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Does Snapchat Automatically Add Your Contacts When You Join?

Does Snapchat automatically add your contacts when you join? How can I add friends on Snapchat? How do I find people to follow on Snapchat? Can I have only my friends contact me using Snapchat? By the end of this tutorial, you will learn the answers to all these questions and be well on your way to mastering these most confusing social networks.

Snapchat’s star may be falling, but it remains immensely popular. It also remains difficult and confusing to understand for those new to the social network. Where Facebook is mostly dumb, Snapchat takes a lot more work to top it off. The questions asked in this tutorial are some of the many questions we get about this social network, so I know I’m not the only one who took a while to deal with this!

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Does Snapchat automatically add your contacts when you join?

Snapchat doesn’t automatically add your phone contacts when you create a new account. You can choose to add your contacts if you want, but nothing will happen without your permission.

How can I add friends on Snapchat?

Adding friends on Snapchat is one of the few things that is really simple. You can add them using a feature called Quick Add from your Snapcode, Username or contacts list.

Quick Add is a Snapchat recommended feature where the app suggests people you might want to add. Snapcodes are unique identifiers that act like QR codes. Take a picture of their Snapcode to add. Of course, you have to be with the person you want to add, but this is the easiest way to add friends on Snapchat.

  1. Open the camera from within Snapchat.
  2. Take a picture of the person’s Snapcode.
  3. Select Add and you’re done.

You can also search for the person’s username or username from within the app.

  1. Open Snapchat and select Add Friend.
  2. Type the usernames in the box and press Search.
  3. Once you’ve found the person you’re looking for, select Add.

You can use your phone book list if you know that one or more of them are on the network.

  1. Open your Snapchat profile page and select Add Friend.
  2. Select Contacts from the list and find Friends.
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Depending on your phone settings, you may need to allow Snapchat to access your Contacts List. When you do, the list should be populated and you can add them individually as you wish.

How do I find people to follow on Snapchat?

If you want to find people to follow who are not friends with IRL, you can do that too. The all-conquering Reddit has a dedicated Snapchat group for beginners that lists people who are happy to chat with strangers (mostly) in a non-creepy way. There are also loads of websites that list groups you can join to get started and make friends with the app. As these sites come and go, Google is your friend there.

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Can I have only my friends contact me using Snapchat?

To get the most out of any social network, you have to put yourself out there. You also need to balance this with being practical and avoiding jerks and wasting time. You have some control over how visible you are on Snapchat. You can restrict your profile visibility to your friends and who can see your stories.

Restrict who can see your profile:

  1. Open Snapchat and open your profile.
  2. Select the gear icon to access Settings.
  3. Select Who Can, then Contact Me.
  4. Select My Friends.

Restrict who can see your stories:

  1. Open Snapchat and open your profile.
  2. Select the gear icon to access Settings.
  3. Select Who Can, then View My Story.
  4. Select My Friends or Private.

I won’t repeat this ad forever, but you can control who sees what from this section of the Settings menu. I highly recommend changing the See My Location setting here, as snapmaps can be more informative than you might imagine.

If you notice that you are randomly added on Snapchat, you can ignore or block them if you need to. Not all random people will be annoying, but some will inevitably be annoying.

To block someone on Snapchat:

  1. Select your profile in Snapchat.
  2. Select Add Me to bring up a list of those who have added you.
  3. Select the person you want to block.
  4. Select Block from the options.

You can ignore them if you want. Either way, once done they won’t be able to contact you via Snapchat or bother you again.

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