I'm starting to love Instagram Stories more than Snapchat because I'm incredibly thirsty

[NelsonG]

Instagram and Snapchat are basically the same thing now, with one major difference: Everyone you know is on the first, and not the second. 

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I know, Snapchat is cool—the superior offering, really—but it's true. Instagram, quickly becoming the dad-rock of social media, has 300 million daily users versus 158 million on Snapchat. I didn't think this mattered until Snapchat shot itself in the foot with a small but significant update recently.

It's all to do with Stories, which work similarly on each platform. Basically, you take a picture or short video and post it under your profile, where your followers—all of them, or a select group, depending on your settings—can watch it for a span of 24 hours.  Read more...

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