Yesterday (January 27th) Snapchat introduced an innovative new feature called Discover in the latest version of their app — and quietly made everyone’s Best Friends list private, causing teens everywhere to flip their sh-t.
Noooo wtf, I don't like the new snapchat update. Not even gonna lie, I actually liked being nosey and looking at people's best friends😭
— ❁ ❁ ❁ ❁ (@mxzzx_) January 27, 2015
If you aren’t much of a Snapchatter, the Best Friends feature is simply a list of people who a user interacts with most frequently on the app. It’s similar to Myspace’s Top 8 friends, except users can’t control who shows up on their list. Best Friends lists were previously public, so that anyone in a user’s Snapchat contacts could see who they were sending snaps to. With this new upgrade, the list became private. Users can view their own Best Friends but not anyone else’s.
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— tina woods (@tinawoodsss) January 27, 2015
When Best Friends were public, nosy girlfriends and boyfriends could casually check up on who their bae is snapping. As you can imagine, this led to some tricky situations. People sometimes got jealous over who was (and wasn’t) on their significant other’s list. One guy even took his concern to the next level by Facebook messaging a dude who was Best Friends with his ex-girlfriend:
What's the point of Snapchat if you can't see their best friends anymore..
— meg (@meggotmoneyy) January 28, 2015
The snapchat update with no best friends is v distressing
— Erin Willerton (@erinwillerton) January 27, 2015
so now snapchat doesn't show your best friends...
aka theres no point in snapping hot boys anymore bc if people don't know what's the point
— karli (@EheartKC) January 27, 2015
I need snapchat best friends back bc I have gone through all of my other social media and I still have 18 minutes left in this class
— MK Green (@marykristinn) January 28, 2015
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