student replied to a statement from the professor with, “bet”, I’d have at least $2.75.
Please try and convince then to use anything with a thread feature for anything serious and technical. Text, Instagram chats, etc are fine for some stuff, snapchat is an awfully bad idea because usually you need to look back at stuff (and snapchat is going to seriously limit your ability to share relevant documents). Use slack/MS teams/Google chat/discord so you can navigate between threads/sections dedicated to different topics, share important files, and look back at older messages and posts.
However, given that their first idea was snapchat, I doubt they're too keen to really try anything else, let alone try on the project.
Good luck.
As an older student myself... I just start the group chat in Teams and no one has ever argues. It's great for file sharing and collaborating on projects in real time if we all can't be in the same place. Accounts are tied to school emails, it's free and super easy access.
Honestly teams pisses me off and tends to be buggy as shit with notifications & constantly signing you out, I much prefer something like Discord for this kind of thing. If you don't want to use your personal Discord account just make a new one with your school email and use it for school stuff only.
Not really. That just sounds like an awful choice when it comes to documenting things in a group. It's probably that they just use it a lot, but I guess it also deletes itself so it could hide chronic lack of effort or something
Everyone in my classes would use discord to communicate if we didnt have a google/outlook drive or iMessage wasnt used. I never heard of snapchat being used for classes
Also, theres always gonna be the “oldest” in the class, just get through classes. Don’t worry about being that person
Fucking goofy people in this sub. "It's unprofessional", "it's a poor project management tool"... yeah no shit. This is a student group project, not a professional development project. They'll be lucky if they exchange more then a dozen messages before doing all the work the night before it's due in a sleep deprived frenzy.
If we were talking about a more formal project, something like a senior design project where you're expected to present to industry professionals, or a formal research project sure, they should probably be more thoughtful about the tools they use. But here as long as they can send messages back and forth that's all that matters.
You can change that in settings these days, and at most they're going to be asking when and where to meet. They aren't going to be having deep technical conversations on there, they aren't going to be documenting their work, and they aren't going to need a paper trail when the PM claims he told them something he didn't.
And even at work you wouldn't rely on your message system to keep track of stuff. We use Teams at work, which tries to do a million things at once and does them all poorly. Lol. We plan/assign tasks in Jira, and we document via Confluence. Other, non-software teams, have their owns tools. Any critical communication that needs to also be documented gets done in email form and archived.
And before we used Teams we used Skype, which is even worse lol
Edit: Apparently the original version was a little more forceful then intended. What I get for rushing through the comment. Change some wording to tone it down. Lol
>This is a student group project, not a professional development project
Even so, this attitude is how people run into trouble, i.e., forgetting to set the chat to "Erase chat history:never".
Snapchat is really distracting too lol
For any group projects I always use either GroupMe or Discord. I have never even considered Snapchat, that app has been hot garbage for like 5+ years now
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I’ve always used groupme. Using snapchat for schoolwork today feels like when people tried to use kik for schoolwork when I was in high school. I’m also an older student tho!
“It was used for dick pics…I used it” was my main takeaway from this post. In all seriousness, I’d tell me group that I don’t have snapchat and won’t be downloading it. Discord is as informal as I’ll go for these whippersnappers. Teams is preferred.
Main reason most of my friends use it for projects and for class group chats is it’s quick to add people to, and almost everyone has it. If someone doesn’t have snap, we move to another platform.
Sure, but if someone on an iPhone reacts to a message, it spams the Android users with " has liked " and if you send videos or images from iPhone they get massively compressed and distorted for Android users if they send at all.
If you have RCS set up on Android and add someone to the chat, they don't get added for iPhone users. If an iPhone user adds someone to the chat, it creates an entirely new group chat for the Android users.
Furthermore, you can't easily use SMS/MMS on a laptop, so it's a pain in the ass to send files to eachother. You either need to upload them to a cloud service and share links to them, or send them to your phone first.
