Today, Snapchat is second nature to many people. This app has become everyone's favorite form of social media. Although it can be used as a fun way to document your moments with friends, slowly this app can become extremely consuming. Snapchat may be ruining more things in our lives than just our smartphone's data bill.
1. You have severe FOMO (fear of missing out).
Snapchat only intensifies this uncomfortable feeling. When you have prior commitments and can't attend an event, Snapchat dramatically brings to your attention every moment you are missing. Because you can see through the eyes of all your friends, you easily forget there is no way you can be everywhere at once.
2. ...and maybe the FOMO is because you are aware you are actually missing out.
With Snapchat, FOMO takes a literal turn and it isn’t fear of missing out-- it is the awareness of the fact that you are actually missing out. Through a tiny phone screen you became aware of every social event you didn’t get invited to. Each time you see a Snapchat of people hanging out when you aren't invited, it is easy to mistakenly assume it is a cruel attempt to personally offend you.
3. You are unintentionally becoming more and more creepy because of all the weird facts you know about your Snapchat friends.
You bump into someone you are friends with on snapchat but aren't really friends with... you may think something like "wow he looks different when I am not seeing him in black and white... I wonder if all this time he intentionally lowered his voice when he snapchats."
5. You are heartbroken when you see your snapchat BFF Snapchatting another person.
OK, we're all guilty here: a four-day Snapchatting streak, that has to mean something! But then again, what if he is sending those snapchats to five other chicks?
6. You are up to date with people's lives you don't even care about.
You never even liked them in high school, and yet because of Snapchat you still know the exact moment they land for Christmas break and that they went straight to YogurtLand.
7. You forget most Snapchats are misinterpreted moments.
You may be convinced your ex-boyfriend is having the time of his life in Cabo, but truly he is with his three little siblings enduring forced family fun -- he just chooses to leave that out of his Snapchat stories.
8. Mass Snapchats have ruined at least one or two friendships.
You aren't aware that Sidney thinks you are just Snapchatting her. Shoot, you and Sidney aren't even good friends! Now she thinks that you have a creepy friend crush on her when in reality you send those to 15 people.
9. Your smartphone is glued to your side.
You would never go to a social event without your phone in desperate fear of missing an excellent Snapchat opportunity. You can't even set it down for a night in, what if a friend asks you to hang out and you never open their snapchat?
10. Your friends are angry with your Snapchat obsession but you don't even notice.
We all have that one friend who can't multitask. Therefore, they are literally shut down when taking selfies or watching stories.
11. But they go along with it because you can't be talked out of sending a selfie.
It would be too hypocritical to confront your Snapchat-obsessed pal about not being "present," so you resort to communicating through attempting to be a part of her Snapchat moment.
12. Your life is one bundle of awkward moments due to sending snapchats to the wrong people.
Nothing much worse than sending a horrifying selfie intended for your best friend to your crush.
13. Your self confidence goes down the drain with the slightest lighting issue.
You are eternally convinced your forehead is the size of the United States because of one selfie that went horribly wrong.
14. People know all about your life, yet they don't really care.
Your Snapchat story is consistently over 100 seconds a day. One day you post that you just met Zac Efron, expecting to get a tremendous response. Not a single person Snapchats you about it.
15. You are self-conscious of your introverted side.
No one wants to see a snapchat of you sitting on the couch.
16. On your good hair days, you subconsciously become disgustingly conceded
You feel you have to document this moment of beauty by sending snapchats for all to see. It is easily misinterpreted as "trying too hard."
17. Your worse moments are documented for many to see
Your best friends' Snapchat stories from your Saturday night out are known to be social suicide.
