Lisa Paradise: I feel like Tinder revolutionized dick pics,
because I had never seen one before,
and now I've seen countless.
Paige DiFiore: It's basically like, when you're
lonely and sad,
you scroll on your phone,
and there's just a bunch of people,
and you swipe right if they're cute,
and you swipe left if you're like, no, thank you.
Abby Tang: Tinder is a necessary evil.
Shannon Murphy: Is why ghosting was invented.
Ian Burke: I've probably had, like, five Tinder dates
in my life.
Three of them went well, one was just, like, boring,
and the other one was a catastrophe.
Tang: You think I'm gonna, like, go into a bar
and just tap someone on the shoulder
and talk to them for no reason?
It sounds bananas to me.
Alli Guerra: Being on Tinder gives you the opportunity
to meet people that you otherwise never would have met
in your life.
Tang: So, the first Tinder date I ever went on,
we went to Uptown Lounge in Chicago.
It's karaoke night.
He has signed us up for a grand finale.
Meat Loaf's "Paradise by the Dashboard Lights,"
a seven-minute song about losing your virginity
and being trapped in a marriage for the rest of your life.
I never saw him again.
Nate Lee: Airbnb is a home away from home.
Nich Carlson: When you wanna go to a place
and you wanna feel like you're a local
or you wanna feel like you're actually kind of living there
and pretend a little bit,
it's actually really nice to be staying in an Airbnb.
Guerra: Our generation, we don't own things anymore,
so I was just, like, thinking
about, like, my parents' generation,
they might've done, like, a time-share in Florida
or something like that.
With Airbnb, like, you can just get in and get out.
You have zero responsibility to the location itself.
Victoria Barranco: You're not locked in to having to have
reservations months and months in advance.
You can do things quite last-minute if you need to.
Guerra: I could go to, like, a yurt in, like, Yellowstone
versus just, like, thinking of lodging as a place
to, like, rest my head.
Lee: I haven't stayed in a hotel for, like,
almost two years now.
Carlson: It's really nice to stay in an Airbnb,
which will have a kitchen, and instead of having to stay
in a suite at a hotel, which could cost a lot more.
If you're gonna use Airbnb, don't go anywhere that doesn't
have, like, 20 reviews and have all the stars.
Just don't risk it.
Jade Tungul: My family was using Netflix around the time
that it was, like, still physical CDs.
Jacqui Frank: And I loved it when it was, like, just DVDs.
I was like: "This is great! I can have anything I want."
Tungul: Before that, it was Blockbuster.
Carlson: I miss Blockbuster. But that's OK.
Netflix is great.
Frank: And then, when they, like,
switched to the whole digital streaming format,
I remember having conversations that were like,
"Who's going to stay home all day and watch TV?"
Like, "TV happens at a certain time,
and that's when you watch it."
Carlson: It is amazing that Netflix went from, like,
one business to a totally different business.
Most things can't do that.
Like, companies usually can't pivot that well.
Nikki Torres: It's amazing. I love,
love, love, love Netflix.
And I get for free with my T-Mobile subscription.
Tang: Netflix comes in here, and it's like:
"I'm Netflix. I'm gonna offer you infinite content.
You can watch hours and hours
until you're on your deathbed."
Torres: There's something on there for literally everyone.
Frank: I truly think if you had told 2006 Jacqui
that she would spend Saturdays
watching Netflix until her butt hurt
that she wouldn't believe you.
Alex Appolonia: I spend way too much time on Instagram.
And I'll never get those minutes back.
Jason Sanchez: Instagram was awesome when it first came out
'cause it was basically what Facebook should be.
Which is, like, I just wanna see photos.
Shayanne Gal: Through sharing posts on Instagram,
I ended up meeting a bunch of friends
that ended up becoming my real-life friends.
Carlson: Like everyone else,
I put my best life on Instagram.
I use Instagram to just tell people
I have such a wonderful life.
And it's so awesome.
Aren't I great?
Gal: You can literally connect with anyone from anywhere
in the world based on a hashtag or a location tag.
Carlson: When I had my first kid...whoo!
Did I see my engagement on Instagram spike.
70 likes. 80. Sometimes 100 or more.
Gal: It's always the pressure of, like,
likes and followers, and I think that
that's becoming a big thing in general.
But at the same time,
I've been able to just meet all of these people
that share the same niche interest with me.
