[Ads-l] New sense of "story"

[Stanton McCandlish]

I detest those things. Not just for the "new memory" word salad, but
because it's always either making me sad by showing me someone who died, or
making me irritated by showing a particular ex I'd rather never see a pic
of again. I had to spend hours going through Google Photos to expunge
photos of the latter entirely, to stop being algo-spammed with pictures of
her every week.  I'm tempted to just spend a day recovering all the pics I
do want to keep from GP, then deleting everything off their server.  But
I'll have to undertake a similar sweep to stop Facebook from doing
essentially the same thing.

On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 10:54 AM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> Indeed. Still, not as creepy as those AI-generated curated “Memories” your
> phone provides you with, alerting you to the fact with the notification
> “You have a new memory”.
>
>
> LH
>
> > On Jul 2, 2024, at 12:59 PM, dave at wilton.net <dave at WILTON.NET> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Apologies if this has been covered here before, but I've just become
> cognizant (in that I knew it existed but didn't think of it as
> linguistically significant) of a relatively new (i.e., a little more than a
> decade old) sense of "story," that of a curated, often automatically
> curated by an algorithm or AI, ephemeral series of personal pictures and
> videos on a particular subject, theme, or time period.
> >
> > It got it's start with "Snapchat Stories" back in 2013:
> >
> > "Snapchat Launches Stories, 12-Hour Photo and Video Sharing."
> FierceMobileContent, 3 October 2013. ProQuest Trade Journal.
> >
> > "Snapchat is expanding beyond its signature here-and-gone media sharing
> philosophy with the introduction of Stories, a new timeline feature
> enabling users to compile photos and videos that may be viewed an unlimited
> number of times over a 24-hour period.
> >
> > "Snapchat enables users to capture images (a.k.a. "snaps") and clips
> with their smartphone, overlay a text message and transmit the image to
> friends. In the past, content was available to the recipient for a
> pre-determined viewing period between just one and 10 seconds, and then
> permanently deleted from both smartphones and from Snapchat's servers.
> Stories lends some permanence to the Snapchat experience."
> >
> > Instagram added a "stories" feature a couple of years later. Now my
> Android phone has started automatically generating "stories" from my cached
> photos and videos and setting them to cheesy music for me to view and post
> should I choose to do so. The word has gone from the name of a
> trademarkable feature on a specific product to generic noun for a whole
> class.
> >
> >
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