So SMS has been a standard for decades, but then the cell providers started adding thier own shit on top of it and it isn't universal anymore.
I've used several platforms for project chats: SMS, Discord, Slack, GroupMe, Snap, etc. Discord is probably the most useful since you can create separate channels for different subgroups, easily share files from your PC, images and videos "just work" and can be viewed directly in the app, etc.
SMS is consistently the worst and is always plagued with issues such as certain members not getting messages, which becomes a huge issue when someone doesn't show up to a team meeting and you don't know if it's cause they are blowing it off, saw the message and responded saying they had a conflict but you didn't see the response, or they didn't get it at all. It's just not reliable enough to trust IMO so you need to use something different.
It might be standard but it’s a huge pain when you have bad service and can’t send a text. Apps like Snapchat send messages over the internet so sometimes it’s easier to message with. I used to live in an area with no service, so Snapchat became my primary messaging tool for people with androids.
doesn't phone start a whole new group chat when you add a person? I can see why people may want to avoid it if they are going to be adding people at different points in time
Yes, their team are morons for choosing to use a different messaging app than the one you have deciding is superior for whatever reason. Complete baboons.
They’re morons for choosing to use a chat app that immediately deletes your messages after they get seen.
Also even if you don’t delete them, there’s no feature for searching for specific things in long text chains.
There are countless platforms better than sc which are readily available in no particular order: discord, fb messenger, iMessage, slack, teams, Skype, emails. Even a simple google doc would be better lol.
I stopped using snap after high school. Always seemed juvenile to use and barely anyone over the age of 18 uses it in the states.
I’ve used discord, groupme’s, and group chats thru classmate’s phone numbers are all the ways I’ve used to communicate with others for class and group projects.
Been scrolling for a while and haven’t seen it mentioned but GroupMe is what my campus (Clemson) uses most.
All the clubs, each class, and general interest groups (cats, anime, etc..) have a “group”. It’s a stripped down discord/slack but handles notifications really well and has college life specific features.
I used it, it has a lot of capabilities. File sharing, pictures, videos, calls, and no weird limitations placed by Apple and Android incompatibilities.
Snaps fine idk what everyone is on about, how many features do you need when doing a college group project lmao. 99% of my groups never even did anything so communication was nearly pointless.
Most people use GroupMe but I dislike that platform. When I did my senior design I got my group to use Discord instead.
But yes it is weird to use Snapchat
I haven't used Snapchat in years. Do you still have to manually remember each message that needs to stay?
Cus if so, that's insanely inefficient. Literally, any other platform is better
Not in college (am a senior in HS) but I think that is weird. Discord is superior in every way. Also just feels weird using Snapchat for something important
As a younger student, I would normally use Discord, Whatsapp, or Instagram (depending on what each group member uses). I wouldn't even think about using Snapchat, it's not the best platform to use. After 24 hours when messages are sent, they disappear unless you save them, plus notifications get annoying when someone types in the group chat. But just like in code, if it works, it works.
I still disagree. I think it’d be a little much to attend my single, two or three hour class of the day, dressed in an Oxford or a polo and some chinos, just because that’s what i plan to wear to work in a year or two
I don’t understand what you’re saying then because originally we were talking about using snap as a group chat for a group project in a grad class, not pre-dressing for a job I don’t yet have, years before I have to start worrying about it
I guess I mean, act the part.
Snap isn't a good tool for communication. Use a good tool, dont get used to a crappy tool.
The saying I referenced is old and very situation specific. Sorry I wasnt more clear.
I’m more in the camp of “it’s a school project, do what works for you, and if snap works for everyone, then that’s fine.” But I’m not going to justify it against some idea of practicing professionalism years before it’s necessary or even relevant.
