Friends and Sharing

You can add a friend by going to the Me icon (top right on desktop, bottom right on mobile) or by sharing a story with an invite link.

Privacy first

Unlike on traditional social media, LifeTales focuses on giving you complete, customized and transparent control over sharing and privacy.

Nothing's automatic … you have full control over who sees what.

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No following, no forwarding

Your contacts will see your story only if you choose to share it with them.

So even if you're connected with a long list of friends in LifeTales, each one will only see the stories you choose to share with them … other friends won't even know you've created other stories.

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Easily share with select groups

On the other hand, you may have a group that you DO want to share with frequently. Instead of selecting all of them for each story, you can use a shared Collection for that.

It's like a Messaging group for Stories 🧑🏽‍🚒👳🏼‍♂️👩🏼👵🏼👦🏽

We'll explain in more detail under the Collections Tag.

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No Algorithm

There's no algorithm — if you share it, your friends will be notified (unless they don't want to be!) 😀

And for you videophiles, here's one on Sharing