{"id":85578,"date":"2016-08-02T11:16:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T18:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=85578"},"modified":"2016-08-02T11:16:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T18:16:54","slug":"instagram-new-my-story-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/instagram-new-my-story-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Instagram&#8217;s New Feature Strikingly Similar to Snapchat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.instagram.com\/post\/148348940287\/160802-stories\" target=\"_blank\">announced a new feature<\/a> today called &#8220;Instagram Stories&#8221; &#8212; and it&#8217;s pretty similar to Snapchat&#8217;s &#8220;My Story&#8221; feature.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/static-blog.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/02105503\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-02-at-10.52.25-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\" size-full wp-image-85586 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static-blog.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/02105503\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-02-at-10.52.25-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-08-02 at 10.52.25 AM\" width=\"682\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Instagram Stories&#8221; enables users to compile photos and videos into a single stream &#8220;to share everyday moments.&#8221; Users have the option to draw and add text over\u00a0their posts and the story disappears after 24 hours. Whenever a user adds new content to their story, a colored ring appears around their profile photo!<\/p>\n<p>Users can\u00a0view stories from accounts\u00a0they follow where\u00a0it&#8217;ll appear at the top of their feed. Just like Snapchat, you can message users on individual posts in the story and skip through posts or swipe through different users&#8217; stories.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fabfitfun\/\" target=\"_blank\">@fabfitfun<\/a>&#8216;s first Instagram story!<\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts on the new feature? Let us know in the comments below!<\/p>\n<p>xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"Instagram announced a new feature today called \"Instagram Stories\" -- and it's pretty similar to ...","author":422344,"featured_media":85588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[269,185],"tags":[],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/02110422\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-02-at-11.01.21-AM.jpg","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/02110422\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-02-at-11.01.21-AM.jpg","formated_date":"August 2, 2016","category_name":"News","category_icon":"https:\/\/d3vodd1ws13xud.cloudfront.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10113842\/news.svg","author_name":"Monica Chang","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#f4d3a8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/422344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}