{"id":398304,"date":"2017-09-12T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/09\/12\/instagram-direct-is-a-new-way-to-share-stories\/21|23205516"},"modified":"2017-09-12T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T14:00:00","slug":"instagram-direct-is-a-new-way-to-share-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/instagram-direct-is-a-new-way-to-share-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram Direct is a new way to share Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Though Instagram’s Stories is already more popular<\/a> than Snapchat, the photo-sharing service won’t stop introducing more ways to share them. In May, it introduced location and hashtag Stories<\/a> so they popped up more in Explore. Now, Instagram is taking it a step further and will now allow you to share other people<\/em>‘s Stories through Direct messages.<\/p>\n

Sharing a Story is as simple as sharing a normal Instagram photo. Simply tap a direct icon at the bottom right, choose who you want to send the Story to, and hit send. Of course, as a Story only exists for 24 hours, the recipient had better check it quick before it goes away.<\/p>\n

Instagram describes this as a relatively harmless feature that lets people share interesting Stories in DMs. But it sounds a little creepy, especially if you tend to think of your Stories as intended only for your followers, not other people.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, Instagram has included an opt-out in settings, and if you have a Private account, only your followers will be able to see the Story through Direct messages. The feature is rolling out globally starting today, to both iOS and Android.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Though Instagram’s Stories is already more popular than Snapchat, the photo-sharing service won’t stop introducing more ways to share them. In May, it introduced location and hashtag Stories so they popped up more in Explore. Now, Instagram is taking it a step further and will now allow you to share other people‘s Stories through Direct […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":398305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,59,26],"class_list":["post-398304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-engadget","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}