Dan Pražák The popularity of Instagram has skyrocketed in recent years, especially among the younger group of users. It is therefore not surprising that Mark Zuckerberg, who owns Instagram along with Facebook and Whatsapp, is constantly trying to enrich the social network with new functions. According to new reports, it plans to fold part of Instagram into a new application Threads and thus divide it into two parts.
The main purpose will again be to copy the popular features of Snapchat and offer them in a separate application. Threads are supposed to combine messages on Instagram (Direct) with functions aimed at close friends. Users will be able to, for example, share their location with their chosen friends, publish photos, videos and Stories for them and, of course, communicate with them through messages. Threads could work similar to Messenger and Facebook in relation to Instagram, but with a few extra features.
The first screenshots from the Threads app:
However, the interesting thing is that most of the shared data should be updated automatically in the application. On the list of close friends, users will see not only your current location, but also, for example, information about whether you are on the road (in motion), or whether you are sitting with other friends in a cafe, etc.
Currently, the application is still in the early stages of development and therefore most of the features are still missing. Ultimately, however, its main role will be to automatically communicate the most up-to-date information about you to your closest friends. However, the core of Threads is supposed to be messages, i.e. the Direct feature from Instagram.
Mark Zuckerberg has done it before shared his plans to unite Instagram, Facebook and Whatsapp into one application with an emphasis on direct communication between people. Whether right now Threads will they be the mentioned connection of social networks falling under Facebook, remains only a question for now. Perhaps in the end Zuckerberg decided to focus on Instagram, which to some extent competes with Snapchat and therefore still tends to recruit new users.
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Petr Škuta Source: The Verge
