Snapchat walks back friend-ranking feature blamed for ruining relationships
SNAPSnap(SNAP) New York Post·2024-04-09 23:43

Snapchat demoted a controversial feature that ranks friends based on their relationship to the user after concerns that it was fueling insecurity among its teen-heavy audience. The social media site said that it would deactivate the default setting that automatically enabled the “Solar System” function on its Snapchat+ $4-per-month subscription service. The tool is a ranking mechanism that assigned one of the nine planets to a friend based on the frequency with which they communicated with one another — ana ...