Everything you need to know about the social media you're too old to use | Jess Zimmerman

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For instance, Vine, the app that lets you take and post six-second videos, isn’t all that unfamiliar once you get used to it. Think of it this way: if YouTube is the Norton Anthology of Literature, Vine is a book of Edward Lear limericks. Like the limericks, Vine videos have an extremely restricted form (six seconds, an infinite loop) and a very specific sensibility that’s informed by the restrictions (the joke – and it’s usually a joke – has to play out in seconds and improve or at least become transcendently absurd through repetition). Vine has become a weird tiny art form with its own conventions and trends and a robust community, none of which you will probably be able to keep up with if you aren’t already, but at least we can appreciate the occasional Buzzfeed roundup of Vines. It is also for videos of my brother-in-law’s cat, who is amazing. (If you are my age or older and do not own an amazing cat, though, do not try to learn to make good Vines at this late stage

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