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Introducing Instagram Stories

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Re: Introducing Instagram Stories

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Post by madeofpalk »

This is Facebook's third attempt at trying to compete against Snapchat, this time with the exact same name as their product. I guess third time's a charm.

Interesting though that they're only implementing the most basic features (drawing over a video?), and not the more interesting and fun face tracking stuff that Snapchat does now.

Personally, I can't see this being successful. Snapchat will remain to be a quick and dirty way to get 'moments' to my friends (like twitter, but with video), whereas Instagram will be for more more 'serious', 'arty' photos.

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Post by alex_g »

I use instagram because everything stays there I use snapchat because it's quick and temporary.

Why couldn't they make it possible to have a story that appears as a single tile in your profile permanently?

Re: Introducing Instagram Stories

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Post by tdkl »

madeofpalk wrote: post #2

This is Facebook's third attempt at trying to compete against Snapchat, this time with the exact same name as their product. I guess third time's a charm. Interesting though that they're only implementing the most basic features (drawing over a video?), and not the more interesting and fun face tracking stuff that Snapchat does now. Personally, I can't see this being successful. Snapchat will remain to be a quick and…

Well, Snapchat Memories is a functionality to save recorded pictures.

Instagram Memories is just plain old Snapchat - story with expiration date.

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Post by Yhippa »

madeofpalk wrote: post #2

This is Facebook's third attempt at trying to compete against Snapchat, this time with the exact same name as their product. I guess third time's a charm. Interesting though that they're only implementing the most basic features (drawing over a video?), and not the more interesting and fun face tracking stuff that Snapchat does now. Personally, I can't see this being successful. Snapchat will remain to be a quick and…

I've stopped using Insta for the most part. I'm an old and I feel like Snaps are just more fun for me. The major issue with that is a lot of my friends haven't caught on yet.

Insta just feels like it has too many buttons and notifications from spammers flying at me. They lost the plot from the simple app they used to be a long time ago. Plus the new algorithm change is terrible for me. Every time I open the app I see the same pictures over and over again and lots of advertisements in there now.

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