Facebook Continues Attack on Snapchat with MSQRD Filters

However, a lot of users might be tempted to ask Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg exactly what they are trying to do with the update. The photos and videos uploaded on Instagram through this new feature will disappear after 24 hours though, and won’t appear in either one’s profile grid, or in feed. In the Snapchat as your messages gets disappear just after you read it. “Instagram has always been a place to share the moments you want to remember”, they say.

This week Instagram has “broken the Internet” with its brand new update featuring a new feature known as “Instagram Stories”.

The way people share on Facebook has shifted in the past 10 years, moving from text to photos to videos. The service started rolling out to Canadian Facebook users on Friday, and there is a quick how-to process that explains how everything works, so users won’t accidentally post unwanted photos.

So when the Facebook-owned operation brought out Instagram Stories earlier this week, plenty of people took notice. These have included Poke, Slingshot, and Bolt, all of which fizzled out shortly after launch. Meanwhile Snapchat, which rejected a $3 billion acquisition offer from Facebook in 2013, has seen explosive growth in photos and videos shared to the platform. Users can add text and draw and post emojis and other illustrations on any of their photos and videos-a social media feature that was made standard by Snapchat.

The new Instagram logo that left users less than impressed.

Contents posted under Stories will also carry the privacy settings of the account, meaning that the posts will be visible only to followers of an account if it is set to private.

Filters are one of Instagram’s most popular features, and they are available for use with content posted to Stories. If the feature sounds familiar, it is because Snapchat already provides a wide array of such filters. Undoubtedly, the company doesn’t want to be like Twitter whose fame is declining, they added. It’s a wait and see, right?

Why is it okay to “copy” Snapchat’s features?

The Onion will not be the only partner aiding Instagram in its Stories rollout. Stories does not allow users to zoom and does not provide the face-altering features that Snapchat users have grown to love and expect. “Facebook was the first to introduce the Feed, now tons of apps have feeds and you don’t think anything of it when another app uses a feed – it’s the same thing with hashtags”.