The say that capitalist economy breeds innovation , but as societal metier popularity persists into the 2020 ’s , nothing gets the barren market move like the TikTok - ification of Facebook or the Snapchat - ification of Instagram . In our present mean solar day , societal mass medium companies appear to be less interested in innovate , and more interested in Frankenstein - ing . Over the last decade , some of the most popular social media apps have blatantly rend off feature from some of the other most pop societal media apps , in a technical school version of Capture the Flag where the only unsuccessful person are the user who are forced to persist through this cat - and - mouse game .
It ’s important to note that Facebook ( now Meta ) purchased Instagram in 2012 , but for the sake of exploring how feature from one chopine have dispersed into another , Instagram and Facebook will be treated as freestanding entity .
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The last decade has been one of thievery, not one of innovation.Illustration: Allison Corr
