Social Media Stories Ranked
By: Sam Petralia
Tags: Twitter, Spotify, Humor, Social Media, Technology

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Twitter and Spotify recently announced their stories feature. This release is exactly what the public needed, our brain chemical levels were finally returning to normal and needed to be upended again. Silicon Valley truly never misses.

What are stories?

If you don’t know then this article probably isn't for you. But I define them as

… quick form content that disappears within 24 hours.

Surprisingly, this innovative feature isn’t new and twitter is joining an established group. Here is my list of all new and existing social media stories

Social Media Stories Ranked

1. Snapchat

All hail the OG.

Snapchat was the first to do stories and they really crushed it. They gave us drawing tools, then location filters, followed by shitty photoshop, and the precursor to only fans favorite tool, face filters.

Snap stories were so raw and unrefined. There is something way funnier about the snap chat text captions than any other format.

Ignorance is bliss, and everyone was for sure blissful.

Soon stories became more important and with that came the downfall of snap. The distracted youth migrated to more aesthetic pastures.

2. Instagram

Sticks and stones may break my bones… but insta stories destroy my brain

Instagram took stories and turned them into weaponized social resumes. I'll be the first to admit, I am truly addicted. Watching and navigating through useless content has never been easier.

In contrast to Snapchat, Instagram stories have increased importance. For better or worst, Insta stories define you and are a representation of your brand.

Posting a story is now just as significant as a normal post was a few years ago. This results in less posting, but more anxiety and a need for social approval when a user does post.

From a product perspective, Instagram stories are the GOAT for the following reasons

Advertisements : Truly the best, Instagram knows exactly what I need and makes it pretty

: Truly the best, Instagram knows exactly what I need and makes it pretty Look: Users are now trained to create symmetrical posts with perfect fonts and gifs

Users are now trained to create symmetrical posts with perfect fonts and gifs Interaction : Instragam took responding and cranked it up to 10 with polling, auto emoji reactions, and questions

: Instragam took responding and cranked it up to 10 with polling, auto emoji reactions, and questions Location: It's now a requirement whenever you go somewhere that you throw up a location tag to bat signal any nearby friends or babes to slide into your DMs

It's now a requirement whenever you go somewhere that you throw up a location tag to bat signal any nearby friends or babes to slide into your DMs Reposting: Have you ever seen a girl's story on her birthday?

Have you ever seen a girl's story on her birthday? Integrations: Music, websites, and much more all within a click

3. Linkedin

hahahaha

Admittedly, the stories feature in Linkedin hasn’t been used much yet. But I am holding out hope we’ll see something promising in 2021.

Linkedin is by far my favorite social media. It boasts creators with the lowest possible self-awareness index scores.

Remember that kid in high school that never stopped hitting you up about a super exciting business opportunity for a month straight? Turns out later that he got suckered into some MLM and lost $5k walking door to door trying to sell knives.

Now take that same kid 20 years later and give him the task of creating an inspirational story and life lesson in 10 minutes… before he starts his workday… every day.

The result is truly a fantastic cringe-fest.