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Give a more customized look to your Snapchat stories by creating a new private story. Check steps here. Snapchat is a continuously growing social media platform. It is popular amongst people of all age groups across the world. Snapchat lets you share snaps with your Snapchat friends in a photo or video format. You can also post your snaps in your Snapchat stories and let your friends get a glimpse of your day. Some people do not like to share everything they are doing with all of the friend's list on Snapchat, the platform offers an option to create a new private story.Snapchat is a famous social media platform in which chats disappear as soon as you view them. We tend to have different social groups for different platforms. Here is how to create a new private story group on your Snapchat account.How to create a new private story on Snapchat: Step 1: Open Snapchat and make sure it is updated to the latest version.Step 2: Click on your profile photo on the left top corner beside the search bar.Step 3: Click on ‘+ New Story’ Step 5: It will show you 2 options New private story- Only you can…

A face painted in green, blue and orange stares back at you from a Snapchat camera, like a collage representing the myriad colours of Holi, celebrated with gusto in India, particularly its North.At another time, one can even grow cat or rabbit ears and whiskers with large eyes. Why, you can even get the colour of the iris changed to blue or golden. A piece of psychedelic art?Nope. These are, in lens creation parlance, filters (static overlays over the camera) or lenses. In other words, augmented reality (AR) animations with the use of 3D modeling, which can be created using tools offered by Snapchat’s Lens Studio or Facebook and Instagram’s Spark AR Studio.That itself would be creative hype, but the joy is magnified in the knowledge that many of these lenses are being created by college going kids from India’s rural regions and are accessed by people across the world.Moneycontrol spoke to four such lens creators, who in addition to being popular campus figures, are also raking in the moolah by working with firms in India and overseas.Take for instance 20-year-old Thakur Vivek Singh, an official lens creator for Snapchat. A native of Madhya Pradesh, he is currently pursuing his final…

Nickelodeon has linked up with Snapchat to tap into fan culture and bring outfits featuring some of its classic characters to Snap’s Bitmoji avatars. Snapchatters and Bitmoji users will be able to choose from nine curated outfits, featuring references to SpongeBob SquarePants, Rugrats, Garfield, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which can all be customised further. Users will see their chosen Nickelodeon designs across Snapchat and Bitmoji, including in chat and games, on Snap Map, in lenses, and in personalised content like Bitmoji Stories. “This partnership combines two brands that embody positivity, humour and fun at the heart of everything they do, and we’re excited to launch a collection that caters to our Gen Z and millennial audiences who grew up with these nostalgic characters – and that are still very much loved to this day,” said John Imah, Head of Games & Entertainment Partnerships at Snap Inc. The collaboration with Nickelodeon builds on similar partnerships Snapchat has entered into in the past half-year or so, including with Ralph Lauren and Levi’s. In August, Snap launched its ‘Mix and Match’ Bitmoji feature alongside Ralph Lauren. And it followed this up in December by bringing denim to Bitmoji via Levi’s. In both…

9:00 AM PST 3/11/2021 by Natalie Jarvey Snap, Inc. 'The Best Snaps Show' hosted by Salice Rose and Brent Rivera will showcase posts from Spotlight and Snap Maps. Snapchat wants to shine a light on some of its best user-generated posts. The mobile app is launching a new original series to showcase content from its Spotlight and Snap Map public features. The Best Snaps Show drops on Snapchat's Discover platform on March 14 and will run for eight episodes, with new episodes dropping weekly. Creators Salice Rose and Brent Rivera are hosting the show, which is produced by Portal A. "We're leveraging content made from everyday Snapchatters to make the show," says Snap head of talent partnerships Jim Shepherd, explaining that it allows people to "see this fun, authentic side of our global community." Snapchat launched Spotlight in November to give users on its platform a more public forum to showcase their snaps. The TikTok-like feature has taken off. Snapchat said in February that Spotlight has more than 100 million monthly active users. The three-year-old Snap Maps feature, which allows users to see public posts by location, has over 250 million users per month. With 175,000 daily video submissions for…

Announcement from Emerging News Products Director Chris Meighan and Snapchat Discover Editor John Taylor:We are excited to announce that Nina Zafar is joining Emerging News Products as a multiplatform editor on the Stories team.Nina comes to us from Features, where she has been an editorial aide working with the pop culture team. In this role, she has done everything from producing Date Lab to running social media accounts. She also has written for the TV listings column, Real Estate’s Where We Live feature and the Reliable Source blog. In her new role on the Stories team, she will curate, edit and reimagine The Post’s most timely, topical and engaging journalism for Instagram Stories and Snapchat’s Happening Now and Discover surfaces.Before coming to The Post in 2019, Nina worked at the Smithsonian Channel, Bumble and Al Jazeera. She is a graduate of George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs and has a master’s degree in journalism and public affairs from American University. She lives on the H Street NE corridor with her sister and their cats, Phoebe and Misha. She enjoys baking, fitness and sipping old-fashioneds at new restaurants.Please join us in congratulating Nina. Her first day is March 29.

