Snap Map Takeover




Throughout the 21st century, social media has continued to grow at an excelling pace.  New social platforms are popping up constantly and new updates are being done to the already existing platforms.  One social media platform that got an extreme and questionable update would be Snapchat.  Back in June 2017, Snapchat created “Snap Map” which shares the location of whomever is using the app with their friends on the application (Vomiero & Mark Do, 2017).  This ultimately effects the socio technical affordances as now the users of Snapchat can interact in a completely new way.  The socio technical affordance can be summed up as the interactions that “involve individuals interacting with (a) technologies, and (b) other individuals” (Vatrapu, p.1).  Thus, with this new way to view people’s locations, the users of snapchat are using this new technology to view other locations for a multitude of reasons both positive and negative.  Thus, with this new direction of technology that is taking place, it is questioned on how this will affect relationships of people as the socio-technical affordances make it clear to see that the use of this new Snap Map gives more power to its users than ever before.
If you would like to know more about the start up details of Snap Map... Click HERE

References 
Vatrapu, R. K. (2009, September). Towards a theory of socio-technical interactions. 
In European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (pp. 694-699). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

Vomiero, J., & Mark Do, E. (2017, June 25). Snapchat's new map feature could be tracking 
you all the time. Retrieved November 19, 2018, from https://globalnews.ca/news/3554398/snapchats-new-map-feature-could-be-tracking-you-all-the-time/

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