{"id":1018,"date":"2023-02-23T14:23:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T14:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cubmpd.ca\/storytellers\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2023-02-16T14:27:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T14:27:39","slug":"part-5-with-facebook-instagram-and-twitter-in-crisis-a-new-generation-of-apps-emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cubmpd.ca\/storytellers\/2023\/02\/23\/part-5-with-facebook-instagram-and-twitter-in-crisis-a-new-generation-of-apps-emerges\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 5 \u2013 With Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter in Crisis, A New Generation of Apps Emerges"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ariel Aarenau<\/b><\/span><\/h6>\n
Dec 19, 2022 (published February 23, 2023) \u00b7 5 min read<\/span><\/h6>\n

[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_5″ _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_social_media_follow _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_orientation=”right” min_height=”55px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_social_media_follow_network social_network=”linkedin” url=”https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/arielaarenau\/” _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#007bb6″ global_colors_info=”{}” follow_button=”off” url_new_window=”on”]linkedin[\/et_pb_social_media_follow_network][\/et_pb_social_media_follow][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_css_main_element=”font-family: Inter;||font-style: normal;||font-weight: normal;||font-size: 20px;||line-height: 170%;||\/* or 34px *\/||||||color: #FFFFFF;” global_colors_info=”{}”]With Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter each in a state of disrepair, it should be no surprise that competitors are not just emerging but taking off. <\/p>\n

The first and most prominent competitor is TikTok, an international version of Douyin, which was released in the Chinese market in September 2016 (Shu, 2020). TikTok was then released worldwide following a merger of its parent company with Musical.ly on August 2, 2018. The short-form video app began to reach substantial market share in early 2020 and subsequently experienced a meteoric rise during the Covid-19 pandemic. TikTok has since announced that it has surpassed one billion users as of September 2021 (Lyons, 2021).<\/p>\n

A second competitor is BeReal. Still in its infancy, the app was released in 2020 (Davis, 2022) and has started becoming popular just this year (Fischer, 2022). As of late August 2022, the social media app has over 10 million daily active users (Hutchinson, 2022) and 21.6 million monthly active users (Klingert, 2022). In July of 2022, the non-curated, authenticity-first photo sharing app hit the number one spot on the Apple Appstore in the U.S. (Ortiz, 2022).<\/p>\n

While TikTok and BeReal are in two very different leagues, both have made a significant imprint on the social media landscape. TikTok\u2019s success is historic (Perez, 2021) and BeReal is seemingly in the midst of a breakthrough (Brown & James, 2022). The social media space once dominated by Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter now has TikTok as a major competitor and likely has BeReal as a formidable future opponent. Much like how Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter broke into the market, TikTok and BeReal came equipped with a clear storytelling purpose, supporting features that are unique and\/or differentiated from the rest of the market, and a set of creative constraints to fuel that purpose. TikTok filled a void left by Vine in short-form video and combined an interest graph with built-in constraints including length of video, vertical formatting, and mobile focus. BeReal is removing the angst and anxiety found within photo-sharing on Instagram and is adding in a plethora of creative constraints that make for a unique storytelling experience (Newton, 2022). Creative constraints within BeReal include simultaneous front and back camera usage, limited ability to post, defined aspect ratio, and the photos only media format. It is as if the founders of both apps read my last four posts and set out to create an app with that information in mind. The context of my posts alongside the rise of TikTok and BeReal almost makes it seem like creating a successful social media app is easy. This, of course, is not the case.<\/p>\n

To better understand the complexity and delicateness of social media storytelling and the affordances of TikTok and BeReal, I interviewed two fellow BMPD students, Lea and Alicia. Lea is a successful fashion and lifestyle-based content creator with over 20,000 followers on TikTok. Her previous collaborators include SKIMS and Merit Beauty (Bitzanis, 2022). Alicia is an active BeReal user who has posted on the platform every day since joining the app in July 2022.[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/cubmpd.ca\/storytellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/10.png” title_text=”10″ _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_css_main_element=”font-family: Inter;||font-style: normal;||font-weight: normal;||font-size: 20px;||line-height: 170%;||\/* or 34px *\/||||||color: #FFFFFF;” global_colors_info=”{}”]In conversation with Lea and Alicia, a few key themes became increasingly clear:<\/p>\n

