Girlfriends love it. Your friend with benefits uses it. The fifth-year douchebag likes to be sketchy about it. But no one admits to actually checking it.
I’m talking about popular app Snapchat’s “Best Friends” feature.
All it takes is one tap, one load, one scroll and one second to come across this ostensibly irrelevant information.
No one knows quite knows what Snapchat “best friends” mean, but we’re all secretly paying attention.
According to Snapchat’s website, a “magical Snapchat friendship algorithm” is used to determine one’s top three Snapchatters – a decision that has the potential to catch someone cheating or create a storm of suspicion. Regardless of its capabilities, having access to see everyone’s top-three Snapchatters is a game changer.
So it’s no surprise everyone lost their shit when Snapchat released an update. Women all over the nation lost their collective shit. Their boyfriends rejoiced. And so it goes.
Via: USA Today
But it isn’t just those in a relationship who use Snapchat “Best Friends” to their advantage.
People have even begun to refer to it as if it is some foundation for legitimate knowledge, offering a “Oh, I don’t know if they’re hooking up, but I did see they’re best friends on Snapchat.” Whether this means anything is up to those involved, which is precisely what makes knowing people’s Top 3′s so frustrating and enticing. It is so vague that it only prompts jumping to conclusions — some wrong and others spot-on – yet we can’t help but let it influence us.
Because you may or may not be sitting alone as you read this, you don’t have to admit to noticing the recent absence of “Best Friends” on Snapchat. But I know you noticed. It’s okay.
It was a sunny Wednesday when Snapchat’s newest update gave us an innovative way to see news using the “Discover” feature. How nice it is to finally be able to read Cosmopolitan and check ESPN all in the same app!
But for some, the recent update caused a different type of excitement.
It was on this same Wednesday afternoon that boyfriends and girlfriends alike felt a sudden spike of heat behind their necks as they snooped through top Snapchatters. Where the three usernames that usually displayed their significant other’s best friends once read had now been replaced by a blatant – almost mocking – “No Best Friends ;( ”.
Via: Snapchat Best Friends
“But how will I stalk?” you may have wondered. “How will I know if he’s snapping that slut from back home?”
or “Is she sending selfies to her highschool ex?”
After downloading the update, it became clear that the worst was true: Snapchat “Best Friends” was no longer a tool paranoid people could use to check up on their people of interest.
Across campus, as girls deliberated their plans for the night, an appalled seasoned stalker alerted her group text of the sudden change in Snapchat. One worried that the boy she met at Penny Wine would now two-time Snap her, while a few were just pissed that their carefully constructed tops were now put to waste.
And it was later that same Wednesday back at the law library that the fifth-year douchebag readjusted his reading glasses to send a mass snap to seven lucky ladies with zero repercussions.
The fifth-year douchebag finally felt liberated. (6/7 opened. 1 response.)
As the excitement now begins to settle, jealous boyfriends and curious ex’s are getting used to a life with no Snapchat “Best Friends.” The temptation that looms over us to ever-so-innocently snoop through top friends is no longer nagging under our finger tips.
Via: Inkling News
And just as we finally begin to rest easy in blissful ignorance, our few moments of peace and denial are interrupted.
Snapchat “Best Friends” will return.
In a statement made by Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel to ABC, the Snapchat “Best Friends” feature will be coming back in a new and improved update.
So until then, enjoy not knowing too much about everyone else. Be thankful you can snap that boy you made out with in eighth grade, with no judgment passed. And try not to overthink Snapchat “Best Friends.”
After all, it shouldn’t be much longer until you sneaky kids are accountable for your selfies again.
Feature photo courtesy of: Social Gadget News
