Here’s How Teens Are Finding Strangers to Sext on Snapchat
New dating apps are being launched everyday, but one of the latest popular dating apps, called Yellow, is sure to be a teen parent’s worst nightmare.
The app, which is not quite a dating app, but not exactly innocent either, has the tagline “make friends on Snapchat.”
Alright, who actually wants to make new friends on Snapchat besides creepy dudes from Instagram? Snapchat is to communicate with people that you already know, to show them how much fun your Saturday night is or how much you love tacos, and maybe to send an occasional sexy selfie to bae.
But if you have any teens in your life, you know that Snapchat is their social media of choice. They don’t use Snapchat just to showcase their morning Starbucks order, they use Snapchat to communicate with legit everyone in their lives. They obsess over Snapchat “streaks” and use all their data on pointless pictures of their feet.
Yellow allows users to make friends with strangers on Snapchat, which means more Snapchat streaks for teens and more ways to entertain themselves when they’re in English class or studying for SATs or whatever.
It also means that they can send nudes to strangers instead of the popular dude at their high school that’ll probably share it with all his friends. For a teen, this seems like a good thing because they’re meeting cute guys from other schools and are going to seem super cool to all their friends…but it’s obvi not a great idea because they’re sending nudes to total randos.
Also let’s not forget that Snapchat encourages stalkers. What if your new Snapchat “friend” becomes a stalker and starts showing up at the mall you hang out at on Friday nights because he sees it in your story?
What’s creepier? That the app already has been downloaded by 100,000 people, which means teens are running wild and snapping their lives away. Great.
We can’t wait to see all the news coverage this gets from old people publications.
