New App for Teenagers on Facebook

FACEBOOK launches Lifestage,a standalone iOS app for people under  the age of 21 today. The app takes your life on Facebook as far back as 2004 and place to 2016. It also asks for your happy face, sad face, likes, dislikes, best friend, the way you dance and more, but instead of filling in this biography quiz with text, you shoot videos. Lifestage turns those clips you recorded into a video profile others can watch.

The app was built for teenagers in high school 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. The app, called Lifestage, recently debuted on iOS. Though anyone can download it and use it, only those under 21 years of age will find it particularly interesting.

Users need to select their school name after signing up and the app shows other people’s profile to them only when at least 20 other students from the same school register on it, reminiscent of the way Facebook was originally launched in the US, school by school and University by University.

In the feed section, user will find people from your school who have recently updated their profiles, which you can tap through to see specific answers, or swipe through to skip to different sections. To instill some ramification, people get ranked with higher levels if they’ve added more to their profile. You’ll also see a sunglasses-smile emoji by people who recently updated, while those who’ve let their profiles languish will show a frown or even the poop emoji.