Facebook kills off Messenger Day stories feature, replacing it with Facebook Stories inside Messenger, and kills off Facebook Direct ephemeral messaging
Facebook simplifies Stories with design makeover Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Facebook Announces Merging of Messenger Day and Facebook Stories, Adds New Stories Tools Sai Krishna / Fone Arena : Facebook merges Messenger day with Stories for synced cross-posting Carl Velasco / Tech Times : Facebook Kills Messenger Day, Merges It With Facebook Stories Mitja Rutnik / Android Authority : Facebook merges Stories and Messenger Day PYMNTS.com : Facebook Adds Group Stories Brittany A. Roston / SlashGear : Messenger Day nixed as Facebook pushes Stories feature Inés Casserly / The Next Web : Facebook merges Messenger Day with its core Stories feature Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : Facebook brings support for collaborative Stories to Events & Groups Michael Allison / MSPoweruser : Facebook is merging Stories and Messenger day Dani Deahl / The Verge : Facebook is killing Messenger Day and consolidating it with Facebook as Stories Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott.com : Facebook Is Making Changes to Stories after Slow User Adoption Karissa Bell / Mashable : Stories are about to invade your Facebook News Feed in a major way Chelsea Hassler / POPSUGAR Living : It's About to Get a Whole Lot Easier to Use Stories For Everything You Do on Facebook Mariella Moon / Engadget : Facebook merges Stories and Messenger Day Tweets: Jan Dawson / @jandawson : Good reminder that for all the success of Instagram Stories, it was mostly a rare fluke in a sea of failed attempts to compete with Snapchat... http://twitter.com/... Josh Constine / @joshconstine : Facebook is clearly dead serious about Stories. Merging Fb & Messenger Stories, launching on Fb Lite, opening collaborative Stories for Events and Groups. The war on Snapchat is just getting started http://techcrunch.com/... Josh Constine / @joshconstine : Facebook merges Stories with Messenger Day, but kills off Facebook Direct ephemeral messaging. I'd bet Messenger gets its own ephemeral chat feature soon, so Snap isn't out of hot water http://techcrunch.com/... tip @techmeme M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler : VOMDD - Victory Over Messenger Day Day http://twitter.com/... Josh Constine / @joshconstine : Facebook is combining Stories with features Snapchat doesn't have. Collaborative Stories for Events and Groups could act like private hashtags. Bet it'll be a hit for weddings http://tcrn.ch/2hvzQrT Casey Newton / @caseynewton : What a mess: “The cameras in Facebook and Messenger will remain distinct, with Facebook's focused on augmented reality masks and effects, while Messenger focuses on adding captions and stylized text inviting friends to hang out.” http://twitter.com/... Casey Newton / @caseynewton : But: Messenger Day was a horrible product that often tricked people into sharing private images publicly and I'm glad it's dead Thanks: @joshconstine