Teenage Tips

SNAPCHAT ♡

Snapchat is definitely my favourite form of social media! It's the best and quickest way to connect with friends and to post videos of your everyday life! To me, things like Facebook and Instagram are too professional, like I rarely post pictures on my main Instagram because most of my photo's to me aren't "good enough" to be posted. Whereas on snapchat, I literally snap everything funny or interesting that happens in my everyday life right then and there and post it!! The features I love about snapchat is:

-stories: because they only last for 24 hours and you can post as many things as you want and it's like this little video of what's going on in your life at that moment it's so cute to me

-saved (memories): I absolutely love this section as it's like a second camera roll on my phone. It's where I save my snapchat photos that aren't good enough to be on my camera roll and it doesn't waste as much storage as the normal iPhone camera roll!

-streaks: i am in love with this feature because it forces my friends to send me snaps everyday and to look at my snaps everyday!! I also have the power to write a caption that people can reply to and immediately start conversations will people!!! It's so fun to get closer to a person on snapchat as well as in person, it gives relationships different aspects and dynamics, but make sure that you have more contact in person!!

I have some tips on what kind of photos to post and what not to do on snapchat as well!! kind of like a do's and dont's kind of thing!!!

Some suggestions of what kind of things to post on your story include:

-when you're hanging out with friends

-when you're hanging out with family

-group selfies

-funny things that happen at school

-selfies with your friends/family

-food you've bought or made

-new products you've just bought (e.g makeup)

-full body photos before you go out

-full body photos with friends

-videos/photos of your pets, babies and elderly

-scenery/ places you go

-outside the plane saying where you're going

Some things I wouldn't post on my story include:

-a black screen with the time

-unnecessarily blurry photos unless it's cool 

-bad quality photos

-the same photo you sent your streaks

-saying good morning or goodnight (that's what streaks are for)

-saying bad things about people

-saying that you're upset, angry, depressed, etc (you can talk about this stuff to your friends, don't give people that image of you)

-videos that you wouldn't want your parents to see (because there's a chance they will see it, trust me on that one)

Some things to streak include:

-mirror selfies

-mirror selfies with the flash

-funny snapchats of you and friends/family

-good morning/good night posts

-streaks if you're way too tired to take a photo

-ugly selfies (because it shouldn't matter as much as these people should be your friends)

-selfies

-saying someone chat

-asking questions

-talking about something funny that happened to you or something interesting

-talking about being excited for something

-videos/movies you are about to watch

-your pets

-you miming the lyrics to songs

-you having fun!!

And that's it!! Thank you for reading and I hope you got something out of that or ideas of what to post, although I know we all are experts when it comes to social media!! Your social media should be a positive thing that shows the best sides of you to other people! Don't post depressing things, because that doesn't give you a bad image, and you will just feel bad after posting it about what people will think of you!!!!

Until next time

Stay Pretty

Alana xoxoxoxo