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The BFF

We all have those three ‘best friends’ on Snapchat who receive a minute-to-minute update about our lives. Whether it’s a selfie of our ugly flared nostrils or a snap of the dog’s poop — nothing is off limits with these BFFs.

THE SEXTER

Snapchat is mostly about sexting. Statutory warning: It’s not completely safe because a screenshot is always a possibility so cap the time limit (the minimum is one second).

The foodie

This person’s snap story never has any people in it. There’s food and there’s lots of it. We’re talking breakfast, lunch, evening munches, and dinner. The “foodie” constantly feels the need to tell the world what goes into his/her belly.

The leech

The leech friend sucks the energy out of us. There was a time when he/she would send us ‘Good morning’ texts and Facebook messages. Now we have to tolerate this friend on Snapchat — bombarded with his annoying selfies and completely unrelated captions.

The ‘REAlLy’ awkward

Incessantly Snapchatting this friend (mostly from the opposite sex) is okay since thinking up a maximum of 31 characters barely needs any effort. But come face-to-face and we feel like we’re in a Bollywood movie pre-arranged marriage girl-meets-boy scenario.

the Picasso

This friend is the reason why Snapchat has a pencil drawn on the upper right hand corner. ‘Picasso reincarnated’ creates doodle masterpieces. His/her doodles are such a great combo of humour and art that you don’t mind even if it’s for 140 seconds.

The IDLE one

This friend just sits around in our Snapchat profile. He’s on our friend list but we have never Snapchatted. Maybe he’s a crush we’re too nervous to confront, or just someone we have too much ego to Snapchat first. However, when this friend views our snap stories, the butterflies in our stomach do start flying around!

The social butterfly

This social vagabond jumps from one party to another. A different set of friends feature in her story each day, and we can’t help but wonder whether she goes home at all. There’s no denying, however, that her exciting life makes us all a wee bit jealous.

the ex

We all have that ex we still have on our Snapchat, and every snap we send him/her equals a 100 trials because the ex needs to know how gorgeous we are!

The 24x7 hottie

It’s okay if you occasionally show off your glam party wear, or share a hot, after-shower wet-hair selfie. But when each and every one of your snap stories has perfect make-up and that 15-degree head tilt, this 24x7 hottie desperately needs classes in versatile posing and in being... real.

The drunkie-junkie

After a few beers, this person attaches himself to Snapchat like the Overly Attached Girlfriend. The next thing we know, our profile is flooded with drunken pictures, hearty confessions and all those things that the drunkie-junkie is going to regret the next morning.

Do

Keep the slight PDA going.

Continue to use it for birthday wishes and achievement announcement stories for your buddies.

Put up embarrassing videos of your friends. We all love seeing our friends make fools of themselves sometimes.

Snap stories with witty captions. It’s good to break away from the same old “with my favs” caption.

Upload an occasional snap story with the family. It’s a nice thing to do.

DON’T

Take screen shots. Don’t be one of those creeps who do.

Keep snap stories for as long as 150 seconds. By the time we reach the 10th second, we’re already losing interest.

Have serious conversations. Snapchat is not the place for that. Limit its use to the “What’s up?” and “Let’s meet today?”

Send bad quality videos like you partying in a nightclub. All we can see and hear is shaky hints of light and faint EDM music in the background. You may be having a ball, we certainly aren’t.

What we love about Snapchat

1. You can see each other while chatting.

2. You can take screenshots of images.

3. You can ruin images by making funny drawings.

4. You can check out others’ best friends list and see who’s snap-chatting whom the most.

5. You can send videos that others can’t save.

Eesha Moitra

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