Monday, August 22, 2016

What lifestage, the Facebook app dedicated to under 21 – Wired.it

Short clips to tell and set up a unique biography, to be delighted to share with friends and peers

 (Photo: Facebook)

(Photo: Facebook)

what Facebook has failed to maintain a hold on the latest generation is not new: today’s twenty-five are probably the last that they consider to Menlo Park as the social network par excellence. Younger keep him active mainly because it would be considered strange but, given the presence of parents, teachers, and adults of various kinds, are careful condividervi the most intimate aspects of their daily lives. For this reason, Mark Zuckerberg’s company has launched these days lifestage, an app devoted exclusively to users under 21 that allows them to freely upload their content and only make them visible to an audience of peers .

 (Photo: Facebook)

(Photo: Facebook)

at the moment only available for iOS, lifestage it has been created and developed by Michael Sayman, 19 year-old Facebook product manager who returned to full in the demographic profile of the audience that the social network in blue now prefer platforms like Snapchat.

the points lifestage has in common with the ephemeral messaging app, however, are few: the platform does not include a system for the direct exchange of messages, indeed born to put some kind of video sharing dense profile of information, with an audience of friends and classmates and universities. With Snapchat, lifestage shares being geared to a young audience, but otherwise can be defined as an experiment halfway between Vine – the main means of sharing are short video clips – and a personal blog, with aspects borrowed from Ask.fm loan: the inspiration for clips in fact comes from a range of biographical questions where members can respond to enrich their profile.

 (Photo: Facebook)

(Photo: Facebook )

as Instagram, the app is disconnected from Facebook, but unlike the photo platform its use foresees restrictions . Meanwhile, parents and people over 21 years old can only publish content, without peeking those of the other members is in the creation of this artificial barrier that the creator Michael Sayman hopes to attract the attention of users flowed naturally about Snapchat. Also at the time of the people will be invited to choose their school of origin, and can view other profiles only if at least 20 classmates will become part of the social network.

Being able to enforce these guidelines is announced difficult: the new social network has no way to verify the personal data of new members carefully and to do so will have to count on the help of its own users . For this to Facebook ensure that the tools to report suspicious and illegal activities or abusive registrations will be abundant and held in high esteem: the success of this system will be critical to the entire platform.

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