Snapchat: Personal Narrative

Snapchat has a new feature that lets you see where your friends and family are. You can track people that have been friended; you can also track these people in real time, so you know where they are.”’We’ve built a whole new way to explore the world! See what’s happening, find your friends, and get inspired to go on an adventure!’ said the company in a blog post announcing the update.’” This has raised some red flags for safety and privacy of others. This could be very dangerous because it can increase bullying and more signs of people stalking. More often than not your mom or your best friends are going to know where you are. Even though this has raised concerns, still people like the fact that people can see where they are every moment of every day. …show more content…
Other people in their community. As long as those people are friended. There is a setting called “Ghost Mode”, this lets your “bitmoji”, as they're called, show up on the map. Sometimes the bitmoji is called the actimoji. The reason that they are called this is that sometimes it shows the action that you are doing when the application is opened. For instance, when the map feature was first introduced, I didn’t know about ghost mode. As a user of the app, I know that Snapchat sends you a message about new features, but the map, I didn’t get notified. Let alone that I didn't know about the feature, I didn't know how to turn ghost mode