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Now playing: Watch this: Facebook clones Snapchat again 1:21 Facebook just made its biggest move in its war against Snapchat. The social network on Tuesday widely released Facebook Stories, a near-identical clone of rival Snapchat’s popular feature, also called Stories. The feature lets people post a string of videos and photos that disappear after 24 …

Now playing: Watch this: Start using Facebook Stories 1:38 There’s a new way to share your life on Facebook, and you may already be familiar with it. Facebook Stories is the latest Snapchat-like feature to roll out on the company’s main app. Even if you’re not a Snapper, you’re probably already familiar with the concept — these ephemeral stories have …

Now playing: Watch this: Apple Clips makes it simple to craft viral videos 1:41 The first thing you’d think looking at Clips, Apple‘s newly announced video-editing app, is that it’s trying to be Snapchat. Or Instagram. Or Vine. But Clips, which I got a chance to try my hands on in New York, doesn’t have its own social platform. It’s …

Amy Fleetwood was tired of all the fighting. Her daughters seemed caught up in nearly nonstop texting, watching videos and sending Snaps. She hoped the big screen would show them what their phones’ small screens were doing to them. So just before Thanksgiving, she took Martha, 13, and Sarita, 16, to see “Screenagers: Growing Up in the Digital Age,” a …

Now playing: Watch this: Your social apps are crushing your data plan 1:20 Curtailing your phone use as you near your data cap at the end of each month is no way to live. A better way is to stop data-hungry apps from using too much data in the first place. The apps that use the most data typically are …

Snapchat appears to be the social-media app of choice for millennials. College students turn first to the ephemeral-messaging app before Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn, according to data released Thursday by LendEdu, an online marketplace for student loan refinancing. Fifty-eight percent of college students said they open Snapchat first, compared with 27 percent who chose Instagram, 13 percent who said Facebook …

Snapchat wants even more real estate on your phone. The disappearing photo app, owned by parent company Snap, on Tuesday launched a quicker way to start chatting with your friends on the app. With Snapchat’s Bitmoji widget, you can pick a few friends and see their avatars right from the “Today” screen on iOS and the home screen on Android …

Now playing: Watch this: CNET asks New Yorkers: How do you Venmo? 3:29 When Sarah Mellema wanted to shoot a quick, encouraging message to her friend Sam, she didn’t open Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat or WhatsApp. She didn’t email, text or call. She used Venmo. “Miss you boo. Here’s a kiss and some money,” the 26-year-old Chicagoan wrote, attaching a …

Now playing: Watch this: Facebook Messenger copies Snapchat Stories to stay hip 1:46 At some point, you have to feel bad for Snapchat. WhatsApp and Instagram each have released a feature that’s nearly identical to Snapchat’s Stories feature, which lets you post photos and videos that disappear after 24 hours. Now here comes Facebook Messenger with a new feature called …

Now playing: Watch this: Facebook Messenger copies Snapchat Stories to stay hip 1:46 Social media content that disappears in a puff of smoke after 24 hours is hot right now, and Facebook can’t ignore it. The social network introduced a new feature on Thursday as part of its standalone Messenger app that lets you tell the story of what’s going …