Instagram has announced only a few hours in your own social network through your account a ago new functionality in their application which they have called “Stories”. This option is none other than to take a picture from the application itself, edit it with colors, emojis and others in the style of Snapchat and upload it to your own history where it will be available for 24 hours so that your followers can see it. Come on, a copy of the Snapchat stories but within the own Instagram.
The mecansimo of “Stories” is similar to what we already had in Snapchat. To take a photo in this new mode, an icon above will appear left in the home screen (where now there is a button to add to people). Once the camera is opened only have to press the button that appears to make the photo or keep it to record video.
Once we have the photo or video, you can press to enter text or directly drawing with colors on what you want to share. As said, a small Snapchat introduced in Instagram, and say little, because things like the stickers or filters that has missing application of the white ghost.
Now, how will it put Instagram these pics of stories in your application to show the rest of followers? A new tab only for stories? Maybe not. Photos or videos that you share through this method, you will appear to your followers at the top all of the tab’s start with a circle and your profile image and yourself at the same time on the profile tab.
In the same way that in Snapchat, we can delete publications that we have uploaded to stories and, depending on your privacy settings, configure who can view them. What’s more, they will give us the option to hide them from people in an individualized manner.
In my opinion, is a feature that arrives late. Arrives late because Snapchat already has the monopoly of this type of content and other social networks such as Facebook are given in the hills trying to get an application in the same style. However, I am aware of the amount of people who use Instagram (Yes, Facebook also but know that it is not the same type of use) and if anyone can cope with Snapchat, is she. We will see if in a few months, we have to talk of success instagram stealing protagonism to Snapchat or how Instagram could not cope Snapchat in the field of ephemeral images.
