Instagram Stories Adds New Features

1.   Selfie Stickers - users can now capture a mini-selfie, which they can turn into a sticker and add anywhere on their Instagram Story or to disappearing messages in Direct

2.     Pinning - users can pin stickers, text, and selfie stickers to a specific spot in a video or Boomerang

3.  Geo stickers - Instagram has added Geo stickers in four new cities: Chicago, London, Madrid, and Tokyo

4.    Shortcut to favorite stickers - once you tap the smiley to add a sticker to a Story or disappearing message, swipe right to see recently used stickers

5.   Hands-Free countdown - when recording a video using Hands-Free mode, users can tap and hold the button to see a timer that counts down to when the video begins

Source: https://blog.hootsuite.com/social-media-news-april-2017-roundup/
Critics: Intagram always gives new things and new feature features to keep active users not turning to social media with this instagram want to always be the largest sharing platform image and video in the world. In addition instagram already provides a feature story that is more interesting than the previous competitors, this indicates instagram really really want to be number 1 in the world