Facebook shuts down Lifestage, its teen-focused Snapchat clone
Lifestage, one of Facebook’s more recent attempts to get Snapchat-obsessed teens to use Facebook’s services instead, has now been shut down, as reported by Business Insider. If you’re not familiar with Lifestage, I don’t entirely blame you, given that the app’s big hook was that only users aged 21 or younger could sign on in the first place.
Also, the video diary-ish application just never seemed to actually become popular in any sense of the word. Lifestage had big privacy issues as well. There was no way to actually enforce the 21 and under rule — anyone could enter in whatever birthday they wanted when signing up — and all Lifestage content was “always public and viewable by everyone,...