Recently there was an update to the social media app Snapchat. Basically, when you are on the camera screen, if you tap and hold on your face a new menu comes up. What it does when you tap on your face is it gets the shape of your face. There are many options of what to do next. One of the effects that it has is you can start puking rainbows. This may seem weird, but it’s actually . . . really weird.

Most people like the update. PFMS middle-schoolers Jack and Rachel gave us their opinions on some of the updates.  Jack says, “I kind of like it because it’s cool how you can different effects.”  Rachel says, “I think it’s cool, but I don’t like how in the chat you have to hold down the messages you sent to save them. But I do like the new animation features.”

Although this is the main effect of the new update, there are others that people may not know about. There is also a new trophy feature. If you do certain things, like sending five pictures with five or more colors in them, you get a trophy that looks like the rainbow emoji. Also, if you go to the place you go when you want to chat with someone, then you can see what their “profile pictures” are. These pictures are a series of five pictures that play in a repeating sequence of about half a second each.  Overall, I think that the update was very clever, even if some people liked Snapchat just as it was.