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Snapchat Features: Finding Friends

Lesson 5 from: How to Use Snapchat

Joel Comm

Snapchat Features: Finding Friends

Lesson 5 from: How to Use Snapchat

Joel Comm

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5. Snapchat Features: Finding Friends

Lesson Info

Snapchat Features: Finding Friends

right underneath The ad in me is add friends. You see it right there The silhouette with the plus sign gonna tap Add friends. Now there's a few different ways that we can go ahead and add friends we can add by user name. So if you know my user name, which you do, you go ahead and tap, add my user name and just put Joel comment and then add it and you'll have added me. And I'll see that another way is you can import your address book so I can go right here. And I can continue to my address book. I'm not actually going to reveal my address book here, but if you want to import your personal one, you would click continue, and then you would be able to add people from your address book. You can add them by snap coat. And what this will do is it will bring up the camera roll. And in fact, this is somebody who sent me. They're snap code just the other day and said, Hey, would you take a look at our, uh, our Snapchat and tell me what you think? So I just went ahead and I clicked on the snap co...

de That was in my photo album. And I'm gonna Adam, and I'm gonna take a look at it later on. Now this one is really fun. Add nearby. Everybody go ahead and click on add nearby because this is going to take care of this whole room instantly. Now you could see here for my screen. It's it's automatically pulling up those of you that are on Snapchat that are nearby. It's also gonna pick up on those that are in the creative live offices right outside the studio. So, uh, there's razor right there. I'm gonna add you. There's, you know, adds u there, Sarah adding, you there, Sean. Trey, We don't have a John in here, do we? No, John is somewhere Must be in the office is So we're starting to see some of the people that are on staff here outside the Creative Life studio that are also showing up in its searching. So as long as you are in the ad nearby, it's kind of saying, Hey, who's hanging out here? So I hope you're all adding each other because what we're gonna do is some hands on where you're going to be able to snap to each other and get the feel for the functionality. So I've added a bunch of you here. Doesn't look like all of you showed up, but, um bunch, you did. And finally, the last feature on here a share user name and I can airdrop another user from that feature. See, it's actually picking up on some of your other phones there. I don't want to share all your information publicly, though. So did everybody at a bunch of people those of you at home. What was that searching? Okay, those of you at at home. Unless you've got other people right there next to you that are on Snapchat and sharing thereby, you won't be able to do it that way. But this is really fun to do. If you are at a conference, a convention, a seminar of any kind, you want to know who else is here? That's on Snapchat that you can engage with you. Goto add nearby like look at all those people we know we have something in common because we're at the same event. Same conference. We might be in the same nature market so it's a great way to discover and be discovered. So now we can go to the third item on the main screen, which is my friends and what I tapped that I have an A to Z listing of all the people that I am connected with on Snapchat Very long list. I've been at it for a while now. Your current limitations on Snapchat are that you can follow 6000 people and those air those air the hard limits. Facebook has a 5000 friend limit. Snapchat is 6000. I actually hit the limit and now I'm in the process of unfollowed owing and curating so that my feet is more usable now, just like Twitter has lists of people that you can designate who you're gonna follow. And Facebook allows you to also put friends close friends, right? Or put him in family so you can watch those people closer. There are mechanisms which that you can use on Snapchat to do that as well. And we're going to talk a little bit about that Here. Let's take a look at a the info that goes along with any friend and I'm gonna click on my friends again. I'm just gonna demonstrate. This year I see my friend Chris Strub. He's gonna be really happy he got a shout out here under Strub snap swaps. If you go to any one of your friends in you tap and hold down, you'll see that it pops up This panel that has a lot of content. It looks like a small little window, but there's actually a lot going on here. In the upper left corner is the bucket with the arrow. And if I tap that, this allows me Teoh to share this contact with somebody else Locally, here, through the air drop also allows me to save him to my dropbox or two male or message it to somebody in the upper right corner. We have the gear, and the gear allows me to do some really fun things, like edit their name. I could remove them. I can block them, will go into all those a little bit more in the future and at the bottom, you're going to see three icons and again we're going to go in depth on all of these. So I'm gonna go fast for the moment. But the 1st 1 is a chat bubble. The 2nd 1 is your camera, and the third is a share that content again. We're going to get back and go to all of those. But that shows you that there's a lot you can do from within that I'm trying to go high level first and then we're gonna go deep now. Also back at the main screen, you'll see up at the top in the middle. There's this trophy. What is that all about? Well, it's tap it. This is the trophy case. A completely, utterly meaningless feature. That's just plain fun. When you do certain things in Snapchat, you unlock these trophies, their achievements, and you could see that I have unlocked these top What are they? 16? And then we've got a mystery that a bunch when we're locked, I don't know what they are. Well, what do they do? Well, if I tap on one, for example, Hubble, we tap on the microscope, sent 10 video snaps using Zoom, and when you unlock a new trophy, that trophy appear in your trophy case, this will turn yellow. So many of you that just sign up for the first time. You probably have a yellow trophy now for having done, you know, for signing up for having your first snap. Some other trophies, like the monkey, sent a video snap without audio. I sent video, but there was no audio to is a silent snap. The lollypop means I sent a snap using five or more pen colors, and if you look next to it, you can see that there's two that are locked. I'm not sure what I need to do to unlock those. I kind of don't want to know. I just wanted to happen organically. There's some people that you can go and you can google, and you can find out what all of these are and how to unlock them. But to me, it's exciting. When the trophy lights up, what did I dio? Oh, I had locked a new trophy. They're meaningless. They're not worth anything other than the smile that puts on your face. But that's a lot of what Snapchat iss, and you can tell that that is their attitude and vibe by the fact that they've got the smiley Little Ghost is their mascot. All right, so we accomplished stories. Another quick overview of the interface before we really dive in deep is if we're back at our main screen like this, there's a lot of different ways you can swipe in Snapchat. And what we want to do is we want to swipe up. So I'm just gonna take my finger and just go up like that and this puts me into your main content creation page just swiping up and from this screen, This is where we are going to take our pictures and where we're going to shoot our videos. Okay, We're gonna pass by this for the moment because our next segment is going to go in the death on all the things you can do on this content creation page Right now, when I want you to do is from this one. By the way, there I am looking good. If I might say so myself, Is that a product in the hair at work today? Go figure, swipe toe the You're going to the right side. But you're doing it by swiping left. See, I'm gonna do it slow so you can actually see. So my finger is is on the screen right here, and I'm just swiping it to the left

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Ratings and Reviews

Rob
 

Joel Comm is a leader in many spaces and an expert in Snapchat. This course will bring you up to speed in how to use and create your stories with this exceptional tool. Joel makes it easy and fun to learn, and has a great sense of humor. If you want to learn Snapchat and what to create, take advantage of this course. Joel has done an excellent job.

a Creativelive Student
 

Wow! This class blew me away. I was fortunate to be part of the in-studio audience. Joel does a wonderful job of educating you on the nuts and bolts of Snapchat. My favorite part of on how to create stories using Snapchat and the use of Geofilters. Most importantly, I really admired the energy and enthusiasm Joel brings with him for this course. A must-buy for anyone wanting to learn Snapchat to spread his/her message.

pam
 

OMG! This was SO awesome! I've been trying to 'get' Snapchat for a while and it wasn't clicking. Watching Joel pulled it all together. He was funny, engaging and made it so clear!

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