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With Snapchat, the extremely popular social media app among teenagers and young adults, a user can post an image or video to their story, and it disappears in 24 hours. Conversely, a user can send an image or video to a particular user, or multiple users, which can include geotags and filters. If you send it to another person, it disappears in 10 seconds or less. Facebook has now jumped on the stories bandwagon and it could be a hit or miss.
At first, Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, created the clever name Instagram stories, which is identical to Snapchat stories. Instagram stories also integrates the app Boomerang, which creates multiple images into a GIF. Although Instagram doesn't have filters that make you have dog ears and a tongue, many people still use this feature.
Next up was Facebook, which just came fairly recently, is using filters like minions from Despicable Me and having a sloth on your head. With more realistic filters and more adults who don't use Snapchat, this feature could be beneficial to those people. This is according to the Facebook Newsroom.
All three of these social media platforms have changed the way we communicate with each other, and now it will have at least one thing in common: stories.