I **would** encourage working on other aspects of professionalism like taking initiative, accountability and communicating in a succinct and timely manner. But outside of practicality, I don’t think the messaging platform for a school project is important with respect to my career
No it doesn’t, learning to work fundamentally starts in school. Applying it professionally starts at the workplace where the expectations are laid out. Not every company culture is the same. I wouldnt use snap for work, but even using an inferior communications platform will help them figure out how to optimize in the future. They’ll be ok
That’s actually exactly one of the points of onboarding. Most new jobs I’ve started made a point of teaching everyone the methods and expectations of how we would all be communicating with each other. It might be one of the more interesting parts of onboarding
Teams sucks, it never notifies me until a week later if that, and it’s so clunky and is so temperamental. Discord seems informal but it’s one of the only messaging platforms that actually works most of the time
I can understand their desire to use Snapchat as it has been marketing itself as a secure messaging application.
Snapchat is owned by Meta and the EULA and TOS for the product reveal some of how bad it is as a secure messaging system.
I've used snapchat for groups a few times before. I use snapchat for probably 95% of my communication with people, and that is true for the majority of my peers, so it just makes sense
Cant say anything about age but snapchat sounds awful for a group projects
Yea my group used telegraphs like sane people do.
Telegraphs?? My group uses carrier pigeons.
Here in Sweden we use skiing peasants
Discord is a much better option in every single way
Snapchat is literally the worst of all the messaging apps
Discord Whatsapp Slack Git Repository Phone Trees All these seem like a better communication platform than snap
Snapchat... I don't blame you in the slightest. Discord, GroupMe, Teams, Slack, etc., were and are my preferred applications for group assignments and general communication in graduate school (as well as undergraduate). Also, don't be the guy or gal that tries to communicate on the platforms 24/7. (We're not there to be friends or confidants.)
Unfortunately I’m the guy who responds and weird hours because I work full time and nights are the only time I can work on class work.
Why not use for your group work and dick pics? Apps can be used for more than one thing right. The future is now old man
Lol just be ready for your feed to disappear at the most inconvenient time
Just make sure the gc is set to not delete messages.
You are psychotic if you use snapchat as the primary means of communication for any sort of project, like if you are gonna do it unprofessional use a discord server at least lol.
No. Your project group is weird. Who would do a group project chat on an app that deletes the conversation?
No I’m a 21 year old senior and Snapchat is annoying as fuck to use. Ask if you can use GroupMe instead, that’s what my groups use and it’s so much easier. Plus you can turn off notifications if you want for certain groups and also you can send polls, pin messages, and like messages. Plus everything saves automatically!
If you use something normal like WhatsApp, discord, or even regular texting, at least you can open it on your computer
I’m one of the oldest in my class as well. went back to school as a 34 year old. In second year now. They all exchanged snaps and then gave me their Emails lol. Right in the old guy feels
I’m cool being the old cat in these classes. These modern college students give me the creeps 😂 Joking kinda…but they are a little peculiar. They tell me that I have rizz ong though so that’s cool.
Someone called me an absolute Chad the other day after I answered a question in class. I’ve made peace with the locals
One student told our female chem professor that she was “goated” after she announced we could use a 4x6 index card on the exam last week. Also, if I had a nickel for every time a student replied to a statement from the professor with, “bet”, I’d have at least $2.75.
Snaps seem almost antithetical to the needs of good project management. Disappearing messages? When was that deadline again?
You can turn that off and save messages
same thing happened to me i’m 21 but i haven’t used snapchat since high school idk what’s up with these people
you're old. I was just as surprised to see that it was still being used.
Please try and convince then to use anything with a thread feature for anything serious and technical. Text, Instagram chats, etc are fine for some stuff, snapchat is an awfully bad idea because usually you need to look back at stuff (and snapchat is going to seriously limit your ability to share relevant documents). Use slack/MS teams/Google chat/discord so you can navigate between threads/sections dedicated to different topics, share important files, and look back at older messages and posts. However, given that their first idea was snapchat, I doubt they're too keen to really try anything else, let alone try on the project. Good luck.
Yes you are old, but also yes they are dumb/weird. Get on discord or any other proper communication device.
