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SnapChat Users Angry With New Update

Abraham - January 29, 2015
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.


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.


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:



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