Raising Digitally Responsible Youth

Snap Map

The Snap Map allows users to view Snaps of sporting events, celebrations, breaking news, etc. in their communities and around the world. This feature is only available within the application itself. Perhaps the most concerning content viewable from this map, however, is where your friends are…exactly where they are…in real - time. Users can share their locations with everyone on their “friends” list so they can see exactly where their friends are and w hat they are doing (driving, sleeping, listening to music, etc.) in real- time on a virtual map. This is an example of what the Snap Map looks like to a user from the mobile application while logged into their account. These are all of Tyler ’s friends who have Snap Map enabled. They are represented by a Bitmoji 15 they designed for themselves. This is why it is so important that our children are only communicating with close friends and family that they know and trust in real life on Snapchat .

Within the Snapchat Settings, users can turn off the ability for others to see their location by enabling something called Ghost Mode or only allowing their location to be viewed by

certain friends (i. e. their best friend) and/or parents/caregivers or other trusted adults.

Ghost Mode is a full privacy mode that makes a user’s presence on the Snap Map visible to the user alone. This disallows other users from viewing their location, including users on their friend list. The Snap Map is often used by SST Threat Analysts and law enforcement to find missing students by asking their peers to share their Snap Map with us.

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