Take A Break From Snapchat Instead Of Complaining About It
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Take A Break From Snapchat Instead Of Complaining About It

Let go of your precious streaks that have no real meaning anyways.

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Take A Break From Snapchat Instead Of Complaining About It
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If you have a Snapchat account and you haven't been living under a rock for the past few weeks, you have either heard of or personally been victimized by the new Snapchat update. There are a number of ways that one can respond to this tragedy that has come upon us.

First, you can tweet about it.Or you could retweet that fake tweet that 1 million people thought might convince Team Snapchat to take the update away. Unfortunately, your mad Twitter skills probably aren't going to make a difference with this issue.

1. You could get over it, and adjust to the update.

Our generation figures out new technology all the time. Snapchat updates throw us for a loop every time they happen, but every time we get it figured out. Remember when you could see who people's top 3 best friends were? Friendships were crushed, hearts were broken, people thought they could analyze your whole life based off that information.

2. You could delete Snapchat.

Whether you choose to delete the account or just delete the app from your phone for a time is up to you. Take a Snapchat hiatus! Let go of your precious streaks that have no real meaning anyway. If you have gotten to the point where you literally send a random photo with the word "streak" on it, it's time for a change. Snapchat should help you be connected to friends. Keeping a streak doesn't mean much if you aren't actually conversing with someone or learning about their life.

3. Go on your phone and check out how much data, storage, and time that you spend on Snapchat.

It'll probably blow you away. This applies to all social media really. We complain that we don't have enough hours in a day to get anything done, but we waste numerous hours staring at our phone screens.

4. I'm not saying that social media is the worst thing ever.

I'm saying that we consume too much of it. We are addicted to checking our notifications, and we forget to invest and spend time with people who are right in front of us. My challenge for you is to delete your Snapchat for a month, and see how it changes your phone usage. In a month, I won't blame you for redownloading the app.

I've done it. But each time, I start to genuinely appreciate the "living in the moment" aspect of taking a snap break. Just because you go somewhere or do something, doesn't mean all your followers have to know about it. Your memories are for you alone.

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