For project 1 I chose to focus on the people who pop up on the “Needs Love” section of Snapchat. The names who show up in this section are people you haven’t snapped in a long time and is Snapchat’s way to make you interact more with someone you may not have talked to in a while and therefor use their app longer to keep a conversation up with an old friend. Well as it turns out nobody wants to respond to a Tindr match from three years ago.
My guidelines for this was to send the Needs Love people a random picture at any time of day. Looking back I wish I would have set a more strict set of rules for this project such as sending a snap at a certain time of day or a specific image. However, I don’t think it would have changed the results too drastically.
Day 1
The People Who Needed Love

The Picture Sent

My sweet cat, Clarence
The Results

Observations
I’m not that surprise that Brittney didn’t respond because I haven’t spoken to her since the beginning of freshmen year of college. Sanjel is my cousin so I was a little sad that she didn’t respond to a picture of my cat, but she also never texts me back so I guess I shouldn’t have been that disappointed about it. Emily was the only person to respond of the three and she sent back a picture of her cat as well and suggested we set up a play date for them.
Day 2

The Picture Sent

I wasn’t even outside but there are somehow clouds. Also excited to say I made that filter.
The Results

Observations
This was the most successful day. Richard is an old friend from middle school and even though we exchanged a few quick snaps it was still nice that he even responded. Abby is someone I have probably had a total of three conversations with throughout high school so I was very surprised she responded which was interesting considering we never talked. I was actually disappointed Feenix didn’t respond since I was in our hometown and I had spoken to her barely a month ago.
Day 3
The People Who Needed Love

The Picture Sent

The Results

Observations
Absolutely no responses and actually Becca didn’t even open it. Nick is an old Tindr match from fall 2015 that I quickly ghosted so no surprise at his lack of response. Zach is someone I met during my time on the high school speech and I last saw him while we were judging a speech meet back in November, so once again it is not surprising I received no response.
Conclusion
I went into this thinking that it was going to be a lot harder than it actually was, but thats only because I lucked out on who Needed Love. I wouldn’t mind repeating this again and trying to make it a little more personal or strange with the snaps.