Snapchat: how to use the application and what is it for?

Social networks have become an integral part of our lives. They allow us to do many amazing things: communicate with friends, make new acquaintances, seek like-minded people, learn useful and interesting information, watch the life of celebrities and share a piece of their news. Of course, this is not a complete list of all the possibilities of social networks. Their diversity allows everyone to find a resource to their liking.

So, Twitter fans can tell subscribers about new life events or share what they are doing at the moment. "Facebook" and "Vkontakte" help you find friends, write messages already available, listen to your favorite audio recordings, watch funny videos or share beautiful photos. Lovers "Instagrama" can tell about their adventures in the photoreport or upload a small video on any subject, and besides that, evaluate photos of their friends and acquaintances. A great alternative to Instagram is the Snapchat program. In a short time, it has become extremely popular among users. About what this program is and how to use Snapchat, we'll talk in the article.

What is an application?

Let's deal with it from the very beginning. Snapchat - one of the new social networks, reminiscent of "Instagram." In the latter there is a small function - to share the story. It consists in the fact that you can post a photo or video for a certain time up to 24 hours, your friends and subscribers can see it, but "snap" (in translation means "instant photo") does not remain in the gallery and is simply deleted after the expiration of the specified Term.

The function described above fully reveals the essence of the social network Snapchat. How to use it specifically and what are the differences from "Insta"? First, customer focus on a younger audience. Older people would simply put a picture, without doing any special actions with it. Secondly, the picture is seen by your friends from 1 to 10 seconds, and after 24 hours the photo disappears.

What did "Snapchat" interest young people?

"Snapchat" (or "Snapchat") became popular in a matter of days. Many thought: what is the secret of success? After all, young people, one by one, hurried to download the application and start using it. Moreover, the quality of the images obtained through this program left much to be desired.

It all started with funny Snapchat lenses. How to use them? Lenses are filters for photos, with which it has acquired new colors. For example, a face of a dog was placed on the image of your face, and then you could turn into a mischievous dog. And if you show the language, then the dog also appears, and he will begin to "lick the screen from within."

There are many such lenses: a bunny, a princess, a beauty, a panda, a bear, a doll and many others. Every day you have 10 new lenses. The next day they are updated, some remain, and others disappear until an unknown time.

The developers offer to buy the users liked the lens in order to be able to use it on an ongoing basis. In addition to everything on the resulting photos, you can write text or draw. The social network is aimed at exchanging bright moments of life with the help of instant photos.

Snapchat: how to use?

In order to get started with the application, it's enough to download it from the "Play Store" or "App Store" if you use "Android" or "Apple" respectively. How to use Snapchat on "Android", even the child will understand.

The application is freely available. After downloading, you will need to pass a small registration. To do this, we specify the mail, we come up with a password and enter the date of birth. How to use Snapchat on iPhone? The procedure is similar.

Lenses Snapchat and how to use them to create photos?

Beginners do not immediately understand the work of the program. It's not a complicated interface or illegible graphics. Simply with the release of any new social network for the first time it becomes not entirely clear where this or that function is located.

Selecting a lens

Many "users" come to "Snapchat" exclusively for the sake of amusing lenses. Then they save the photo in their gallery or the story of "snaps" ("Snapchat" provides for long-term storage of photos for personal viewing) and upload them to other social networks. For example, a filter with golden butterflies on his head gained popularity among girls, because he visually lengthened his face, corrected skin imperfections and made eyes more. As a result, the face became visually more beautiful with the Snapchat lens. How to use these lenses?

We go into the mode of creating a photo, choose the function of the front camera and aim at your face. After that, click on the image of your face and see that below there are images of lenses in small circles. Just click on one of them and see how your face changed. Developers have come up with enough creativity to create each of these filters.

Now you know how to use Snapchat. Share photos with friends and family!