Snapchat, what a fun way to send silly pictures and updates of where and what you’re doing to your best friends. Snapchat is used for sending pictures or videos and text that disappear after viewing but in reality it’s taking over how people view themselves and ruins friendships. Does snapchat change people or even love?
Think about life before Snapchat… How confident were those around? Think about how people didn’t worry about what they looked like. How did life feel? Now that over 900 million people in the world use snapchat, society has grown to change. It can be hard to tell that one has been impacted by snapchat. The more the app is used the easier it is to forget who one is, forget how to act, change how one acts. It starts off exciting adding your closer friends then it ends up being the whole school then strangers. All these people now have the chance to send or save anything and eventually the phone becomes the new mirror. And instead of just yourself looking back there’s others commenting or sending a new picture back of themselves, trying to send things to a boy or popular girl not getting anything back and only to be left on read and then, looking back at that mirror and the person looking back is not who looked back many times before. And after every smiling photo that took around 5 retakes is the smiling fading instantly after sending. The person is now insecure without realizing, talking without words is rare but never impossible. Mental health is affected by snapchat.
Friends, best friends and snap friends. Who matters the most? Instantly best friend sounds like the right option but in reality snap friends get more knowledge, activity and information than those friends who don’t have snapchat. Plans made in snapchat instead of messages, news or drama spreading around snapchat and then the ones who don’t have snapchat are slowly forgotten and start to lose the feeling of having friends, being left out, and the feeling of not being important. The person once known like the back of a hand is now what feels like a stranger again.
Snapchat has ruined love. Sending a snap is not love, playing mind games is not love, sharing locations is not love, addiction, snapping other girls or guys, disappearing messages, streaks, virtual interactions are all not love. Many people are found through snapchat and it’s love at first snap, that is not how love works. Love is when people make eye contact in a room full of people not in a phone full of followers. Love is getting butterflies to hold someone’s hand for the first time, not sending a full face picture for the first time. Talking while laughing and smiling and getting to know each other is love. Imagine being in a healthy relationship only to find your partner snapping their high school sweetheart again. Bring back true love! Everyone always wishes to bring trends back from the 80s or 2000s like the old days. Well how about we bring back “can I have your number” and let’s forget “can I have your snap.”
