Chapter 9
Being Sneaky with Sharing Stories
IN THIS CHAPTER
Sharing other people’s stories to your own
Limiting who you share stories with
Exploring the ability to share regular feed posts to your stories
Adapting your story post to a regular feed post
Sometimes you want to use content that someone else created or you want to repurpose your own content for your stories. In this chapter, we show you how to share, or repost, Instagram stories to your own, how to reuse existing content, and how to be selective in who you share your stories with.
Sharing Another Story to Your Own Story
You may come across a cool Instagram story that you want to share to your own stories. Unfortunately, you can’t directly share just any story to your own. There isn’t an existing tool within Instagram that allows this. There are, however, two workarounds:
If you’re tagged in someone’s story, you can share that story to your own. If a friend of yours posts a story and includes your username tag in the post, you receive a notification in your direct messages. Included with the notification that you ...
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