Slingshot , Facebook ’s 2d swinging at Snapchat - same ephemeron , may be pretty to look at , but until now , it ’s suffered from one huge problem : It did n’t make a slug of sentiency . Thankfully , Facebook ’s finally remedied that by getting rid of its absurd reply - to - unlock feature . In other words — you’re able to actually use it to have a normal conversation .
Before today ’s update , your friends would n’t actually be able to see the figure of speech you air them until they replied ( or “ reacted ” ) with one of their own . So if they wanted to respond to the original picture itself , they ’d actually be sending two picture your way , begetting an exponentially increasing garbage dump of self - destructing photograph that would exhaust you until your die day . But no more !
Now , any reaction you get can be immediately replied to with a photo , video , or text message . Slingshot ’s also added a “ My the great unwashed ” feature , which lets you see everyone you ’re presently catapult with in one complete list . Similar — one might say — to Snapchat .
Does this mean Slingshot is cash in one’s chips to overtake Snapchat for the ephemeral media crest ? No , probably not . But hey — at least it ’s lastly available . [ Slingshot ]
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