On the camera page, pinch the screen as if you were trying to zoom out.

The actionmojis appear on the map when a user shares their location and disappear when they’ve been offline for several hours. The map also incorporates 'actionmojis', a new type of personalized avatar, such as a car or an aeroplane, that automatically appears, showing the user’s location, time of day or speed of travel. The App gives you the option to share your location, either with all the friends on your list, a select group of friends, or nobody, by selecting ‘ghost mode’. The map, which you can zoom in or out of, will show where friends were when they were last active on the App, while if there’s a major event or breaking news taking place that lots of people are documenting on Snapchat, a patch of colour will appear on the map identifying the hotspot. Snap Map allows you to open up a map that will show you where your friends who are active on SnapChat are located.

Their new innovation has been likened to the Marauder's map from Harry Potter, and the map of New York in Gossip girl, because basically, it's a map that tells you where other people - or at least active SnapChat friends of yours - currently are.

In attempting to move forward once more, they have both impressing younger users and scaring parents in equal measure.

However, SnapChat's latest feature has caused a bit of a stir. Whether it's a fad or not, it has all the intensity of one, and in order to keep up with technology that is consistently advancing, it is constantly changing and reinventing itself, for fear of being another social media platform left behind. It is exclusively mobile-based, which even a few years ago would have seemed a disadvantage, and can make even Facebook and Twitter seem comparatively old.

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