Finstagram (noun): Fake Instagram; a person's second Instagram account, usually private and consisting of pictures that one would not usually post on public social media.

This week I made a second personal Instagram account, a "finsta." Though this type of social media is known as a "fake Instagram," posting on this account got me feeling far from fake. In fact, this is the most real and unfiltered I've ever been on Instagram.

Maybe it's because this second Instagram is not my primary account. Or maybe because it's private and doesn't have over one thousand followers watching what I post. But I've felt substantially less pressured to produce quality Instagram content on my finstagram. There's no need to find a perfect filter that'll match the whole aesthetic I've kept up. Or to write a more than minimal caption. Or to post exactly at prime-posting-hour. (If you're as unapologetically addicted to Instagram as I am, you understand).

With this so-called fake Instagram I'm far less worried about the number of likes I'll get. Though all the pictures on my primary account reflects who I genuinely am, my second account is more of an expression of my real self that does not depend on the perceptions of others.

So that brings me to the question that a lot of people have been talking and thinking about, especially in this age of millennials. Who would we be if social media never existed?

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