Lifestage is Facebook’s teens-only video-centric app

I don’t know if its anxiety or fear of losing out on younger segment more infatuated with likes of Snapchat but here comes another Snapchat inspired video-centric app from the house of Facebook. The social networking giant has launched a standalone iOS app named Lifestage for people 21 and under that allows them to watch clips about the lives of their classmates.

Lifestage lets you create your profile using photos and videos: things you like, things you dislike, your facial expressions, your best friends etc. If 20 or more people from one school sign up, then that school gets “unlocked,” meaning you can discover video profiles created by others in your school.

Videos have become an important ingredient of social networking and all of this is clearly a part of Facebook’s attempt to become more video-centric.

While technically anyone can download Lifestage, anyone 22 or older will only be able to see their own profile. That’s because it’s built for high-schoolers to learn more about their classmates. A quick swipe lets you block and report people, too, in case anyone sketchy tries to creep on the kids.

"Lifestage makes it easy and fun to share a visual profile of who you are with your school network," the app's iTunes store description says.

The only worry for Lifestage is perhaps that Facebook has a poor track record with standalone apps, having shut down Poke, Slingshot, Paper, and Notify.