Facebook re-launches Slingshot

Roughly six months after launching Slingshot, Facebook Creative Labs announced Thursday that they’ve re-focused the app to allow for more frictionless sharing.

When it was first released, Slingshot was similar to Snapchat, but requiring a user to send a message back in order to read a message received. Facebook admitted that this wasn’t conducive to sharing, so it opened up the app by getting rid of that restriction. Now, it is relaunching with Instagram-like filters as a straight-up photo messaging app.

Facebook blogged about the new Slingshot:

With Slingshot we originally set out to create a place where you could share real, raw moments with your friends.