In the year 2010 the beautiful social media application Instagram was released. At first it was all about posting square picturesque images of whatever you wanted with a “filter” or an effect. In one week of Instagram being launched it had about 100K users signed up. As years went on from being simple and easy Instagram has now upgraded to using hashtags, upgrading filters, sharing onto other social media platform, tagging, direct messaging, being compatible with other applications, chronologically putting popular post first and now, as of August 2nd, 2016 they released the new update of posting stories.
For those who have iPhones we all know that time of the month or week when the red dot pops up with a number in the middle you know you have to update before the number starts racking up. Clicking on the App Store takes time, because I like to look at the update and read about all the things I’m getting myself into before I ruin my everyday schedule.
For those of you living under a rock last week Instagram had released a feature for where you can make a “story”…What’s that? A story? That sounds familiar. I’ve been asking people for the past couple of days how they feel about it and they're 50/50. No one really understands why Instagram made an update like this. “As I click through the stories I sometimes forgot that I’m on Instagram, it’s okay, I guess, but Snapchat did it first.”
There’s nothing wrong with a little upgrade once in a while but for Instagram to just “copy” the idea of what some of us desire the most on snapchat is it’s stories. The common phrase I hear the most is “Did you see (*my*,*his/her*) story?” Everyone just assumes it’s snapchat.
The only upside to the “Instagram Stories” is that they're not in the way, the mini circles where you see the profile picture of the person posting it will be at the top of the screen and out of reach to accidentally tap on them, Unlike snapchat the stories don’t go away after you're done “watching” them. They will be there for a full 24 hours but they are still going to stay on the screen for the time being.
Personally I don’t like that Instagram has stories now because why share what you're doing already on snapchat, then Instagram? We all know, the low quality picture and the video are for snapchat and the A1 picture is for Instagram and that’s the way it should be.
