Published 13:28 IST, November 11th 2020
What does HMU mean on Snapchat? How to use it in a message? Know all about it
Have you been fiddling with Snapchat captions, trying to figure out what does HMU mean on Snapchat? Read more for the meaning of HMU and how to use it
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Millions around world use popular social media apps like Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Each day, more captions, tags, and slangs are created, circulated, and eventually make ir way into our conversations. Understandably, with se new hip abbreviations, people get confused, and one of questions asked this time is, what does HMU mean on Snapchat?
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HMU meaning, in bro sense
langu used on social media platforms such as Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram is drastically different from a few years ago. New platforms frequently cook up ir own hashtags, which n translates into short texting slangs. Unless you are active in social media bubble and keep up with latest trends, se "slangs" are impossible to decode for aver user.
During regular texting, people generally use HMU, which means "hit me up". It means to get in touch or establish communication through text, call, or in some cases, face to face. It's a direct invitation used on a more personal level if you kw person and want m to contact you anytime. For example, you can mess a friend to hit you up (meet you) when visiting your town or at a party.
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On Social Media
As per Statista, Snapchat has close to 250 million active daily users worldwide. You can probably understand how this les to confusion during chat conversations as each group of people use entirely different slangs to get ir thoughts across. modern evolution of English langu focuses on fast response and convenience rar than clarity. That's why Snapchat became so popular because thing is faster than snapping pictures to tell your story and latest Snapchat update allows you to use funky looking lenses from or apps.
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What does HMU mean on Snapchat specifically?
On large platforms like Snapchat and Instagram, which have a broer reach, term HMU has a straightforward meaning. It still translates to "hit me up" but here it means to text one or dm (direct mess) one, usually to voice opinions or to enquire about content in ir posts. You can usually see lots of HMU Snapchat captions along with selfies in daily feed. Most of m are invitations to have a chat because of boredom or an to sell a product.
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You can directly HMU like many people do or you can use a Snapchat emoji to express it. re are many emojis used to convey this mess, but most common ones are tritional signs for "call me" ( hand with pinky finger out) and DM emoji (arrow pointing to a phone). Both of se tell audience same thing; only difference is that se two are a little more specific.
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13:28 IST, November 11th 2020