Facebook News & Updates: New Teens-Only App 'Lifestage': Designed To Counteract The Snapchat?
Lifestage, has now arrived on the Android. The teens-only app by Facebook is the app to connect a larger social network even the ones outside Facebook.
The app is limited to teens more technically to young ones with ages 21 and below. Some may be wondering why create Lifestage when Facebook have around 1.7 billion users as according to Android Police. With this billion of users not many are teenagers and that users with the ages of 13 to 19 years old prefers Snapchat or Instagram.
Facebook released this first in iOS devices in August and now it arrived in Android app. This extended the market to a larger scale when it comes to teenagers.
Some of you are probably familiar and is using the Snapchat app, it is easy to use and this Lifestage app by Facebook would engage the users in similar ways. According to TechCrunch, there are bio questions that users must answer that will lead to another question and if you update your profile you will get a sunglasses-smile emoji and failure to update would make it turn into a frown or poop emoji, encouraging all users to update their profile as often as possible.
Lifestage also allows third-party creation of profile filters and it allows users to show of their likes and dislikes into their profile mainly because there is this ever changing taste or preferences of the younger ones. Although this is the way of Facebook to extend their market more to teenagers, comparing to other social apps, it only have a narrower audience as it blocks users of some ages.
Facebook company also tested, Facebook Stories, a Snapchat clone, and another Snapchat clone called Messenger Day according to TechCrunch. Lifestage then, the app by Facebook, is just one of the collections of apps that will compete with Snapchat.
