{"id":4965,"date":"2017-03-28T09:54:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T14:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/?p=4965"},"modified":"2017-03-28T09:54:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T14:54:39","slug":"facebook-launches-stories-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2017\/03\/28\/facebook-launches-stories-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Launches Stories Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FacebookIt seems like all the major social platforms are working day and night to copy each other’s features. Lately, it seems they all have their sights set on the newly-public Snapchat, who launched their stories feature ages ago. Instagram soon followed, \u00a0and this week the mighty Facebook is launching a story feature.<\/p>\n

Stories are not a new concept\u00a0– users can now post images, videos, and more to a “story” as opposed to their news feed. These are intended to be ephemeral, lasting a few hours or a day, and then the disappear. Users can send these to all their friends, or like Snapchat and Instagram, direct them a specific user.<\/p>\n

Facebook will allow drawing, stickers, and more to be added to photos. Facebook’s spin on the story will include a feature they are calling “masks,” which is a lift of Snapchat’s filters feature. Snapchat’s filters are fun but they have some pretty serious science<\/a> behind them. Here are a few examples of masks Facebook will ship:<\/p>\n

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As you can see, they will be heavily advertiser focused. In the example above, you can see an Aliens move tie-in, Minions, and Guardians of the Galaxy. These IPs all have new movies coming out this summer. After all, Facebook is an advertising company, first and foremost.<\/p>\n

Here’s what I thought when I saw this news this morning. If every platform and tool has an ephemeral stories feature, then none of them do. My time is limited, and now I have to think about what platform I should or need to post my stories on. None of them? All of them? Where do I reach the most amount of people?<\/p>\n

For example, for some reason, I have a huge following on Snapchat. Literally tens of thousands. I post stories there and they do well with many views. Now, with Facebook launching stories, will that audience erode? Do I have to post the same content on Facebook where I reach less people, or do I focus my limited energies on the platforms where I already have brand value?<\/p>\n

And that’s me as an individual. This is going to add a whole new layer of complexity for brands, institutions, and companies. They will need to decide where it makes sense for them to spend their time and resources to reach their key audiences as well. The Verge<\/a> says this:<\/p>\n

Where to post your daily story now becomes a daily concern for a certain subset of youngish, social media-savvy people. Facebook says stories belong everywhere that people are talking online, but what if the format is a fad? And what if forcing it on users across its entire family of app leads to a general fatigue with the idea? The company says each of its apps has a distinctive audience, and I believe it. But there\u2019s also plenty of overlap. There\u2019s a risk here that Facebook\u2019s mania for stories will be interpreted as overkill by its users, and the feature will ultimately fade into the background. (This happened with live video!)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This stories war has the potential to also create confusion among users. If Facebook puts a large amount of attention and advertising around the Stories feature, will that slowly decrease the amount of news feed posts people and brands are doing?\u00a0Will brands want to spend money to promote their posts to news feeds if the traffic isn’t there to see it?<\/p>\n

Personally, I’m all for stories if it stops people posting freebooted videos<\/a> and “inspirational” quotes on their news feeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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