Why Snapchat Is The New Dating App – Her Campus

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at PSU chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus. For years, people have been falling in love through dating apps. Apps like Tinder and Hinge turned love into a swipe-based game, where you could easily match with someone online. But recently, Gen Z and millennials seem to be rejecting dating apps and turning to a different app: Snapchat.  When you think of Snapchat, you don’t typically think of it as a dating app. While your Snapchat profile reveals things like your birthday, astrology sign and snap score, that’s typically all the information it limits you to. Even Instagram profiles give you more information than Snapchat. The app is simply used for messaging and is built around disappearing videos and photos. Yet, college and high school students are forming romantic relationships through it.   Unfortunately, as women, we no longer live in a “rom-com” world where a man will approach you and ask you for your number. Connections are rarely made in person anymore, which is why we have resorted to apps like Snapchat. If a man is bold enough to ask you for a form of contact, he isn’t asking for your number; he is asking for your Snap. If you have a man’s number, that likely means your relationship has been taken to the next
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