There is no doubt that our generation was the first generation to grow up at the hands of the latest and greatest technology. Since our RAZR phones in middle school to college with Apple laptops, tablets and iPhones, we have literally had the world at our fingertips. Although technology is great for keeping in touch with long distance friends and family, some apps actually hinder our ability to live in a world that isn't behind our phone screens—the main perpetrator being Snapchat.

I am an active user of Snapchat, and while it is great to see who out of all of your friends can send the ugliest photo, it also has an underlying and dark message that most users don't realize.

The loss of top Snapchat friends was devastating. How will I know who is hooking up with who? Who is my ex snapping? Who is my current boyfriend snapping? How many instances can you think of fights breaking out over Snapchat top friends? Now think about how many times someone has ended up in your top friends that you really didn't send pictures to all that often. Think about who was in your top friends and how you literally had zero romantic interest in them whatsoever. We put so much unnecessary emphasis on Snapchat best friends. Then with the loss of top friends, the world was sent into a frantic tizzy about not knowing how to know, or rather assume, the latest juicy hookup or couple. What ever happened to honesty? To asking your "thing" if he was talking to anyone else? To trust your significant other and know that him and Snapchat friend xoKels143 were just friends from home? Snapchat basically sent out the message; if you weren't in the top, your relationship wasn't legit.

I used to love watching Snapchat stories to see where the party was at and know what people were doing. It gave me a destination to go to or at least made me kind of feel like I was there. But with everyone constantly "snapping" every moment of their life, it's hard not to feel left out.

Your two friends go to grab coffee at the last second and they put up a snap. You see it and automatically think, "Why didn't they invite me?"

Snapchat has made it so that you constantly know when you did not get the invite. Or that your life isn't as cool as someone else's. It is hard not to feel like you are always missing out when people broadcast every second of every day on their "My Story."

You watch as friend groups go skiing together or venture over to Florida or go out to a really fun dinner. Meanwhile, you're just sitting in your room, tapping your finger across your phone, envying all those out doing something.

But you could be doing something. You could be doing anything. You could be seeing the Eiffel Tower for the first time, but I have a feeling that the first thing you do before taking in the view is snap a pic to set to your "My Story." The first time you see the Eiffel Tower, you see it through a lens, snapping a photo. How wrong is that?

Not to mention, "Snapchatting" when you are drunk. Why on earth did anyone tell me I should not put up that pointless video of me yelling in the basement of some bar that my friend was being "legit crazy" in?

Instead of bringing us together, Snapchat has often made me feel isolated and alone. It makes me feel unworthy of an invite or that my life is boring. If you took a harder look, you would think the same thing, too.

So take a break from Snapchat and snap back into reality. You are worthy of the invite. Your life is full of adventure. Take in everything the world has to offer, but with your eyes, not a lens.