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Instagram's Close Friends Feature Lets s Share Stories With a Smaller Group

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By Reuters | Updated: 30 November 2018 15:57 IST

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Instagram's Close Friends Feature Lets s Share Stories With a Smaller Group

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s can create a smaller group and share stories exclusively with them
The new feature will appear on the 's profile in the side menu
Facebook has been focusing on Instagram as it has come under scrutiny

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Facebook's Instagram said on Friday it launched a new feature dubbed "Close Friends" allowing s to share their stories with a smaller group of people. 6i5id

The new Instagram's more than 1 billion s to create a smaller group of friends and share stories exclusively with the group.

"If you're on someone's close friends list, you'll see a green ring around their photo in the Stories tray and a green badge when you're viewing their stories," Instagram said in a statement to Reuters.

Facebook has been focusing on Instagram, its fastest-growing revenue generator, as the social networking website's core platform has come under fire from regulators pushing to improve information safeguards for individual privacy, to combat addiction to social media, and to stop misinformation or fake news.

In October, Instagram appointed long-term insider Adam Mosseri as the head of the photo-sharing app following the high-profile exits of the photo-sharing app's co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger.

Rival Snap, owner of Snapchat, which faces stiff competition from Instagram has been redeg the app to lure more s and rs. Snap also bagged a $250 million (roughly Rs. 1,700) investment from Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed bin Talal as it shifted toward a self-serve model for rs.

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