5 Ways You Can Use The New Snapchat Snap Map

Once you pinch the map open, click around and check out Snap stories from anywhere. What's popping in Dubai? Poke around and find out.

When there's a lot of activity around an area, it'll show up as a hotspot. That way you can either check that place out or avoid it, depending on how social you're feeling.

Home and bored? Open the Snap Map to find out where all your friends are hanging out tonight, or which ones are home and bored, too!

Snap Maps will change your avatar based on what you're doing. If you're driving, it'll show your avatar in a car. If you're at a gym, it'll show you in work-out clothes. If you're listening to Spotify, it'll show you wearing little headphones. Zoinks! This feature slides from the cool into the creepy, but it's still cool.

Yes, some people are going to forget to go into ghost mode and get caught at Side Piece's place. Also, your friend who is always on a juice cleanse will get caught at KFC-a lot. But you can also find out cool stuff about the places your friends go. Click on your friend's location, and you can see all of their snap stories from that place as well as public snap stories. (Which means you can find out how long the wait at his favorite brunch place really is!)