Coffee and a Conversation
As Told Over Brunch is a home for intelligent discourse from the twenty-something perspective - so the stuff you gossip about over mimosas on Sunday morning or over takeout on your friend's couch when happy hour ends too early. We love chatting about our lives, whether it be the relationships we’re building (or destroying), lessons we've learned at work, struggles at school, growing pains we've felt, or even the food we’re talking over.
Over a year ago, my friend Justin and I wrote about our Snapchat streak that we had maintained for over a year. We crossed continents, endured natural disasters, and suffered power outages to reach that milestone—and we didn’t stop at 366 (it was a leap year).
In April, we reached two years. We invited our closest friends to a candlelit dinner where we announced plans for the future.
Just kidding.
Read More365 days. 52 weeks. 8,760 hours. 525,000 minutes - you get the point.
That’s how long Cazey and I have Snapchatted each other. The frequency of our Snaps has now reached a new milestone, this time in quantitative data.
‘The Streak,” as we call it, began on March 23, 2015. We have Snapchatted for over 365 consecutive days. And while that number should strike awe into the hearts of every Smartphone user, let us wow you even more.
For the length of our streak, neither of us has lived within 100 miles of each other (though we actually find it harder to Snap when we are together, because can’t we just say aloud what we’re thinking instead of Snapping it? Alas, we still manage to Snap each other from opposite ends of the living room when together).
Read MoreAssuming your phone automatically updates your apps, millennial friendship dynamics shifted on Monday while you were Facebooking. That is, Snapchat released a new version - one which allows users to identify their mutual besties, six degrees of separation, and who is the Judas of your best friends (who you snap all the time and they don't reciprocate).
In case you don't use Snapchat, it's an app that allows friends to send self-deleting photos and messages to one another. Snapchat used to be just in good fun (and maybe sexting) before they allowed friends to see who their friends' top Snappers were. You could click on a person's name and see the top three people who they snapped with.
No big deal, right?
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