Search recover the original spirit of the social network, linking high school students, but with a focus on home videos; is one of the tools the company to compete with Snapchat and retain younger users
Facebook launched this weekend lifestage, an application only suitable for children under 21 years and is currently only available in the United States for iPhones.
While technically anyone can download the application, those who They claim that their age is 22 or more can only see your own profile, since the application is intended for high school and the start of college.
what would make Michael Sayman, the creator of the application (19 years old, and Peruvian and Bolivian parents) was “taking Facebook com era in 2004 and bring it to 2016″, he told the specialized site TechCrunch.
After logging in -process for you need not have an account on Facebook-, the user selects his school and then can watch the videos of profile of people in your school or other nearby; for this, the school in question must have at least 20 members registered in the application.
Once logged in, it’s time to make a profile, with the name and a second section with ways to connect with the user as Instagram or Snapchat (application fashionable among adolescents, and the main challenge for the future of Facebook).
When the user already has the profile, you must upload three videos with personal information on to tell what he likes, what he dislikes, put a smiley face or indicate how the dancing, then these clips are converted into video profile that others can see.
on the main screen of the application there, like in Snapchat, a kind of timeline to publications that make contacts. And a number informs the score user based on activity within the social network. The more you interact, the more it rises through the ranks of network
The brand new application, the date of arrival the Argentina still unknown, it is according to several analysts a new attempt to stop the growth of Snapchat, the social network of ephemeral messaging seduces younger.
Recently, Facebook added a number of developments in Instagram similar to those that already had Snapchat, like Stories, a feature to share the times of day that do not necessarily want to keep in the profile pictures and videos disappear after 24 hours and are not published on the front page of the application.
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