Snapchat: The Ultimate Guide to the Most Proper Messenger

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

I approached Snapchat 10 times. No kidding! Again and again I tried to understand what it is, why someone needs this strange application and, most importantly, why it is growing faster than other products and is worth 15 billion dollars. I decided to thoroughly understand this phenomenon, catch the wave and try to have fun. If millions can, then why can't I? And so it happened to me to write this huge guide, after reading which you have no chance not to understand. See you on Snapchat!;)

What is Snapchat (short version)

Snapchat is a messenger that runs on iOS and Android. Its key function is to self-destruct sent messages.

What is Snapchat (older version)

Snapchat is a Zen-style app. Here's what about Zen Wikipedia:

In a broad sense, Zen is a school of mystical contemplation.

Contemplation and the inability to keep is 100% about Snapchat! The basics here is that you send messages to friends, which self-destruct after viewing. You do not view them, you contemplate them in the same way as a Buddhist contemplates the reality around him, without trying to fix or change it. Snapchat messages are videos, photos, and text. The emphasis, of course, is on the video.

Photos and videos can be edited in every possible way, and they can only be vertical (I hear the howl of "experts" from YouTube). The sent content does not clog the phone's memory, is not stored without your knowledge, and does not remain in the recipient's phone.

Chatting on Snapchat can be either one-on-one or broadcast to all subscribers. There are no likes (they are not as a class), the number of subscribers, comments. This is a messenger first and foremost.

Snapchat has the most illogical interface you've ever seen. It is completely different, and almost no previous experience with VK, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Telegram, WhatsApp and Co. will help you. But users find Snapchat's interface to be the most user-friendly and enjoyable. As you fall in love with this app, you will feel the same way. I was convinced of this after a week of use. I'm not lying.

Not yet here:

• import of contacts;
• cross-posting;
• overload of followers from other networks;
• filters in the classical sense;
• sending photos and videos from the Camera Roll;
• user profiles;
• web parts and other integrations whatever;
• versions for Windows Phone.

And now about everything in order. Here's a schematic of everything that happens on Snapchat: navigation and window functions.

When you start the messenger, you always find yourself on the camera. If you follow the notification, you will find yourself in the corresponding section, bypassing the camera. The camera is the most powerful thing in Snapchat. Let's talk about it in detail.

Camera

The camera is the centerpiece of the app, and here you can take photos and videos to send to contacts or to fill your story. I decided to show the capabilities of the Snapchat camera, since it is rather difficult to convey it in words …

If you need to remove a sticker or text, then just do this:

The camera has the ability to immediately send the created "masterpiece" to one or several contacts from the list.

History

Most users fill their story. History is like a feed on any social network. It contains your photos and videos stored for 24 hours and then deleted … This is what the history of my contacts looks like:

The main thing is the "pizza" on the avatars. It shows the time after which the user's story will be destroyed. Roughly speaking, each message lasts only a day. As soon as 24 hours have passed for each individual message, the entire history will be destroyed.

Browsing history is the coolest.:) You can watch videos and pictures at the time specified by the author during posting, or you can simply touch the screen and go to the next item. This is how it looks:

As for your story, you can decompose it into plots (clicking on three dots) or download everything in one fell swoop into the Camera Roll. If you have several videos and photos there, then all of them will be saved as separate files. You can click on the peephole with a number next to the story elements and see exactly who viewed your work.

Of course, you cannot save stories and elements of the histories of your contacts.

Having made a double tap on a video or photo, you can respond to the user. This will not be a comment, but a personal message. Remember that Snapchat is primarily a messenger?

Discover, or Content 3.0

Snapchat not only has user-generated content, but also a corral of select media. There are BuzzFeed, National Geographic, People, Vice and many more. You can read them arbitrarily. These are the same daily stories, but made much cooler than custom kalyak-malyak. It seems like it's some kind of special style of new media, and it looks pretty cool. You manage to look at a bunch of everything in a matter of seconds, even if all this is still rubbish.:)

That is, you open your favorite media (well, except for Lifehacker, of course), study their rendered article covers and move between them with swipes or simple screen touches. Under the covers can be text articles or videos, as in the example above from BuzzFeed. You can send the cover you like to your contact, having previously drawn something of your own. You cannot publish content from Discover to your story. Because this is your story! Please try yourselves!

Posts

The main rule of messages is that they are deleted immediately after reading! If you opened a video from a friend, but it was noisy and you didn't hear anything, then you won't hear anything else. It's the same with the text. By the way, the highest form of recognition on Snapchat is a screenshot of your message, which you will learn about from the alert. This is a form of like here.

But there is one life hack: if you hold your finger on the message, then it is protected and does not disappear until you free it from your protection.

But the most interesting thing is the icons next to the names of contacts in the chat section. They really mean something, but guessing what exactly is completely unrealistic.

Upload status icons

- message without sound.

- message with sound.

- text message.

Opening status icons

- a friend opened a message without sound.

- a friend opened a message with sound.

- a friend opened a text message.

- a friend opened a message with money (US only).

Receiving status icons

- you have received one or more messages without sound.

- you have received one or more messages with sound.

- you have received one or more text messages.

View status icons

- the sent message without sound has been viewed.

- the sent message with sound has been viewed.

- the text message has been viewed.

- a message of any kind is waiting for its turn and can be deleted.

Screenshot icons

- the screenshot was taken from your message with sound.

- the screenshot was taken from your message without sound.

- the screenshot was taken from a text message.

Profile, add and remove friends

You can find your profile from the camera mode by simply swiping it down.

You can add me as a friend by simply scanning the code with your Snapchat camera. Try it, it works really cool. Point the camera, hold your finger on the code - and bam, we're friends!

Removing friends is easy too. Find your friend's name in your contact list or in the list of stories, hold your finger on it, and then click on the gear in the window that appears and delete.

conclusions

So what do we have in the bottom line? Who needs to try the app and why is it better than everything we have now?

1. Getting started is easy. There are no followers, no likes and no comments. Here you are, just registered an account, and some Instagram kitty is no different for the one who adds you. Everything is decided by creative and high-quality content. Try harder and you will have your own audience. You can measure it by viewing your stories that only you can see. None of the numbers stop people from taking you seriously at the first stage.
2. Security. Messages are indeed deleted immediately after reading. Nobody will find in your phone and in your Camera Roll your yesterday's not very successful or frankly creepy photos, as is the case with almost all modern instant messengers. If someone takes a screenshot of the screen, then you will know about it and you can ask the person not to fumble "content" further. Sending drunk SMS to Snapchat is much safer!
3. Speed. Of course, my phone is far from the oldest, and Snapchat works on it without delay. But it works exactly the same on $ 100 Android smartphones. It's not uncommon for modern instant messengers, but here are videos and all those whistles … And yet Snapchat flies!
4. Zen. See the very beginning if you missed it.

So why don't you give Snapchat a shot? What if you like it? And it will be safer!

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