But if you do, and I hope you do, people around the world will be able to see your content. Again, to be clear: Nothing you snap will be publicly visible unless you want it to be. Snaps visible on the heat map are submitted through Snapchat’s Our Story feature. Popular snap spots on the map are denoted with a warm, warmer, hot color gradient (blue to red) showing you where to tap. Where it really, shines, though, is in its other, less-publicized form: the heat map, which shows you places in the world where people are snapping - and lets you click through to see. The feature won’t activate without your consent.) But the truth is that the Find My Friends-esque tracking function of the app is not particularly novel, and it seems likely your friends will turn it off sooner rather than later.

(To be clear: It’s opt-in, and if you want no part in location sharing on Snapchat, just do nothing. So far, it’s mostly gotten attention because it lets users share and track the locations of their friends on a digital map using Bitmoji - a feature that has already led to some privacy worries. Earlier this week, Snapchat introduced a new feature called Snap Map, which you can access with a pinch gesture from the main camera view.

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