If you use it in that way, for networking
and kinda pursuing certain passions,
it's awesome.
Appolonia: I will never be an influencer,
and I'm totally OK with that.
There's a lot of pressure that I think comes with
being an influencer and keeping up with that.
And staying relevant and, you know, pushing out
content that the world wants to see.
Sanchez: I feel like Instagram is the app that I use first.
Like, when I open my phone up and I'm just sort of,
like, mindlessly like, "I gonna kill time."
Like, it's Instagram first.
Appolonia: If you're not on Instagram, some people are like,
are you even a real person?
Juliana Kaplan: I feel like Seamless is like:
"Oh, you are a 13-year-old child.
Would you like a milkshake and a grilled cheese
from this diner down the block?"
And I go, "Thank you, Seamless."
And then I order it.
Matt Stuart: Four to five times a week
I was ordering Seamless.
It got bad.
Torres: There's always great coupons on there.
I just got, like, a great meal that would have cost me,
like, $30 for, like, $10 the other day.
Stuart: I had to start tracking my budget
'cause I was ordering Seamless too much.
Appolonia: I think food-delivery apps
are just a mark of people's laziness.
Stuart: It was irresponsible, and I lived in this warehouse
with a not-optimal or superclean kitchen for cooking.
So Seamless was just a better option, really.
Torres: I live in a really kinda isolated area in the Bronx.
So it's kinda nice to have Seamless
'cause they kinda have, like, restaurants
that are willing to travel through that.
Kaplan: They must have a very good algorithm,
because they've definitely, like,
learned about, like, my weird food tastes.
And Seamless is like, "Would you like one plain bagel
with cream cheese and french fries?"
And I'm like, "Yes."
Appolonia: You can literally stay inside,
where you live, all day,
and not interact with anybody in the outside world.
Torres: Better than, you know, back then,
when you had to call personally and, like,
they would mess your order up,
and then you couldn't understand the person on the phone.
Even though it's not the healthier choice...
Appolonia: It's great if you're hungover and you just
don't want to leave your house and go get food.
Carlson: Slack...before Slack, people used
AOL Instant Messenger.
It wasn't that great.
Guerra: This is the first job that I've ever had
that's used Slack, and I honestly don't know
how I survived without Slack before.
Trisha Bonthu: It's just a nice way to interact
without, like, disturbing others
if you're, like, right there, too.
Or just, like, instantly talk to your manager
if you have a question or easily send files to someone,
because a lot of what we do
is sending video files or graphics.
Carlson: My favorite part of Slack?
It's the little palm tree
when you go on vacation.
No, my favorite part of Slack is that
I can get anybody anytime I need them.
Michelle Yan: Even as I'm going to work,
I'm checking Slack.
Even if someone is snoozing,
you can still send them a notification
if you really want to get their attention.
Yan: In that sense, it feels like I'm never not working.
Guerra: Even my, like, desk mate that I sit right next to,
I will Slack her first
before I will, like, tap her on the shoulder.
Yan: Don't talk to me, but just check your Slack.
Guerra: I get very upset when Slack is down.
Don't make me talk to people.
I'm just kidding.
Frank: What is Lyft? What is Uber?
It's basically taxis if I don't have to talk to anyone.
Carlson: Lyft and Uber have their downsides, of course,
but at the same time, they are incredible to use.
You show up at an airport, you show up, you know,
almost anywhere in the world at this point,
and you pull out a phone, and you say where you want to go,
and someone arrives and picks you up.
Lee: It might be just me, where it's at, like,
13 minutes, and then I'm like, "OK, great."
Put down the phone, pick it up, and it's like:
"Two minutes. It's here.
Come down. Where are you? We need you right now."
Frank: But, like, if you live in Manhattan,
you can, like, hail a cab in the street or whatever.
But if you lived in Brooklyn, you couldn't do that.
Having to call a taxi company and, like,
request a car to where you are is, like, infuriating.
Torres: They meet you where they need to meet you.
They know exactly where they're going.
They don't have to ask you for directions,
which is also really nice.
I have definitely stayed out late more, too.
Especially 'cause, you know, when you pull up the Uber app,
you can see what car you're gonna be in,
you can get information about the driver and all of that,
which you couldn't get with a taxi.
Frank: I did try to look up an Uber last night in the rain,
and it was $81.75.
