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Did they betatest this feature? I swear I've had it for at least a week or two now, and I've seen some friends post a couple of stories as well. I thought it was much less popular than the stories in Instagram or Messenger, but maybe most of them didn't have the feature yet. Anyway, Snapchat still seems to be by far the most popular for this functionality, at least in my circle of friends.

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Facebook is known to A/B test features in other countries before rolling them out to the rest of the world.

Stories in particular launched earlier this year in Ireland, Chile, Greece and Vietnam.

> Facebook Stories, a feature that puts photos that disappear after 24 hours at the top of the Facebook mobile app, is rolling out to users in Chile, Greece and Vietnam, Facebook confirmed. However, it is not available to users in all markets. The feature was first tested among users in Ireland in January [...] [1]

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/15/facebook-stories-roll-out/

Facebook is well known for doing A/B testing. I'd reckon most of your friends didn't yet have it.

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