Now that we're way past the days of fleeting nude pics on Snapchat, there's a new way to use the *most millennial of apps* to flirt.
According to a recent Mashable article, a guy (or girl) viewing your Snapchat story over and over again is the new "Facebook poke" of the online flirting world.
"Not sure if someone in real life notices you?" relationship expert (and dating coach on E!'s "Famously Single") Laurel House told Mashable. They are if they're noticing you on Snapchat:
"You might not be aware of their in-person side glances and sly looks, but on Snapchat there's no hiding. Regardless of whether or not someone clicks 'like,' you know that they have looked."
Revelist spoke with House as well to follow up on her thoughts about Snapchat in the age of dating, and whether a crush viewing your story really is a good indicator of them liking you back.
"Absolutely," she said. "Someone who's interested in you is going to check you out, and that means looking at your photos." On Facebook you can sometimes hide photos, she said, but on Snapchat your story is there for all to see.
"So oftentimes the person looking is doing it intentionally because they know you're going to see they're looking — it allows them to show interest, and you to gauge interest."
The good thing about that is that gives you the power to manipulate your Snapchat story in a way that will get your crush to take notice. For example, House said, if you know your crush loves the color yellow, you can feature the color in your story to attract them.
"You can cater your photos to the interest of the person you're interested in, and you know that they're interested because you can see that they're viewing your photos."
I asked House about Snapchat's new autoplay feature — that is, how when you click to view one story, it immediately plays the next one right after. What if your crush is just viewing your story because it played automatically after someone else's had finished?
It doesn't matter, she said; if they weren't interested in you, they'd close out of your story.
The true indicator, according to House, is repeat visits. "They come today, they come tomorrow, they come the next day — they repeatedly check your story out," and that means they're checking you out.
