Carly Montgomery, year 12, discusses how she recently lost her longest Snapchat streak due to an overload of assignments, and she proposes a way to prevent this heart-breaking yet very common loss among State High students during the school term.
Help me. School started just a week ago, and already I fear I’m losing my mind. Just yesterday, I had to buy my friend a strawberry sundae for losing our 800-day Snapchat streak. How could this be happening? I never forget my streaks. While the average high school student spends an hour on social media daily, I usually clock in at least two hours a day, every day, rain or shine, school or not.
If you belong to the 94% of teens who use social media daily, you know why. It’s 2018. My likes, streaks and follower counts indicate how popular I am now; how successful I will be. …show more content…
We can do whatever we need on social media. In the unlikely event that every social media platform collapses simultaneously, we can switch off the room lights to take selfies for the next update, because everything looks better in the …show more content…
We can dedicate our free period to posting filtered selfies, liking Facebook albums, and commenting heart-eye emojis on strangers’ photos ASAP (As Soon As they Post). This way, everyone will know you as the cute and supportive friend, regardless of your personality. According to an Australian Youth survey, 72% of teens would think of their most active follower as an “irreplaceable best friend”. Thus, you will become someone everyone loves, someone everyone wishes to marry, and someone everyone wants to die besides (highest form of flattery). Hence, we must pass my proposal straightaway, so we can acquire some forever loyal