And I've never seen it cost that much.
It cost less to go to the airport.
Carlson: Every once in a while, you'll, like,
get in a car and the person talking to you
will just be very charismatic
and you're so glad you got in the car with them.
Most times, they begin talking to you,
and you're like, "Let's not do this."
Frank: I have been in a ride-share
where someone's been like:
"Hey, where you going? How's your day?
What are you reading?"
And it's like, dude, obviously I, like,
do not want to be your friend.
Stuart: [sighs]
Twitter.
I think we all know what Twitter has done to the world.
Manny Ocbazghi: So, I use Twitter for a bunch of,
in a bunch of different ways.
One is comedy. Like, I like to crack jokes on there.
This Ancestry.com commercial
that I made fun of on Twitter,
that tweet went viral, and then
Seth Rogen followed me afterwards, which is pretty cool.
Burke: I think Twitter has kind of abridged
how we communicate with one another.
People expect to get their entire article
in 150, or 60, whatever it is, characters.
Or I think it went up now to, what, 280 or whatever.
Ocbazghi: It's also really easy to call politicians out.
And they will literally change their actions
based on a bad tweet.
So Twitter has a lot of power in that way.
Stuart: Twitter is dominated a lot, I think, by journalists
and the tech community and politicians.
And there's just a lot of fighting on there.
It's not a fun place.
Ocbazghi: It's kind of like asking,
"Is the world good or bad?" You know?
So, Twitter just houses so many people who are,
who can be good and who can be bad.
You feel a certain way about a bill
or a celebrity doing something.
Or, for example, that Sonic movie, if you just
really hate how something was designed
and you tweet about it
or engage with people about it,
you can really get something done.
Aylin Woodward: Twitch is an online platform in which
users can stream any type of video content.
So, whether that's
the livestream of their cross-country drive
or them playing video games for other people's enjoyment
or a livestream of, like, a sporting event.
Stuart: Who knew that people wanted to watch
other people playing video games?
I would never have guessed that.
Woodward: They have ways of interacting and, like,
displaying their emotions and their, like,
heart-rate levels.
So I think it's sort of just a way
of vicariously living through someone else.
And video games just seems to be a good medium for that.
William Antonelli: You know, the question a lot of people
ask is why would anyone care about watching
other people play video games?
And so, my older sister, she has two children.
All they do is watch Twitch, and they watch YouTube.
And so she comes to me all the time
and asks, you know, "Why is anyone interested in this?"
She's a massive football fan.
And so I ask, you know, "Why do you watch the Steelers?"
There's a lot of fun in playing a game for yourself.
There's also a tremendous amount of fun in
watching someone else play and seeing, how do they do it?
What do they do differently from you?
What do they do the same as you?
For so many streamers, a lot of it and, you know,
the draw is their personality.
Stuart: When I was a kid, I wanted to play the video game.
You ever go to a friend's house and you watch them play?
Like, that sucks!
You wanna play the game.
But that's changed.
Taryn Varricchio: Snapchat is a social platform where
you can send photos or videos,
and they don't last longer than 10 seconds
unless you put them on loop.
And you can upload "stories"
of what you're doing that day.
Jennifer Ortakales: I thought it was super creepy at first.
It was created for, like, sexting,
but without the, you know, parameters of
having to worry about it being deleted or not.
And then it kinda blew up as, like, a community
and everybody actually using it to communicate
with their friends and show them, like,
what they were eating and where they were walking.
Varricchio: I still think they have the best
location filters.
Tang: I only use Snapchat to play around with the filters
when I'm on the toilet.
I just take the picture, and I'm like,
funny, pooping rabbit.
Varricchio: And I also like it more sometimes than Instagram
because it's a smaller community of my friends.
Tungul: I do think that there is an addictive aspect
to it, though, when they introduced Snapstreaks.
Everybody felt obligated to be on their phone all the time,
and they just wanted to, like, keep that streak
and flex for some reason.
Varricchio: I care about Snapchat, 'cause it's dying,
I feel like, and I still like it.
My younger cousins tell me Snapchat is dead.
And I'm just like, I still use it.
Tungul: People say Snapchat is dying,
but I look on there every once in a while,
and, like, people are still updating their stories.
Carlson: I'm back to, like, 14 and 15 likes per photo.
But you know what?
The people who are seeing it
know that I am living an awesome life.