On July 8th of 2011, the social media platform Snapchat was officially released to the public. In the app, every person who made an account had to come up with an unique username, regardless of what their display name could be changed to. However, this username cannot be changed by any means once the account is created. This poses an issue to those that made their account at a young age, and did not realize how embarrassing it would become later on. As well as this, being able to change your username is just a very convenient feature. So, this petition is for Snapchat to let its users change their usernames.

      Let's face it. When you finally gain the courage to go ask that cute person for their snap and you have to tell them to add "bunnyloverXD2626", a part of you dies. I myself have had the same username for the past 7 years, and have had this happen many times. All of my friends have had a good laugh at it, and every time I have to laugh along with them, knowing there is little to nothing I can do to fix it. I know for a fact that there are more people out there in my shoes too!

      Okay, so there might be one other solution. That is to delete your entire account and make a new one entirely. It even makes the username unavailable, so nobody could make the same terrible decision you did. However, over the years we've made hundreds of friends, and years worth of streaks. While that snapscore might not be as big as you'd like it to be, it’s still too significant to leave in the dust. What if we don't want to take all that time adding every single one of our friends back, or delete those amazing memories you've saved for so long?

      This is our opportunity to change that! Through the Snapchat community, the company has added some of their most popular features to this app we all love, like group facetime. This is completely possible if we can garner enough support to get Snapchat’s attention. Plenty of other social media apps allow you to securely change your username, so it can’t be that hard to get them to change their minds. So to all of you like me who weren't lucky enough to have a proper form of common sense in those middle school years, I ask that you please sign this petition and spread it wherever it needs to go to be seen by the big guys!

- Thanks!