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“Bryce sent you a new message.”
Alright. This was it. After a few days of witty banter and the usual small talk questions, not to mention the dreaded, “What are you looking for on Tinder?” (Seriously, ew.)… Here it was. The request I had been waiting for… When lo and behold I read… “So, what’s your Snap?”
Are you kidding me?? What’s my Snap??? Geez, you don’t even want my number? You just want to know the username I half-ass came up with on a whim for an app that I didn’t think would stick around?! This is a problem.
Maybe it’s just me, but when a guy asks for my Snap instead of my number it’s a little off-putting for a number of reasons. I mean, don’t get me wrong– I ask guys for their Instagram usernames all the time but that’s more for creeping reasons than communicating purposes. Plus, it’s just way easier to scroll back two years in a guy’s Insta pics than it is to swipe and zoom in on group pics trying to figure out which scruffy, polo wearing, SEC graduate I’m actually talking to.
The thing about Snapchat is that it can get real personal, reeeeal quick. Let’s forget the simple fact that everything disappears and leaves no real trace… let’s just look at the concept of a Snapchat story and how revealing it truly has the potential to be.
Case in point: I post selfies on my story. I know it’s obnoxious, not to mention narcissistic and that selfies really are not excellent story content, but I mean, I’m human and I’m flawed… so it happens.
(Especially when the seasonal filters come out. Damn. Every girl looks better with a pair of pink antlers on her head.)
Also, I know and will own up to the fact that I am the worst when it comes to drinking and snapping. Yeah, I have a salaried job with a title that sounds halfway decent and I pay my own bills, but I also sometimes go balls to the walls on weekdays and have super lame nights on other weekdays. Two things that I’m not publicizing anywhere other than my Snapchat.
So by asking for my Snapchat, you’re inviting yourself into my closet full of skeletons. You are asking to see the true me and truly the worst me. Because odds are Bryce/Matt/Brad/Jacob you will not like the girl who posts three minutes worth of drunk lip-syncing along with pictures of whatever show I’m currently binging on Netflix. Odds are you will not care to see all of the dogs I come in contact with on a random work day. And odds are you will decide I’m not relationship material (which, I’ll admit is kinda fair) and things will be sabotaged before they even had a chance to begin.
And Tyler/Ian/Patrick/Mark/Ryan, you only have yourself to blame for this situation. I was perfectly content with these half ass conversations on an app featuring only our most attractive pictures. I was perfectly content with the not too complex but perfectly tailored content portraying us as exactly what we elected to be portrayed as. So when you see the 3 filtered selfies and #ootd pics, the black and white photos of Cole Sprouse’s now perfect face, or the pics of my half-empty drink sitting on a dimly lit table, you have no one to blame yourself. And you shouldn’t get to change your mind about me. That’s not fair, and if you’d asked for my number we wouldn’t have this issue in the first place.
Serious question: Do you only plan on asking for nudes? Do you have a girlfriend that makes you feel the need to hide our conversations? Do you not own an actual phone and just use Snapchat from an iPad at your office or your grandma’s house? (Unfortunately, yes. That is a thing.)
If you answered yes to any of the above then honestly, we probably shouldn’t be communicating at all. And I should probably swipe on our conversation and hit that unmatch button. But we both know I won’t. And we both know you won’t… yet. But give it a week of watching my Snap story, and our story might change.
In conclusion, just ask for my damn number. Don’t beat around the bush and ask for a Snapchat username just so that you can creep on my everyday habits, as terrible as they may be. Text me, and let me reply, then leave your read receipts on as you ignore my texts if you must. Make out with me at a bar then delete our text convo to forget the night and forget who I am as a human. Just please, for the love of everything holy, don’t ask for my Snapchat username.
Oh, and if you’re even considering asking for my Twitter handle, you can just go ahead and see yourself out. That’s not just weird—that’s psychopathic. .
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Maybe it’s me but I’d rather see a lady’s Twitter handle bc it’s a very good inkling to their day-to-day life.
It has photos, funny thoughts they put into words, and also, their “likes”, which are basically their thoughts they don’t want to share with others……
Oh god…. I am psycho.
i guess i’m the only person who drunkenly tweets blink 182 lyrics and retweets way too many political tweets
Oh don’t worry. I do that on the reg. But that also showcases a little personality.
@melissarustemov
Upon receiving a potential suitress’ phone number, I’m definitely adding her on snapchat the next day if she doesn’t add me first
Are other people not doing this? Why get the snap when you can get the number and the snap?
that’s totally FINE!! it’s when they don’t ask for my number first
If you get their number, you automatically have their Snapchat username.
Fucking old people, man.
My Snapchat is reserved for drunk shenanigans and embarrassing videos of the wife. I did sent a dick pic out once, but it was really an uncooked hot dog wiener and I was drunk
The last 2 guys I’ve been talking to both asked for my Snapchat, not my number. I hate Snapchat so it’s really off putting, I have to assume they only want it to send dick pics.
Shooters shoot.
Username checks out
If a guy asks for my Snapchat before anything else they don’t get a reply. Grow up.
Get off my lawn.
I hate when girls filter nearly every picture with dog ears/tongue, antlers, or whatever. I hope this doesn’t make me sound like a grumpy old man, but constantly filtering/adjusting pictures is a big red flag
… that’s the point
The vast majority of the time when a Bumble guy asks for my snap, he sends me a dick pic almost immediately, but in a few cases they just use the messaging through there which I just thought was weird af
I legitimately never understood the concept of sending dick picks when trying to hook up with a girl.
Trust me, nether do I.. 0% of the dick pics I have received have led to a hookup
Let’s not say things we don’t mean.
right!?! the using snapchat only to message is so sketch.
From what I’ve noticed, the guys who send dick pics immediately are really proud of how “big” they are.
When they don’t even ask and you just find a snap request and wonder how the hell they found you