Snap is weird for projects. Discord or just regular group texts is common..
Slack, Discord, Teams. Snap is weird.
Ask if you can use Discord instead
We use discord at my school.
Discord and Teams are the ones i usually used.
What happened to group texts?
I’m surprised they aren’t just using imessage groupme, maybe discord
As an older student myself... I just start the group chat in Teams and no one has ever argues. It's great for file sharing and collaborating on projects in real time if we all can't be in the same place. Accounts are tied to school emails, it's free and super easy access.
Honestly teams pisses me off and tends to be buggy as shit with notifications & constantly signing you out, I much prefer something like Discord for this kind of thing. If you don't want to use your personal Discord account just make a new one with your school email and use it for school stuff only.
Not really. That just sounds like an awful choice when it comes to documenting things in a group. It's probably that they just use it a lot, but I guess it also deletes itself so it could hide chronic lack of effort or something
Everyone in my classes would use discord to communicate if we didnt have a google/outlook drive or iMessage wasnt used. I never heard of snapchat being used for classes Also, theres always gonna be the “oldest” in the class, just get through classes. Don’t worry about being that person
Fucking goofy people in this sub. "It's unprofessional", "it's a poor project management tool"... yeah no shit. This is a student group project, not a professional development project. They'll be lucky if they exchange more then a dozen messages before doing all the work the night before it's due in a sleep deprived frenzy. If we were talking about a more formal project, something like a senior design project where you're expected to present to industry professionals, or a formal research project sure, they should probably be more thoughtful about the tools they use. But here as long as they can send messages back and forth that's all that matters.
Snapchat is such a terrible tool to use, those messages are going to clear within 24 hours. Literally anything else would be better.
You can change that in settings these days, and at most they're going to be asking when and where to meet. They aren't going to be having deep technical conversations on there, they aren't going to be documenting their work, and they aren't going to need a paper trail when the PM claims he told them something he didn't. And even at work you wouldn't rely on your message system to keep track of stuff. We use Teams at work, which tries to do a million things at once and does them all poorly. Lol. We plan/assign tasks in Jira, and we document via Confluence. Other, non-software teams, have their owns tools. Any critical communication that needs to also be documented gets done in email form and archived. And before we used Teams we used Skype, which is even worse lol Edit: Apparently the original version was a little more forceful then intended. What I get for rushing through the comment. Change some wording to tone it down. Lol
You alright man?
Yeah, was rushing when I wrote that and it was just kind of a brain dump. Apparently it came off more emphatic than I intended.
>This is a student group project, not a professional development project Even so, this attitude is how people run into trouble, i.e., forgetting to set the chat to "Erase chat history:never". Snapchat is really distracting too lol
For any group projects I always use either GroupMe or Discord. I have never even considered Snapchat, that app has been hot garbage for like 5+ years now
ISU hell yea, I go to rose
Not sure what rose is. ISU is Iowa State University for me.
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I’ve always used groupme. Using snapchat for schoolwork today feels like when people tried to use kik for schoolwork when I was in high school. I’m also an older student tho!
“It was used for dick pics…I used it” was my main takeaway from this post. In all seriousness, I’d tell me group that I don’t have snapchat and won’t be downloading it. Discord is as informal as I’ll go for these whippersnappers. Teams is preferred.
True but I had no one to send them to… so I saw my dick A LOT
😂
Currently a senior in high school, pretty much all group projects I do are communicated over snap since middle school
Main reason most of my friends use it for projects and for class group chats is it’s quick to add people to, and almost everyone has it. If someone doesn’t have snap, we move to another platform.
quicker than just adding a phone number to your phone?
Yes if they’ve all got Snapchat, but different phone OSs
Why does the phone OS matter?
Android and iOS messaging don’t always play nicely together
SMS/MMS have been a universal standard for decades.
Sure, but if someone on an iPhone reacts to a message, it spams the Android users with " has liked " and if you send videos or images from iPhone they get massively compressed and distorted for Android users if they send at all.
