In a sense, the Snapstreak has become a tool that evaluates teens’ friendships. Eve said that friends bother her about keeping up a streak. Users also get a Snapchat score, which is roughly the sum total of all snaps sent and received, and you can also see how many people viewed each snap in your story.īut of the dozen or so teens INSIDER heard from, the most important number - by far - is your Snapstreak with someone else. Snapstreaks aren’t the only number Snapchat offers.

“At the same time I would want to have a streak with my friend, I guess because that means that you’re in semi-constant communication with them.” “I wouldn’t want to have a Snapchat streak with someone I didn’t know,” Eve, a freshman at The New School, told INSIDER (over Facebook, not Snapchat). If you’re friends with someone, you want that reflected in a high Snapstreak. And when it’s about to end, Snapchat warns you with an hourglass emoji.īecause teenagers use Snapchat so much, Snapstreaks are emerging as a way of quantifying a friendship. When your Snapstreak starts, a fire emoji shows up next to the number, and other emojis are added based on the length of the conversation. So if you and someone else sent snaps to each other for 226 consecutive days, the 226 number next to that person’s name is that conversation’s Snapstreak. It’s a number that appears next to a friend’s name, and it indicates how many consecutive days you two have sent snaps to each other. One of the ways that Snapchat keeps its users engaged is by assigning each conversation a Snapstreak. It’s a place to post pictures and videos, but teens mainly use it as a communication tool. Snapchat is the most popular platform among teenagers.

When it comes to maintaining friendships, teens don’t text. *The following is excerpted from an online article posted on Business Insider.

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