This appeal to the morality of empathy is actually not relevant to either the discussion or your comment.<p>&gt;This kind of empathy with others will make you much more effective when you&#x27;re creating for people who are not like you.<p>What you are describing is the action of gaining knowledge of other&#x27;s likes&#x2F;dislikes. This can be done entirely robotically i.e. completely without emotion. Knowing about others is only a <i>part</i> of empathy. The other part is actually exercising this emotion in your actions, choices, and interactions with other people.<p>I don&#x27;t think not understanding snapchat (and not wanting to understand snapchat) is a display of a lack of empathy. There are many things that each of us <i>choose</i> not to spend time learning about. That is just a basic facet of life.<p>And, I find it extremely disingenuous to start blaming people of being &quot;bad human beings&quot; because they do not care to entertain themselves with a currently popular social application. Like really? Is this what we have lowered our discussion standards too?<p>This jump to appealing to some sort of moral high-ground to establish your point is logically fallacious at best. Especially when morality&#x2F;ethics plays zero part in people&#x27;s personal views&#x2F;choices in regards to a topic e.g. this topic.<p>&gt;make an effort to talk to people outside of your normal social circles once in a while.<p>You do realize that the majority of Snapchat&#x27;s users are most likely using it to participate in THEIR social circles, right? To each their own. It&#x27;s perfectly fine to NOT be in some social circles.<p>I am seriously amused that the top comment is an appeal to ethical standards in regards to people&#x27;s personal opinions about an app. Very amused! :D