The face tracking of cats and dogs are probably my favorite AR innovations that have come to Snapchat Lenses over the past few years.What can I say, I enjoy taking photos and videos of my shorkie Lucy and my cat Dorian with goofy effects anchored on their cute little mugs. So, this week, we're highlighting five AR experiences you can share with your own furry friends, so I can get Lucy and Dorian some work. (Unfortunately, Dorian conveniently slept through most of the...Snapshoot.)Two notes before we jump in: First, any of these Lenses work with a cat or a dog, regardless of its title. Second, if you don't have a cat or a dog, you can try these out as well, though you may get a "looking for cat or dog" message that you can ignore.Don't Miss: Next Reality's 30 People to Watch in Augmented Reality for 2020 Enter a Weird World with Your CatOur first example may interest those who enjoy modern animation, pop art, and points in between.Cat Beam by Lens creator Aoepng projects thick, blocky laser beams from the eyes of cats or dogs in the camera view and anchors a UFO over their heads. Images via…

DEAR ABBY: A few weeks ago, my 14-year-old sister snuck out and had sex with a boy she met on Snapchat. I know this because my distraught mother decided to tell me. My sister lied to my parents repeatedly about it, but later, when they went through her phone, they found explicit images that a girl her age should never have. Furthermore, after they confiscated her phone, she acquired a new one from a friend and continues to message boys through Snapchat. She continues to lie to my parents when they ask her if she’s communicating with anyone. She has been hanging around a toxic group of girls at school, and she’s very impressionable. She isn’t a bad person, but all this lying has left me confused and upset. What can I do to help her? — HER WORRIED BROTHER IN GEORGIA DEAR BROTHER: The age of consent in Georgia is 16. Do your parents know the identity and age of the person your sister met on Snapchat? The inappropriate pictures your parents discovered on her phone could be considered child pornography, and there are laws against it. It’s very important that your sister understand how dangerous what she has…

March 9, 2021 9:48 AM Monica Petruzzelli Posted: March 9, 2021 9:48 AM Updated: March 9, 2021 10:19 AM Kayden McMahon/FacebookWEST RICHLAND, Wash. – The Tri-City Regional SWAT Team helped arrest a young man in West Richland who allegedly attacked a 19-year-old on Monday after an argument on social media. According to Captain Tom Grego with the West Richland Police Department, around 9:20 a.m on Monday, police were notified about the assault near Timberline and Teak Avenue. Investigators learned the victim had visited the suspect, identified as Kayden McMahon, at his home in order to “confront him over statements made on Snapchat.” When the homeowner told the victim to leave and he started walking away, McMahon allegedly followed him. That’s when police say the situation turned violent. “The victim was then assaulted by Kayden resulting in serious injuries. At one point during the incident the victim attempted to leave the scene but crashed his vehicle,” said Captain Grego in a statement to the press. The victim was taken to the hospital and treated for a stab wound and head injuries. Later on Monday night, just before 10 p.m., officers with the West Richland Police Department and the Tri-City Regional SWAT…

WENATCHEE — Local police are seeking charges against an Everett man who allegedly advertised drugs for sale on Snapchat, and tried to peddle them in the Wenatchee area. Jhon Hegel Jackson, 22, is suspected of using the social media app to offer cocaine, psilocybin mushrooms and illicit painkillers for sale. He allegedly told Snapchat contacts that he was on his way to Wenatchee, and to place their orders if they were in the area. Court records show a Wenatchee police detective arranged to buy drugs in a sting operation, and arrested Jackson on Friday when he arrived at the agreed meeting place in Wenatchee. Police say he admitted to the crime, and was transporting cocaine, psilocybin, cannabis edibles and leaf, and Percocet and Fentanyl tablets, as well as a stolen pistol. Jackson remained jailed Tuesday morning in the Chelan County Regional Justice Center. Criminal charges have yet to be filed.

Snapchat lenses (Snap) Snap is hosting a special Lens Studio workshop today in India on the occasion of International Women’s Day. Snapchat’s parent company has partnered with Lean In India, Navjyoti India Foundation and Digital Empowerment Foundation for this workshop.The Women’s Day Lens Studio workshop is scheduled for 7 pm later today, and those interested can register for the event through this link. It will be streamed on the Lens Studio Youtube channel. The workshop aims to help introduce young women in India to Augmented Reality (AR) using Snap’s Lens Studio desktop app. Through this, users will be able to create and design their own AR experiences. Snap is also giving participants two weeks to submit their designs based on the theme ‘From Dreams to Success’, and win some prizes.The workshop will be hosted by Snap’s Senior Lens Studio Community Specialist, Kaitlyn Benitez-Strine and Juhi Bhatnagar who leads Strategy and Business Development for Snap in India.“We believe that AR is a really powerful tool for self-expression and see millions of Snapchatters play with it every single day. We built Lens Studio to put this technology in the hands of our community, so that they can unleash their creativity. We’re so…