The popular chatting app, Snapchat, which scrapped its Best Friends Feature earlier thereby depriving its users the chance of seeing which people on their contacts list exchange snaps most often with others thereon, has now come up with a more private way of identifying best friends.
Snapchat introduced a new feature called Friend Emoji’s on Monday. There are six emojis at present which designate all Snapchat relationships and associations. There is the heart (people you exchange snaps with most often), smile (people with whom you exchange snaps frequently), grimace (two of you snap the same person regularly), smirk (people who snap you frequently though you don’t snap them too often), sunglasses (two of you snap a few of the same people regularly) and finally, fire for consecutive snaps to each other. The last emoji will also have a number against it showing how many days you’ve snapped each other straight.
Unlike the Best Friends feature which was public and visible to everyone and often led to misunderstandings or soured relationships, these half a dozen emojis are private. These will be visible only to the users, with no one else being able to sneak into them.
In addition to this, there is another section called “Needs Love”, which tells you that these are the friends whom you used to snap often, but not anymore and they need love.
The older feature was withdrawn in January after users complained of other people on their lists using the platform to snoop into their personal lives. It would also tell if a partner had been cheating or if a supposed best friend had not been much of a best friend in real life.
So, all those people who hated Snapchat earlier for announcing their intimacy or the lack of it from rooftops will now be seen heading to it again. This time in total privacy.
