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Re: Introducing Instagram Stories

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Annnnnd IG is done.

I feel that the second dotcom bubble finally burst with the fall of Uber yesterday.

That wasn't really a fall, just a dissapointment. They still made a pretty hefty return on their investment there which adds to the cash position of the company and I'm sure the investors are pleased with the attempt to crack China.

Re: Introducing Instagram Stories

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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…

It's funny you mention that, because I know more people who use Instagram than Snapchat. Could be an age demographic? What I do know is my friends who use Snapchat don't use the stories mode, relying on sending direct snaps to the people they want to send it to. Not the case with Instagram.
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