It currently has a 2.5 star rating and some users called it “confusing”, “creepy” and “pointless”. If the early reviews on the App store are anything to go by, this could be another app which could end up in the Facebook trash can. If not, you could become a victim of a scam that clones your Facebook account to hijack your friends computers and personal information, according to the Better Business Bureau. Messages are how you interact on a more personal level but for now they are omitted from Lifestage. Lifestage also does not support text messaging which is another interesting gamble considering how big messages are on all of these story telling platforms at the moment. It appears that Facebook realises how important teens are when shaping technology, so what is your best chance to try win a generation? Limit your app to exclusively to that generation. Snapchat was never limited to a certain age group though. I have said in the past that Snapchat has won a generation and when that happens everyone else gets dragged down into it. Now you can of course lie about your age and get access but it is an interesting move by Facebook to limit the app to teenagers. The real interesting part is that the app is closed to anyone over the age of 21. The difference seems to be that the videos don’t disappear after 24 hours and if you have visit a friends profile to see their video clips.

It works by taking a video, slap a picture frame design on top that represents a category or emotion such as like or dislike and post it to the app. Of course, this makes the account look like you, and the crook will try and make friends with people you know to try and trick them. It happens when a crook creates a new Facebook account, but they use your name and your profile picture. It looks and works a lot like Snapchat, it is basically another carbon copy of Snapchat. Facebook cloning is one of the most popular types of scams on the Internet’s largest social networking. The messages will usually say something along the lines of 'Please register to claim your prize' with a link to a website that will no doubt ask for personal details, perhaps even bank details or. Lifestage has been launched by the social network and is available to download from the App Store. Scammers are cloning Facebook business pages by using their username and profile picture or logo and direct messaging followers of that brands page. Obviously though that wasn’t enough and once again they are going after teens with a new app. However they seem to be onto something and the results have been pretty decent so far. Recently, Instagram which is owned by Facebook, shamelessly ripped off the stories part of Snapchat and slapped it in their own Instagram app. Over the past number of years Facebook has released and then shut down teen centric apps such as Slingshot and Poke.

Facebook is now a website we tend to visit simply because that is where most of us are.īut Facebook wants to be cool, they want to be the place to be and as Snapchat surges ahead, Facebook is trying anything to pull up alongside them. Even my dear mother no longer has much of an interest in Facebook and prefers Instagram.

Facebook is no longer considered cool by well…anyone.

Your facebook was no clone