This isn\u2019t the first time Facebook has tried to copy Snapchat<\/em><\/strong>, but it has usually been in a separate app like Slingshot and Poke. Or a revamped camera buried in the News Feed. Now with this feature being top and center of the feed, it will be impossible for users to ignore and just like they did with Instagram, they will adapt and use this feature to show off to their friends on Facebook as well.<\/p>\n

Snapchat really should\u2019ve looked into patenting Stories, before letting Zuckerberg at it for two of his social platforms. I am sure that the CEO of Snap (Snapchats parent company), Evan Spiegel isn\u2019t too happy about this. Especially since he is looking into taking the company public<\/strong> and the user growth expectations will definitely be a metric that the investors will be looking at. To have two HUGE social networks<\/strong> like Facebook (1.2 Billion users) and Instagram (300 million users daily) copying their best features every chance they get has to be unsettling.<\/p>\n

How do you feel about this new clone of Snapchat? Will you use Facebook Stories? Are you going to add it to your Facebook Marketing Strategy? Leave a comment below and let us know your thoughts.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Facebook Did It AGAIN! Facebook Stories It looks like it wasn\u2019t enough that Instagram copied Snapchat with Feature \u201cStories\u201d (short video clips or photos generated by the user that only stick around for 24 hours, then disappears), Facebook had to hop on board too! Facebook is now \u201ctesting\u201d its own version of Snapchat Stories at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-media-marketing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seowebfirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seowebfirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seowebfirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seowebfirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seowebfirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.seowebfirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"https:\/\/www.seowebfirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seowebfirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seowebfirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seowebfirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seowebfirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}