
But with someone you don’t know very well at all, like a boy, you send a picture of your ponytail or something like that.” With your best friends, you send your whole face. With people who aren’t good friends, you just send a part of your face…a side view for example, making a silly face. “Well, it has to do with how close you are to a person-at least at my school. Her response was, “Oh, we’re not saying anything at all. What are the photos they’re sending? What are they saying to each other? That kind of thing. I went on to ask the contents of said Snapchats. But I sure don’t want my friends to think I’m mad at them. It’s kind of hard with homework and sports practices. “How long does that take you just to respond to your streaks?” I asked. Really? I can’t even call people back, let alone find the time to Snapchat 30 people a day just to make sure they know I like them. Here we go again, the pressures of social media. Basically, if you don’t have a streak going with someone, it means you don’t like them.” I know a girl who has a streak for 600 days with someone.

By her definition, a streak is when you snapchat each other every day for a given number of days. “I only have like 10 streaks going, but a lot of my friends have 30.”Ī middle school girl went on to describe a Snapchat “streak” to me in my office this week.
