Snapchat's Stories is such a popular feature that it forced Instagram and Facebook Messenger to provide their users with similar ones services. Now, Facebook too seems to be adopting a similar Stories feature, among others.
Facebook Stories will appear at the top of your News Feed and consist of videos and photos that you have in common with your friends. Facebook Stories will appear there for 24 hours, but not in your Timeline or News Feed, unless you want to post it there.
To add a story to Facebook Stories, you just need to tap on icon "Your Story" or "your story" that exists on line Stories that (will) appear at the top of your News Feed.
Bad Fails, Facebook Stories could upset some users as it will be the first thing you'll see at the top of your News Feed, whether you want it or not.
Facebook added a new feature called Direct. The tool will allow users to share individual pictures or videos with their friends, and which can only be shown once.
Then the image or video will be deleted. Needless to say, Facebook's Direct feature is similar to Snapchat's in that it does essentially the same thing and even has roughly the same ui.
In addition, Facebook completely redesigned the camera and added many effects such as masks, frames and interactive effects.
Facebook also said it will add new creative effects to the camera in the coming months. The new features have already started rolling out to its users applications Facebook on Android and iOS, just a few weeks after the information of its Messenger app with a similar feature.