Facebook courts teenagers with video story app Lifestage
Facebook has launched a new app, Lifestage, designed for people aged 21 and under to turn their life story into a video profile.
The standalone iOS app has been created by a teenager, Facebook’s 19-year-old product manager Michael Sayman, to appeal to teenagers migrating from Facebook to more youth-friendly Snapchat.
Sayman met with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg two years ago after catching the attention of the tech giant through the creation of a number of popular apps, most notably 4Snaps. Sayman made his first app aged 13. Soon after meeting Zuckerberg, Sayman was offered a job at Facebook. Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
