{"id":343369,"date":"2017-08-09T07:49:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T07:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=343369"},"modified":"2017-08-09T07:49:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T07:49:04","slug":"facebooks-app-for-under-21s-lifestage-flops-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/08\/facebooks-app-for-under-21s-lifestage-flops-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook&#8217;s app for under-21s Lifestage flops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Facebook has killed off a video-focused app targeted at under-21s less than a year after it was launched.<\/p>\n<p>Lifestage was designed to connect students going to the same school or university, making all of their posts available to each other.<\/p>\n<p>But it faced criticism for having limited privacy controls and a &#8220;confusing&#8221; user interface.<\/p>\n<p>The firm\u00a0told Business Insider\u00a0it had &#8220;learned a lot&#8221; from the app and would feed this into Facebook itself.<\/p>\n<p>Lifestage was developed by a product manager who was a teenager himself when it became available on the iOS App Store in late August 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Members were encouraged to answer personal questions by filming video replies and were rewarded with emoji graphics for doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Users were supposed to be under 21 to see others&#8217; profiles, but the software could be fooled into providing access if older members typed in false birth dates.<\/p>\n<p>The app expanded to Android in October 2016 but never achieved mass adoption.<\/p>\n<p>It joins a lengthening list of other cancelled apps from the firm, which includes:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Groups &#8211; a standalone way to engage with common-interest communities and to arrange events with families and friends<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Poke &#8211; a means to send messages to friends that disappeared after 10 seconds<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Slingshot &#8211; a messaging service that let users draw on top of the photos and videos they sent to each other<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Paper &#8211; a newsreading app whose design principles formed the basis for\u00a0Facebook&#8217;s Instant Articles<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Notify &#8211; a way to set up news story notifications from dozens of publishers<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Riff &#8211; a video-sharing service in which users could build on the clips made by their friends<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Rooms &#8211; a discussion app that let members share thoughts and media without revealing their true identities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has killed off a video-focused app targeted at under-21s less than a year after it was launched. 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