Snapchat: “ruining friendships one emoji at a time”
According to the company, the new Snapchat update will “change your life”.
More than 400 million messages are received on Snapchat every day, and according to the company, the newest update of the fifth-most popular app in the App Store will “change your life.”
Since July 2011, the popularity of Snapchat has grown rapidly. When Snapchat first started out, it was a basic app in which one would send pictures to their friends of whatever they wanted to.
Over the past four years, Snapchat has grown and changed many times, starting with “stories” in the summer of 2013, and progressing into one of the most-recent editions, Discover.
This is a feature on the app in which major corporations (including Cosmopolitan, Vice, CNN, ComedyCentral, Daily Mail,Snapchat, ESPN, Food Network, National Geographic, People, Yahoo! News, and Warner Music) can post their own version of a Snapchat story. The different posts, which include videos, photos, and text, are updated daily.
Many of the app’s users were disappointed to learn that with one of the recent updates, the company made it impossible for users to view their friends’ “Best Friends” list, which showed one’s most frequently communicated-with users. Now, however, Snapchat has released an update that aims to impress the users enough so they are no longer upset about the removal of “Best Friends.”
Many users were shocked to unlock their phone to view a Snapchat that they received and to find all sorts of new emojis on the side of the names of their friends. Nearly everybody seems to be confused by the new update and what the new emojis are supposed to symbolize. “No, they weren’t just our favorite ones,” the company explained.“They actually mean something super-important — they break down your whole squad.”
The Snapchat staff strategically used photos of Beyonce and her squad to explain the new addition:
Snapchat showed examples of the meanings of the emojis using photos of Beyonce.
After being asked how they feel about the Snapchat update, LHS students replied in various ways. Freshman Mae Fisher said that she “likes [the update] a lot better than before” and that “it sucked when they took away best friends.” Meanwhile, freshman Heather Wilson said that “[she has] 19 smirk faces. That’s sad.”
Social media users from all around have been taken off guard by the “emoji update.” Here are some of the humorous responses:
Twitter users respond to the new “emoji update”.
Twitter users respond to the new “emoji update”.
Twitter users respond to the new “emoji update”.
Twitter users respond to the new “emoji update”.
