How to Instagram stories & why
How to Instagram stories & why
What is Instagram Stories?
Basically, Instagram has fully hoped on the Snapchat bandwagon like the rest of us in the world & now have implemented a 24-hour photo sharing system that will act the same as Snapchat, but won't affect your current feed. You can also add text, draw on your images, & add funny emojis just like in Snapchat, but these will be shared with your current followers or sent privately. This also isn't like Instagrams other apps that aren't fully integrated into the original app where you would have to switch between, Stories is fully built in & right on your home screen which is nice to see.
What's the difference between Stories & Snapchat?
Well to make this short it's pretty much identical to Snapchats base photo & video sharing modes, but stories don't have the same robust filters & geo tags as Snapchat. As well it is lacking the emoji system to see who your most active with & scores/archives that Snapchat does. Now it's too early to tell if Instagram will go that far in ripping those off from Snapchat, but only time will tell. The last main difference is the lack of disappearing private messages, but Instagram already has a private inbox system that will keep all your messages safe and sound, so no random faded miss messages.
Why should I use Stories?
I have been giving this a lot of thought ever since I saw this launch this morning & to be honest, I see myself using Instagrams Stories way more than my Snapchat simply because Instagram is already my main Social media app & now I have basically Snapchat built in. So now instead of focusing on two different apps that can be tried some at times, I can focus on the one app that I already love more than anything. Not to say I don't love snapchat, but I have been finding of late harder & harder to focus on creating content for it because I have to be in a different mindset when creating snaps, but now I can combine & focus on the one app that is already a home base for me.
Tell me what you think about Instagram's Stories feature & will you be using it over Snapchat or will you keep snapping away? Also, make sure to share this with your friend & check out my Australia post to get some summer inspiration!