1) A social media app should avoid launching features that deviate from its founding purpose<\/p>\n

2) Constraints breed creativity (Onarheim & Biskj\u00e6r, 2013), are fundamental to the storytelling experience, and make the social media app unique\/differentiated<\/p>\n

3) A social media app can remove and\/or lessen the impact of its creative constraints as long as it does not disconnect the app from its purpose<\/p>\n

Both Lea and Alicia have accounts on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. When reflecting on their relationship with these apps in comparison to TikTok and BeReal, they concluded that these apps were filling a void, offering a differentiated experience, and numbing the discontent they felt in their relationships with Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. In particular, Lea and Alicia identified Instagram as their old favourite app. They both felt that Instagram\u2019s move to an algorithmically generating feed was disconnected from its roots as a social graph, and that Reels, unlike Stories, was a less than natural product extension and roll-out. Lea noted that Instagram was always \u201cphoto first, and video second\u201d and that the addition of Reels is flipping that in a \u201cforced\u201d nature.[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/cubmpd.ca\/storytellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/9.png” title_text=”9″ _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_css_main_element=”font-family: Inter;||font-style: normal;||font-weight: normal;||font-size: 20px;||line-height: 170%;||\/* or 34px *\/||||||color: #FFFFFF;” global_colors_info=”{}”]To better understand the delicate dance that is product evolution, an area they both agreed was key to the long-term success of an app, I attempted to break down the unique pieces and creative constraints found within TikTok and BeReal and asked at what point the removal and\/or addition of these key features would significantly deteriorate their relationship with the app. This process, understandably, challenged them. Simply altering one<\/em> relatively small feature (such as adding video option to BeReal or upping TikTok\u2019s video length limit) did not negatively impact their relationship with the app. However, Lea and Alicia noted that the importance of a change or the number of changes can increase to a point at which the “[app\u2019s] purpose is lost” and at which the app deviates too much from the reason it was used in the first place.<\/p>\n

As I reflect on the research and interviews conducted for this series, it is clear to me that Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter have indeed evolved into everything<\/em> platforms, leaving users like Lea and Alicia pressed to find that missing something<\/em> somewhere else. I guess you can say that as user discontent grew over time (Tik\u2026Tok\u2026Tik\u2026Tok<\/em>), users decided to it was time to BeReal with themselves and admit Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are in crisis.[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_5,3_5,1_5″ _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_5″ _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/cubmpd.ca\/storytellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ArielBioImage-1.png” title_text=”ArielBioImage” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100px” height=”100px” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_5″ _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,1_2,1_4″ _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.10.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||||false|false” custom_padding=”||||false|false” custom_css_main_element=”font-family: Inter;||font-style: normal;||font-size: 16px;||line-height: 160%;||\/* or 26px *\/||||text-align: center;||color: #FFFFFF;” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n

Ariel Aarenau<\/strong> is in his final year of the Bachelor of Media Production and Design program at Carleton University where he is also minoring in Business. The fusion of digital media, design thinking, and innovative business technologies combines both his strengths and passions. He currently works at Deloitte as a Business Analyst focusing on digital strategy, innovation, and transformation advisory projects. Prior to joining Deloitte, Ariel held roles in Multimedia Services at the House of Commons of Canada, Marketing and Business Development for Deloitte Israel, and the Digitally Assisted Storytelling division of Carleton Immersive Media Studio.<\/p>\n

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Bitzanis, L. (2022). Lea Bitzanis Media Kit<\/em>. [PDF].<\/p>\n

Bitzanis, L. (27 November 2022) Interview. Conducted by Ariel Aarenau.<\/p>\n

Brown, D., & James, C. (2022, April 20). Why BeReal, a social-media app with no photo filters, is attracting gen Z<\/em>. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved November 27, 2022, from https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/why-BeReal-a-social-media-app-with-no-photo-filters-is-attracting-gen-z-11650456491?st=vs2yrywp8xdjen4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink<\/p>\n

Davis, W. (2022, April 16). BeReal is gen Z’s new favorite social media app. here’s how it works<\/em>. NPR. Retrieved November 27, 2022, from https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/04\/16\/1092814566\/BeReal-app-gen-z-download<\/p>\n

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