Snap’s (SNAP 3.57%) Zenly location-sharing app is gamifying social distancing and sheltering in place, launching a Stay At Home challenge. 

On Twitter Zenly announced the challenge which is designed to get young people to stay home as the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly spreads across the U.S.

Zenly stay at home leaderboard.

IMAGE SOURCE: ZENLY.

Through the app, users can see a leaderboard of friends who have spent the most time at home during a three day period. To keep users engaged they can share stickers of the scoreboard and tips to stay safe during the pandemic on Snapchat and other social media apps.

The game is an about-face for Zenly, which is designed to encourage people to share their locations outside of their homes. But with social distancing an important tool to slow the spread of coronavirus, which has infected more than 75,000 people in the U.S. , technology companies are going to great lengths to get people to stay home. 

Last week Facebook (META 0.84%) launched the Information Center, a new feature that appears at the top of the News Feeds of users and provides factual and up-to-date information about the coronavirus. It also encourages Facebook's 2.5 billion users to practice social distancing. "The broad consensus is that the biggest role we can help play is encouraging people to take the social distancing orders seriously," Zuckerberg said during a press call to announce the initiative. 

Zenly’s parent Snap has tried to position itself as a beacon of accurate information in the social sphere, which has faced widespread criticism about the amount of coronavirus misinformation and fake ads that are swirling. Snap recently teamed up with the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control to provide users with information and launched a filter alongside the WHO providing ways to stay safe.