{"id":94255,"date":"2016-11-21T12:19:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T20:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=94255"},"modified":"2016-11-21T12:25:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T20:25:14","slug":"another-instagram-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/another-instagram-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram&#8217;s Newest Update Outdoes Snapchat&#8230;Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>PHOTOS COURTESY OF\u00a0<em>MASHABLE<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>Instagram&#8217;s newest update shows that the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/instagram-story-tips\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stories<\/a>&#8221; feature wasn&#8217;t their only attempt <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/11\/21\/instagram-live-video-update\/?utm_cid=hp-hh-pri#nVUd6h2BYiqp\" target=\"_blank\">at making Snapchat irrelevant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The social media platform is now adding disappearing messaging features to Instagram Direct. Similar to Snapchat, users can now snap photos and videos (from the &#8220;Stories&#8221; camera), and send messages to other users which will disappear after the recipient views\u00a0the message. Users will also be notified if their message was replayed or if they took a screenshot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/fff-blog\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/21120642\/https-%252F%252Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fuploads%252Fcard%252Fimage%252F291004%252Finsta_direct.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-94284\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/fff-blog\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/21120642\/https-%252F%252Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fuploads%252Fcard%252Fimage%252F291004%252Finsta_direct.jpg\" alt=\"https-%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F291004%2Finsta_direct\" width=\"600\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/21120642\/https-%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F291004%2Finsta_direct.jpg 800w, https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/21120642\/https-%252F%252Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fuploads%252Fcard%252Fimage%252F291004%252Finsta_direct-248x222.jpg 248w, https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/21120642\/https-%252F%252Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fuploads%252Fcard%252Fimage%252F291004%252Finsta_direct-257x230.jpg 257w, https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/21120642\/https-%252F%252Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fuploads%252Fcard%252Fimage%252F291004%252Finsta_direct-610x547.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can distinguish the disappearing messages with your standard direct messages by referring to outlines around users&#8217; icons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/fff-blog\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/21120957\/https-%252F%252Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fuploads%252Fcard%252Fimage%252F291006%252Ffe1023cbe8d04954989c073c3b027ccd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-94285\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/fff-blog\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/21120957\/https-%252F%252Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fuploads%252Fcard%252Fimage%252F291006%252Ffe1023cbe8d04954989c073c3b027ccd.jpg\" alt=\"https-%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F291006%2Ffe1023cbe8d04954989c073c3b027ccd\" width=\"600\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/21120957\/https-%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F291006%2Ffe1023cbe8d04954989c073c3b027ccd.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/21120957\/https-%252F%252Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fuploads%252Fcard%252Fimage%252F291006%252Ffe1023cbe8d04954989c073c3b027ccd-290x101.jpg 290w, https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/21120957\/https-%252F%252Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fuploads%252Fcard%252Fimage%252F291006%252Ffe1023cbe8d04954989c073c3b027ccd-300x104.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/21120957\/https-%252F%252Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fuploads%252Fcard%252Fimage%252F291006%252Ffe1023cbe8d04954989c073c3b027ccd-610x211.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Instagram will also be adding a live video feature in the coming weeks, which you can also record with your &#8220;Stories&#8221; camera. There will be a &#8220;live&#8221; section for you to stream a video &#8212; it&#8217;s extremely similar to Facebook Live!<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of the new update? Will you stay loyal to Snapchat or completely switch over to Instagram? Let us know in the comments below!<\/p>\n<p>xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"PHOTOS COURTESY OF\u00a0MASHABLE Instagram's newest update shows that the \"Stories\" feature wasn't their only attempt ...","author":1557554,"featured_media":94286,"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\/11\/21121456\/shutterstock_461255074-660x400.jpg","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/21121456\/shutterstock_461255074.jpg","formated_date":"November 21, 2016","category_name":"News","category_icon":"https:\/\/d3vodd1ws13xud.cloudfront.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10113842\/news.svg","author_name":"","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#c13626","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94255"}],"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\/1557554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}