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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to my teens, snap is more common, and less of a big deal. Like you would give your snap or snap friends, acquaintances, etc. Texting is deemed more “intimate” & more of like a next level thing - close friends or SOs.

I know, doesn’t make much sense to me, but they seem to differentiate between the levels of communication.[/quote]

This is what mine tell me too. Snap is casual and they have all sorts of classmates on there. Messages move to text (iMessage) once you are closer friends or romantically once you are more exclusive with each other and it’s maybe gonna last awhile? Having someone’s phone number apparently gives you some sort of status friendship wise - so silly lol.

You can add an acquaintance just searching their name on snap without much overthinking, but asking for their phone number would be weird to these kids. I guess bc you have to ask for it and that’s scary? Who knows!! Some of my 16 yo olds friends have been banned from Snapchat (I guess for inappropriate things - they track phones so the only way around this is to use another device) so those kids message on instagram….

Personally I don’t think this is the hill to die on - I’d let them have it and you can get on the phone occasionally and make sure location is off and they only have friends and local kids on there. [/quote]

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