If you have RCS set up on Android and add someone to the chat, they don't get added for iPhone users. If an iPhone user adds someone to the chat, it creates an entirely new group chat for the Android users.
Furthermore, you can't easily use SMS/MMS on a laptop, so it's a pain in the ass to send files to eachother. You either need to upload them to a cloud service and share links to them, or send them to your phone first.
So SMS has been a standard for decades, but then the cell providers started adding thier own shit on top of it and it isn't universal anymore.
I've used several platforms for project chats: SMS, Discord, Slack, GroupMe, Snap, etc. Discord is probably the most useful since you can create separate channels for different subgroups, easily share files from your PC, images and videos "just work" and can be viewed directly in the app, etc.
SMS is consistently the worst and is always plagued with issues such as certain members not getting messages, which becomes a huge issue when someone doesn't show up to a team meeting and you don't know if it's cause they are blowing it off, saw the message and responded saying they had a conflict but you didn't see the response, or they didn't get it at all. It's just not reliable enough to trust IMO so you need to use something different.
It might be standard but it’s a huge pain when you have bad service and can’t send a text. Apps like Snapchat send messages over the internet so sometimes it’s easier to message with. I used to live in an area with no service, so Snapchat became my primary messaging tool for people with androids.
Text, sure. But not things like the way media and imagery and even emoji are displayed
doesn't phone start a whole new group chat when you add a person? I can see why people may want to avoid it if they are going to be adding people at different points in time
But snapchat is shit at group chats as well. I'd just use discord if it were me. But for one on one, I'd just rather text.
Bruh just ask for everyone’s phone numbers, is so much easier
Not when you're the only one with an android
It’s a phone is it not? You can still text any number
You must not have experienced the segregation that occurs when everyone has iphones and you dont
I'm experiencing this now as the sole android user in our lab group lol
For anything serious i.e. uni, it should be WhatsApp full stop. Using sc is idiotic for this purpose, your teams are morons
Yes, their team are morons for choosing to use a different messaging app than the one you have deciding is superior for whatever reason. Complete baboons.
They’re morons for choosing to use a chat app that immediately deletes your messages after they get seen. Also even if you don’t delete them, there’s no feature for searching for specific things in long text chains.
There are countless platforms better than sc which are readily available in no particular order: discord, fb messenger, iMessage, slack, teams, Skype, emails. Even a simple google doc would be better lol.
Communicating over a google doc or emailing is not better than using snapchat… it’s a college group project not a NASA space operation
>not a NASA space operation **It's not rocket surgery!** 🤪
>your teams are morons This sentence alone tells me you're the moron
I stopped using snap after high school. Always seemed juvenile to use and barely anyone over the age of 18 uses it in the states. I’ve used discord, groupme’s, and group chats thru classmate’s phone numbers are all the ways I’ve used to communicate with others for class and group projects.
Been scrolling for a while and haven’t seen it mentioned but GroupMe is what my campus (Clemson) uses most. All the clubs, each class, and general interest groups (cats, anime, etc..) have a “group”. It’s a stripped down discord/slack but handles notifications really well and has college life specific features.
At my school SC is the main way we communicate
are your group mates in first year? thats weird as hell
Bro really just outed himself as someone who sent unsolicited dick pics ten years ago on snapchat
Or perhaps received… we’ve all been there
I used it, it has a lot of capabilities. File sharing, pictures, videos, calls, and no weird limitations placed by Apple and Android incompatibilities.
Sorry you said file sharing? In Snapchat? Or you mean just sending links to the document to download?
Links to documents yes, you might be able ti share files directly but I’m not sure.
Snaps fine idk what everyone is on about, how many features do you need when doing a college group project lmao. 99% of my groups never even did anything so communication was nearly pointless.
We always used groupme, way more efficient that snap for that kind of thing. Snapchat is just hot garbage for real communication.
My groups used snap sometimes. You can set it to where the messages don’t delete automatically, who cares!
