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Snapchat recently introduced a subscription service called Snapchat Plus, which allows users to sign up for a $3.99 monthly or $29.99 yearly subscription to access exclusive content. With Snapchat Plus, subscribers can choose from a library of app icons to spruce up their home screen, earn a Snapchat Plus badge beside their Snap handle, and much more. Along with Snapchat Plus comes the Friend Solar System. It involves Best Friends being assigned different planets in our solar system depending on their status within someone else’s BF list. Let’s go over everything you need to know to oversee your own Friend Solar System and even climb the ranks in someone else’s.
How Does Snapchat’s Friend Solar System Work?
After subscribing to Snapchat Plus, users will see a ‘Best Friends’ or ‘Friends’ badge with a gold ring around it on someone’s Friendship Profile.
As is the algorithm for calculating the “Best Friends” list, you become one another’s eight closest friends if you snap/chat on a regular basis. The label of “Friends” means you’re one of their eight closest friends, but they’re not one of yours (this is also called “the friend zone” — just kidding).
Tapping on their “Best Friends” or “Friends” badge will show you which planet you are in their Solar System, with each planet representing a different position in their Best Friends list. Snapchat makes you ‘the Sun’ by default and everyone else on your Best Friends list corresponding planets judging by how often you interact.
For example, if your friend is the Sun and you are Mars in their Solar System, that means you’re their fourth closest friend.
What Is the Order of Our Solar System?
Our Solar system consists of eight planets, excluding the exiled Pluto. The acronym for our Solar System is MVEMJSUN. There are many mnemonics online that make it easier to remember the order, but one of the most famous is as follows: My (Mercury) Very (Venus) Excellent (Earth) Mother (Mars) Just (Jupiter) Served (Saturn) Us (Uranus) Noodles (Neptune).
In terms of Snapchat’s Friend Solar System, Mercury would be your closest BFF of them all and Neptune would be furthest from the Sun (you) and therefore lowest on your Best Friends list.
How To Move Up in Someone Else’s Solar System
Don’t worry, Neptunes. Hope isn’t lost to become your BFF’s Mercury. If you have your sights set on the Mercury spot, there are a few things you can do to overtake the competition.
- Interact with friends: Snapchat Planet activity increases with Snapchat friend interaction. It sounds fairly straightforward, but interacting with the Sun more often will increase your Solar System rank.
- Use Snapchat regularly: Going days or even weeks without opening Snapchat will harm your chances of chasing that Mercury spot. Stay consistently active to improve Friend Solar System activity.
- Keep your streaks going: Maintaining long-lasting streaks with friends (i.e. the Sun) might help you rise in their Solar System.
There’s still time to become the new Mercury, so take all your newfound knowledge and shake that Neptune spot for good.
