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My personal experience with a couple of these apps:

* Snapchat Stories is used by real people to, well, share stories with friends.

* Instagram Stories is flooded with "influencers" peddling diet teas and other shady products.

Is this the case for anyone else?


I´ve noticed the same things. It´s amazing how many influencers are using Instagram as their main platform. I guess it´s really the mix of posting pictures but also the interaction with the audience on the same platform. They also tend to comment on their pictures in the story - which is quite interesting. They can drive traffic to their content by engaging with the audience "personally". And that all in the same app. I am looking forward to the days when Snapchat is properly adopted and used. In my opinion, there´s great potential behind it. People are yet to discover that though.


IG stories is a cesspool just like the meme and gif spam that ruined facebooks newss feed


thats the best thing about stories and was the best thing about Snapchat: you weren't forced to look and this was counterweighted with the limited lifespan of the content.


No because I unfollowed / muted influencers and now pretty much only see what my friends and family post.

Just with better user experience than awful Snapchat.


I don't follow "influencers" so the ig stories I see are just my friends. Snapchat on the other hand has the "featured" section, not that I ever watch that stuff.


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