What Is Facebook Stories?
With new technology, comes new opportunities. Following the increased popularity of the “story format” originated by Snapchat, Facebook roll-out their own in-app version called “Facebook Stories”. Going against the social media norm of preserving and saving moments, Facebook Stories take a much more temporary approach and allow its users to generate photo and video collections that can be viewed up to two times and disappear after 24 hours.
While posting content that will only last for one...
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