I like Snapchat. The face filters are pretty fun and the inability to like others’ posts takes away (some of) the incentive to post excessive self-portraits and fish for self-validation. But I don’t need two Snapchat accounts and Instagram’s latest story feature kind of makes it feel like that.
All social media platforms start to blend into each other and feel the same after awhile anyways, but the thing is Instagram stories aren’t just like Snapchat, they’re pretty much a copy of Snapchat.
Balancing multiple social media accounts is just a skill that most millennials have mastered but it gets confusing when the platforms start to overlap and each one isn’t unique anymore. What’s the point in keeping up with all of them when they start doing the same thing?
Until Instagram comes with its own set of face-distorting filters, I’ll just stick to Snapchat. But if they do adopt their own set of face-distorting filters I’ll probably still be frustrated at their lack of originality and still stick to Snapchat.
