Along with the recent realizations I've had about our phone hindering precious time spent during meals, I also believe that Snapchat has become way too overrated than it should be. I've noticed that people put a great deal of emphasis and importance on having and maintaining streaks on the app. When I tell people that I have only two streaks with friends from home (which I often end up breaking at around the 100 mark), people are surprised, which surprises me. A lot of the people I know have 600-day streaks (and other crazy number streaks) with all of their friends.
When were streaks ever a measure of all relationships?
Since Snapchat first came out, I never really was attracted to the idea of sending photos to each other and having it disappear. I didn't buy into the idea and didn't really see the point of the entire app. But in the end, I ended up getting the app and connecting with people. There were people who asked me to do streaks with them, which I did (later kept breaking them and they gave up trying to keep the streak with me). The biggest reason, I kept breaking them was because it scared me how much weight was put on streaks.
On social media, I would see how angry and frustrated people became when someone loses the streak that they kept up for 500 days or whatever. I understand that it's quite impressive to keep that up every day for over 100 days (which is kinda my maximum), but I wonder, "So, what?" Can't people stay and be friends without streaks becoming proof for it?
Having so many streaks also seem like an extremely boring past time for me. I see my sister take a picture of the ceiling and write, "GM," and send that to about fifty people. Some of the people that she keeps a streak with aren't even close with. I've heard of so many stories of people giving the passwords to their Snapchat accounts to other people when they are out in a place without wifi. People go to extreme measures to keep their Snap streaks.
If you do have streaks with people, I don't think you should just break them, but I don't believe that you should put the great amount of weight and importance on these streaks as people do today. It's not a measure of how deep your friendship is or how far you may be in a relationship. So if you break a streak or someone breaks a streak, don't get so worked up about it. Your relationship will still be there without it.