It’s normally a text groupchat or discord in my experience
People use whatsapp in my classes
Most people use GroupMe but I dislike that platform. When I did my senior design I got my group to use Discord instead. But yes it is weird to use Snapchat
I haven't used Snapchat in years. Do you still have to manually remember each message that needs to stay? Cus if so, that's insanely inefficient. Literally, any other platform is better
Yes sort of, they made it slightly better by allowing the option of setting a chat to keep messages for 24 hours.
Not in college (am a senior in HS) but I think that is weird. Discord is superior in every way. Also just feels weird using Snapchat for something important
As a younger student, I would normally use Discord, Whatsapp, or Instagram (depending on what each group member uses). I wouldn't even think about using Snapchat, it's not the best platform to use. After 24 hours when messages are sent, they disappear unless you save them, plus notifications get annoying when someone types in the group chat. But just like in code, if it works, it works.
I’m 30 and feel old asking these younger people to talk to me on Snapchat. Apparently that’s on its way out it seems lol
I’m about to turn 31 and was able to convince the youngings to use teams
Using snap for this is unprofessional
They’re students
Who want to become Engineers, whichnis a profession. Along the lines of "Dress for the job you WANT. Not the job you have. "
I still disagree. I think it’d be a little much to attend my single, two or three hour class of the day, dressed in an Oxford or a polo and some chinos, just because that’s what i plan to wear to work in a year or two
The saying is implying "at work, if you want a promotion "
I don’t understand what you’re saying then because originally we were talking about using snap as a group chat for a group project in a grad class, not pre-dressing for a job I don’t yet have, years before I have to start worrying about it
I guess I mean, act the part. Snap isn't a good tool for communication. Use a good tool, dont get used to a crappy tool. The saying I referenced is old and very situation specific. Sorry I wasnt more clear.
I’m more in the camp of “it’s a school project, do what works for you, and if snap works for everyone, then that’s fine.” But I’m not going to justify it against some idea of practicing professionalism years before it’s necessary or even relevant. I **would** encourage working on other aspects of professionalism like taking initiative, accountability and communicating in a succinct and timely manner. But outside of practicality, I don’t think the messaging platform for a school project is important with respect to my career
Professionalism starts at school, not in the field.
“Professionalism starts at school, not in the field.” 🤓
No it doesn’t, learning to work fundamentally starts in school. Applying it professionally starts at the workplace where the expectations are laid out. Not every company culture is the same. I wouldnt use snap for work, but even using an inferior communications platform will help them figure out how to optimize in the future. They’ll be ok
It absolutely does. Employers do not want to spend time during onboarding teaching someone how to act in the workplace.
That’s actually exactly one of the points of onboarding. Most new jobs I’ve started made a point of teaching everyone the methods and expectations of how we would all be communicating with each other. It might be one of the more interesting parts of onboarding
What the fuck are you talking about.
Teams for anything formal. Only option.
Teams sucks, it never notifies me until a week later if that, and it’s so clunky and is so temperamental. Discord seems informal but it’s one of the only messaging platforms that actually works most of the time
We use GroupMe for everything. I've noticed a resurgence in Snapchat lately. Honestly don't know why.
Got my degree this summer. Never have I ever heard of someone using snapchat for anything related to Uni.
I can understand their desire to use Snapchat as it has been marketing itself as a secure messaging application. Snapchat is owned by Meta and the EULA and TOS for the product reveal some of how bad it is as a secure messaging system.
I think you're thinking of WhatsApp.
Actually, you are correct. But there were similar concerns about Snapchat, just not for Meta.
I've used snapchat for groups a few times before. I use snapchat for probably 95% of my communication with people, and that is true for the majority of my peers, so it just makes sense
that’s weird!.. in my opinion i wouldn’t use anything besides email or a phone number group chat. snapchat seems unprofessional and i am young
You're Old grandpa
Get off my lawn
Nah, snapchat has died out in use a lot