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What do the blue and purple rings mean on Snapchat? Here's what to grasp.

Navigating the intricacies of various social media platforms, particularly those which were round for a couple of years, can feel like a frightening task. In an effort to stick relevant, oftentimes these different packages will test out or completely adopt new features in an attempt to stay folks hooked and the use of their products.

And while the ability to do more with an app is hardly a bad thing, it could actually take some being used to, and questions get up — as is the case with Snapchat customers who are questioning: What does the purple circle I see on on any person's profile picture mean?

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What does the purple circle on Snapchat mean?

Back in 2013 — earlier than The Weeknd dropped a right kind album, and Netflix was nonetheless licensing a lot of content material from other film production firms, and TV networks and each and every social media app in the market had a "stories" function — Snapchat was once debuting the thought of "stories" for a particular consumer's profile.

You had 24 hours to publish whatever footage/movies you sought after for your tales, and your folks could just tap on the purple circle surrounding your profile picture and see no matter new content you had to be had. Stories that have been new to you may be indicated by this purple circle, and that hasn't modified.

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What does the blue ring/circle mean on Snapchat?

This is where issues trade path a bit bit, however when you've been using Snapchat for a while, the blue ring will make sense.

When you're messaging other people in Snapchat and you are checking your listing of friends, you might notice that there are specific color-coded message packing containers that mean you can know what to be expecting whilst you open the snap. If it's purple, then it's a video. If it's red, then it's a image. And if it is blue, it's text.

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Carrying over this identical logic that colours correspond to different purposes, a blue ring round anyone's Snapchat profile way that you've just accessed any individual's tales while you had been browsing through your pals record/messaging tab.

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A color-coded machine also appears to increase to the quite a lot of "sections" of Snapchat. When you head over to the Spotlight tab, it's yellow. Snap Map is inexperienced, and the Spotlight page is purple.

So in case you are ever questioning a couple of explicit notification or design choice while you're using the app, it almost certainly corresponds to any such coloration schemes.

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The shade of the ring on anyone's tale does not hint as to what kind of content material is within the story, then again, because it does if you find yourself messaging other folks. So when you idea that you simply have been going to get a text-only story entry from any person with a blue ring around their profile, all it manner is that you were gaining access to their story via your mates record and not Snapchat's Stories web page.

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What does "WCW" mean on Snapchat?

You will have spotted that while browsing via Snapchat tales on a Wednesday, you'll be able to see a photo of a lady with the textual content "WCW" on it, and that interprets to "Woman Crush Wednesday."

Usually folks post photos of girls that they in finding horny on nowadays and need to percentage their appreciation of these individuals with their followers. Similarly MCM stands for "Man Crush Monday" and SCS stands for "Sloth Crush Sunday" where other folks publish photos in their favorite sloths.

OK, SCS is indubitably not a factor, however I would not be shocked.

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