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Instagram Stories have arrived to change everything. Or rather they were copied from Snapchat to change everything. They have transcended other applications such as WhatsApp and Facebook, and their format with self-destruction after 24 hours has been key for users to show other facets of their profiles and personalities. They also have all kinds of decoration, design and participation tools Among them surveys and the new sliding surveys.But if you think that the latter only serve to assess how much you like or dislike something, this article will open your eyes and perception.
Multi-response surveys
Surely you have already come across a survey of this type. And it is that they are much more practical than the surveys with only two answers that Instagram Stories offers per se. The idea is to take advantage of all the sliding bar of the new surveys to choose between different options
All you have to do is type several options vertically (it's more convenient than horizontally). Then plant the slider poll next to the responses. Thus, your followers will only have to put the emoticon at the height of the answer they want to give If you order the answers in order of intensity or from one logical extreme to the other In addition, the results will give you the general evaluation among all the votes.Very practical when you want to ask multi-answer questions.
Catch Games
Sliding polls can also be used to play games, and not just to give opinions. If you haven't noticed, every time you choose an option or move the smiley, it's thrown to the top of the screen Well, some people have already created all kinds of hobbies with this simple detail.
For example, you can ask your followers to send you screenshots of the exact moment you light the fuse of a stick of dynamite. You just have to draw the cartridge and a wick in your story. Then you just have to choose the slider survey with the flame icon so that the followers hit the wick. And what is an even greater challenge: to make a capture at the right moment to verify that they have managed to balance it.You can modify the game elements with baskets to hit the emoticons or create compositions between the drawn elements and the sliding survey. Imagination to power.
Detailed Surveys
Sliding polls are used to show the intensity of a response. But they can also be used to raise dichotomies and measure the general feeling of your followers. The idea is simple: use the slider poll to pose a question between two extremes
The good thing is that you can take advantage of other emoji emoticons or GIFs to illustrate these two parts In this way the followers will have no doubts to the time to move the selection smiley to the left or right to choose which option they are more inclined towards.
Picture Surveys
It is a variant of multi-response surveys but focused on images And it is a formula with which to raise doubts more answers and on top of that, presenting the options visually. Of course, they require a little more preparation, since first you have to create a background composite image that will serve as a multi-response for the survey.
We can use applications like PhotoGrid, which allows us to design collages of several photos. You just have to try to create a vertical composition to be able to introduce several selectable images with the sliding survey icon. When we have the composition, we just have to take it to Instagram Stories and apply the survey and all the decorations we want. And that's it, you can now vote for the image you like best
Skill games with GIF
Between the sliding polls and animated GIFs, real entertainment can emerge on your Instagram Stories. You just have to find the ideal content and know how to present it In the case of GIFs, there are some animations that appear and disappear from the image, which can help to these games where you create a metered composition along with the sliding polls icon.
Basically it consists of choosing a GIF that appears and disappears from the image and planting it in the story. Then put the sliding poll at the other end. The job for the viewers of these contents will be to capture the ideal moment in which both elements coincide. Of course you have to create a correlation between both visual elements, something that will depend on the creativity of each one.Try to join faces with dancing bodies, two overlapping hearts…
