[treigerm]

I would really like to know why Facebook thought that this would be a better feature for Instagram than for Messenger or WhatsApp. That's how I use my social media apps:

- WhatsApp: Messaging with most of my friends (I'm from Germany and here everyone I know uses WhatsApp) - Messenger: Messaging with people that don't have WhatsApp - Snapchat: Letting my friends now what I'm up to right now. I don't put much thought into what I post there. I mostly follow close friends because I honestly don't really care about the stories of people I don't know. - Instagram: Posting pictures that I think look nice. Often that are pictures that I took with my DSLR and edited on my laptop. I also follow a lot of people I don't know but who I think take nice pictures.

Therefore I don't see me using Instagram Stories anytime soon because

1. Snapchat already has that feature and they probably implemented it better, 2. the content on Instagram is simply different than the one on Snapchat (more high-quality instead of the quick and dirty Snaps).

If I wouldn't have Snapchat and they brought Stories to one of their Messaging apps I might have used it. But Instagram? No chance. It would be interesting to know how other people use these apps (if at all). I realise that I'm probably younger than most people here so my experience might differ quite bit.

[armandososa]

That's easy. Instagram is a cooler brand among the same demographic that is crazy about snapchat.

[tedmiston]

Can't speak for everyone but my followers on Instagram are quite different from my Facebook friends. Over half of them I don't know personally. Besides the fact that my account is public, I think this impacts what I would post on there vs Snapchat significantly.

[tdkl]

WhatsApp and Messenger aren't "broadcast first", which Snapchat and Instagram are.