I admit that although I am a 39-year-old, I behave more like a 25-year-old on social media. I’m an avid Instagrammer with 40,000 (real) followers with high engagement (@adam.the.creator), I use Facebook to connect with friends and family, and even got on Snapchat recently to document my small day-to-day moments. I love the filters, I really like the application.
Then Instagram dropped the bomb with its new version of Stories, and I heard the bell toll way in the distance for Snapchat.
Here are five reasons why my gut tells me that Snapchat should have taken the $4 billion and ran when it had the chance:

Sheer numbers: Instagram users outnumber snapchat users five to one. That’s 500 million monthly active users versus 100 million. What does that mean" That it’s easier to spread user behaviors like Stories within the Instagram app than it is for Snapchat to encourage Instagram users to adopt an entirely new platform. Instagram isn’t concerned with capturing the 100 million snappers as much as it is protecting its 500 million users. More star power: Kevin Hart is one of my favorite actors today. His Instagram account, @kevinhart4real, has 40 million followers. Each Instagram story that he posts has the potential to reach almost one-half of the entire user base of Snapchat. That’s muscle. I’m talking Super Bowl commercial muscle every time he posts a story–and that’s just one Instagram celeb.
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