Instagram Stories - Share moments of your day 📸

Attempt #23429 of Facebook trying to emulate Snapchat. How about instead of cloning a social network (we saw how that worked out for Google+), you create unique offerings? I'm willing to bet these constant attempts are just Zuckerberg bitter at Spiegel rejecting his takeover offer and taking it personal. Wouldn't put it past him.

Gavin - this is what happens when you try and acquire p̶i̶e̶d̶ p̶i̶p̶e̶r̶ snapchat

"My thesis is a story is a slideshow format, just like when Facebook invented the [News] Feed, and every social product was like, ‘That’s an innovation, how do we adapt that to our network?’ You’re going to see stories pop up in other networks over time, because it’s one of the best ways to show visual information in chronological order." Really interesting comment from Kevin Systrom!

I'm personally a fan of this move by @Instagram, but there is one major oversight. Now I have a single horizontal bar that shows a story from EVERYONE I'm following. Many of these people, I don't want to see their stories, but still want to follow their polished work. I very much want the ability to opt out of who I follow for stories and keep that space a bit sacred. Discoverability of finding the people I want to see is so so so much scrolling. The reason I'm a fan is because there is zero discoverability to build a Snapchat audience, making it much harder and slower. The majority of my own is on IG, so I look forward to engaging more deeply with that audience.

Facebook is desperate! 😂

As an instagram user I think this will fail and seriously I hope it will. I don't need another "Snapchat" app on my phone. Instagram was supposed to be nice photo sharing community and obviously after Facebook bought it, it turns out to be something completely different. How this story thing will benefit professional photographers and filmmakers? The only benefit this will have is for the companies that from now on, will spam us with content. Instagram is focusing on making a snapchat rip-off in their app while they still don't have an official iPad app, like wtf. The next feature that they will add is going to be LIVE? lol.

This is just very, very, veryyyyy clearly a 100% Snapchat Stories ripoff...Can we please return Instagram back to what it what?

Some initial thoughts after playing with Instagram Stories: - Social graph is already there - you can see stories right away without following anyone new - Unlike Snapchat, you don't have to follow public accounts to view their stories - Lots of room for account discovery, which Snapchat is currently lacking - The camera UI/creation experience is far better on Snapchat. Here's what's missing on Instagram: * Selfie lenses * Geofilters * Bitmoji * Emoji * Stickers * Time selection * Option to send to specific ppl - Too many steps to create a story on Instagram, whereas Snapchat opens straight to the camera - Most of my photos exist solely in Snapchat Memories, so I can't post them to Instagram without saving to camera roll first Instagram Stories won't replace Snapchat. After the initial hype, it'll mostly be used by brands and public figures. I'm excited to see how it evolves, though - especially the discovery aspect.

Eugh I hate this

snapchat for old people + ad manager, perfect for me (as an advertiser at least)