To contrast with some other snarky responses, for me Snapchat has very little to do with &quot;social validation&quot;. Personally snapchat is another tool for me to connect with people. I get to see what people are up to on their shared stories, we exchange cool&#x2F;funny things we see, and my musical friends and I exchange short videos of what we&#x27;re working on. It&#x27;s a little more humanizing than pure text chat. I only text&#x2F;chat with a few people on a regular basis, but there&#x27;s about 10 people I exchange snapchats with pretty frequently. It&#x27;s a nice way to keep in touch, and it&#x27;s a platform I tend to share on more than Facebook. The content is only there for 24 hours, and is only seen by the ~50 people I added rather than the 800 on Facebook.