Facebook has introduced a spinoff app called Lifestage designed strictly for users under 21, so if you’re over 22, you can’t see other people’s profiles. This app is a little bit similar to Snapchat and it differs from the traditional facebook services. It requires videos to be used in order to complete your profile.
It’s also tethered to schools so it won’t fully unlock your specific school unless 20 total users from your school have signed up.
Lifestage is the work of 19 year old Michael Sayman who has been with the company since he himself got out of high school. This 19-year-old prodigy has made thousands designing gaming apps before Mark Zuckerberg hired him, one of his popular app is a photo-charades app known as 4snaps.
Sayman said he spent two years creating an app that people of his age would want to use, and wanted to recreate the local feeling Facebook had when it launched in American universities in 2004.
The app is seen as Facebook’s latest attempt to appeal to teenagers and crush Snapchat, one of the world’s most popular apps for teenagers.
