Techcrunch reported on 22 June 2017, the day Snapchat rolled out its new Snap Map feature: “Snapchat’s next big feature wants to get you to meet up with friends in real life rather than just watching each other’s lives on your phones. Snap Map lets you share your current location, which appears to friends on a map and updates when you open Snapchat.”
The writer went on to explain how to use Snap Map.
When you open Snapchat once you have access to the feature, you can choose to share your location with all your friends, a few friends you select or you can disappear from the map at any time by going into Ghost Mode or not opening Snapchat for a few hours. Alternatively, location sharing is turned off by default and you can leave it that way to just lurk, watching what friends are up to…
Outside of the location-sharing element, Snap Map also gives users an alternative way to discover Story content beyond the well-worn Stories feed and the powerful but buried Story Search feature. Users can submit Snapchat Story posts to Our Story to be eligible for their content to appear to non-friends for around 24 hours. You also can see ‘heat’ colors on the Snap Map to see where lots of Snaps are being uploaded, which might indicate a concert or big event from which you’d want to explore Snap Stories.
Snap tells me that Snap Map is designed for enhancing connections between people and their closest friends — engagement that makes up nearly 60 percent of interactions on Snapchat according to data from Sparkler that was commissioned by Snap.
This is all well and good, but I don’t need to tell you how having “heat” appear where you’re located in the real world is a less-than-optimal setting for anyone working in the sex biz.
There was no real reporting as to how one turns off Snap Map (aka, “go to ghost”), so thank goodness the camiverse stepped up.
Per Avery Black:
⚠️ATTN MODELS⚠️
Here is how to hide your location after the new Snapchat update
Location is so accurate it allows viewers to see your street pic.twitter.com/ifZExB7c59— Avery Black (@AveryBlvck) June 22, 2017
Ginger Banks also offered some step-by-step instructions:
To make yourself invisible on the new snapchat map feature:
1) Go to the camera screen
2) Put two fingers on the screen and pinch together— Ginger Banks (@gingerbanks1) June 22, 2017
3) Set yourself as a ghost(so no one can see your exact location)
— Ginger Banks (@gingerbanks1) June 22, 2017
According to Techcrunch, these new ways of “enhancing connections” and surfacing content eventually could become a moneymaker for Snapchat by getting users to watch more snaps, but for now there aren’t any ads, etc., in Snap Map. So, monetization is possible. It’s coming, but it’s just not here now. Techcrunch also noted Snap Map is less likely to creep people out — which now makes me wonder about everything Techcrunch’s reviewers say, ever.
#creeper
Per Snapchat’s YouTube channel, here’s how to use Snap Map:
