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title: Instagram Stories are Awesome
date: 2016-08-04T21:41:00+00:00
modified: 2016-08-04T21:51:16+00:00
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  name: Kaspars
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category:
  - Observatory
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  - Aside
post_tag:
  - User Interface
---

# Instagram Stories are Awesome

I never really understood Snapchat, mostly because of the confusing UI that relies on swiping and clicking on things that don’t look like buttons. I never liked the style of snaps either — bad photos, lots of emojis and random rotated words. I’m old, right?

![I like Instagram Stories more than Snapchat and Beme](https://kaspars.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/instagram-stories-love.jpg?strip=all&quality=90&resize=720,1280)

However, I do like [Instagram Stories](http://blog.instagram.com/post/148348940287/160802-stories) because they are tiny little sequences of videos that tell a story (at least in my feed). It feels like a nice alternative to [Beme](https://beme.com/) and will probably get a lot of people interested in video blogging.