Snap photos and video sharing apps "Snapchat" always know where the users are.Who is the geofilter when you say hello from the Brooklyn Bridge (a filter to display "time and place" when sending snaps to your friends or adding snaps to a story)You can see the thing.
In addition to this, Snap announced the Snap Map, a function that uses location information in a completely new form, in mid -June 2017.Many people were surprised at this news.The SNAP MAP tracks the current location information and places the emoji instead of an avatar on the map like a pin.When you zoom, you will find accurate location information, including the address you are.It resembles Apple's "Find My Friends" and Facebook's "Live Location" function, but it is done with that Snapchat.
It is clear that snapers are a convenient way to connect with friends about Snap Map.But many people are creepy anyway.Snapchat is worried about stalkers because the user is relatively young and does not fully understand what the technology that always sends their position is.
On the other hand, there are good news.Snap Map is strictly "opt -in".You have to update the app and see the page to explain this function.Also, even if you allow the sharing of location information to other people, it is relatively easy to cancel (opt out).
When the first startup after updating the app, Snapchat displays a tutorial on how to use Snap Map.First, I will introduce how to do a pinch and zoom with a camera tool and access the map, and then ask who wants to inform you of your location.
There are three options: "all friends", "select from friends", or "only yourself".If you choose "only yourself", Snapchat will be called "ghost mode".Now your avatar disappears from other people's maps.Other people on the map can be seen, but from the other side, it is invisible.It is perfect for just looking at it.
But don't forget that Snapchat (and smartphone sensors) are "visible".In order to set the location information together, it is necessary to select the item "Do not share" the location information of Snapchat from the "setting" of the smartphone.
It's easy to finish the tutorial and change the person who can see yourself on the map.Open Snap Map and click the setting menu in the upper right corner.A person with your "privilege that can track everything" can decide here.
TEXT by ELIZABETH STINSON
Translation by Ryo Ogata/Galileo