Everybody and their mom know of the famous social media app Instagram, a platform for anyone to express themselves and post whatever they want. Many of my friends including myself only post good pictures of us along with a quality filter, and always a short, witty or basic caption. Users of Instagram only post top class pictures with the intention of gaining hundreds of likes, because who doesn’t like getting 200 plus likes on a hot picture?? Although Instagram was created with the intention of expressing yourself and keeping your followers up to date, it is more of a PG rated version of your life. Thus caused the latest trend, “Finsta,” a second Instagram account referred to as a fake Instagram, genius right??
While I haven’t jumped on the bandwagon of my own personal Finsta, I have my friends’ fake Insta’s to admire. Finsta’s are made for you to post funny/bad/blurry pictures you normally wouldn’t post on your regular Instagram; paired with a hilarious picture is a caption expressing how you feel in that moment. Compared to Instagram, your Finsta is more than likely an R-rated version of your life, where you only would want your very close friends to follow you.
My good friend Al loves her Finsta and finds it therapeutic. Using her Finsta to vent about boys, school, day-to-day struggles etc. Only letting her closest friends follow her to laugh, like, or comment on her posts.
Eventually, everyone will make a Finsta and rant about their struggles through pictures and lengthy captions, you get to say how you feel and it’s a lot cheaper than therapy.
