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The new Snapchat update, explained

Disclaimer: Your addiction to Snapchat is about to get 10x worse. 

Source: Snapchat

With the new update, Spapchat introduces Chat 2.0, where you can chat with your homies in literally any way possible! Send pictures, leave them a voice message, send videos or emojis. There's so many possibilities! 

For starters, you can now straight-up call people through Snapchat. Which is cool. And then you can send 200 new "stickers" through chat, all of which are hella cute (here are some of my favorites)!

Also, the new hourglass symbol that sometimes appears beside some of your friend's names means that you're about to lose your snap streak with them, and have a limited amount of time to snap them in order to keep the streak! In case you're STILL confused about all the other ones (it took me freaking forever to figure it out) here is a website explaining them!

Source: Snapchat

 One other thing. The new update includes a change while viewing stories — they flip through automatically, cutting down how many times you have to tap the screen, but also making you watch all of them in one sitting. Which I don't like. But hey, ya win some ya lose some!

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