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Snapchat’s Ghost Trails mode can track your friends and tell you where they’ve been… which is not creepy at all, not at all.

subscription model of offering exclusive features for a price. Once you sign up, you can use the following:Gives you an indicator of how many times someone's watched your storyFriend Solar System - gives you a chat of who's your closest friendsEach of these features are fun enough - I've changed the App Icon to a pride variant for example, while having a badge and 'pinning' my wife as a best friend contact helps for when we're sending snaps to one another.

However, Ghost Trails goes one step further with this, as it makes a yellow line appear by your friends, showing where they've been in the last 24 hours. This instantly made me uncomfortable. In effect, you can see where your friends or partners have been, subject to their settings, and it feels like a bad move all round.to make it easier to restrict your information and location to others, this feels like a big backward step from Snap.

Hopefully the company gets rid of this feature and comes back with something with privacy in mind, but for now, if you're a big user of Snapchat, go to your profile, and switch on 'Ghost Mode'. This way, no one can see where you've been, and where you currently are on the map.

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