In this article
A location sticker on a story is tappable. Tapping it shows other public stories posted with the same place, which makes a geotag a search key rather than a caption.
It is the most useful thing on a story for a business, and the one detail most worth leaving off a personal one.
What you will be able to do
- check_circle Browse public stories by place.
- check_circle Tag a story so people nearby find it.
- check_circle See what a geotag discloses about you.
- check_circle Decide per story rather than by habit.
The place sticker is a control: tapping it opens everything else posted there.
place A place is an index
Most story stickers decorate. A location sticker files. Adding one puts your public story into a list that anybody can open by tapping the same place on somebody else's story, or by looking the place up.
For anything with premises that is close to free advertising, and better targeted than most paid kinds. The people browsing a place are people interested in that place, usually because they are in it or about to be.
The same mechanism is why a personal story deserves a moment's thought. A geotag is exact in a way a caption is not: not "at the coast" but a named venue at a stated time, permanently attached to a picture of you. Several of those over a few months describe a routine, and a routine is the thing worth protecting.
The rule that resolves it is about timing rather than secrecy. Posting a place you have left costs you nothing; posting a place you are sitting in tells anybody who looks where to find you for the next hour. Most people are comfortable with the first and have never separated it from the second.
Four uses
The last one is the habit worth adopting.
storefront Where people are standing
explore Seeing a place now
shield What it says about you
schedule The habit that solves most of it
A geotag is an index entry. Wanted for a business, and best posted after you have left everywhere else.
settings Using it
- Tap a place sticker on any story To see what else was posted there.
- Add the location sticker while composing Choosing the venue, not the city.
- Set the audience first A restricted story stays out of the public index.
- Tag live only when you want people to come Which is a business decision.
- Otherwise post after leaving The story is the same.
- Never tag the places you return to Those describe a routine.
This page attaches a place to a picture. The curriculum step is the larger question it belongs to: what the public side of an identity contains, keeping the parts of a life separate, and deciding deliberately what strangers get to assemble.
At a glance
- 1Location search
Browse public stories tagged at a place.
- 2Geotags are exact
A location tag shows the place and time.
- 3Post after leaving
Tag a place after you leave to stay private.
Updated
