It’s sometimes an honor and sometimes a shock to see the green ring around someone’s profile and realize they’ve deemed you worthy of whatever it is they post. They essentially found a way to perfect the concept of finsta on just one account, by giving the user the option to post a viewable story available to only a select few. After realizing finstas had replaced much healthier methods of recalling events like journaling and dedicating more effort to therapy - not to mention the awkward tension of keeping people I didn’t talk to any longer on the account - I removed all of my followers and ceased posting, keeping the artifact for my own historiological purposes.īut now that little dopamine-obsessed gremlin inside my brain who once compelled me to finsta far too hard has reared its head once more with this Instagram feature. I was a serial finsta user from my junior year of high school to my sophomore year of college, posting hundreds of pictures detailing so many mundane or incredibly important moments on one account. It’s a publicly private, perfectly paradoxical daily journal that many young people use to keep their closest friends in the know of what they’re up to. If you didn’t remember parents trying to figure out what these secret, evil Instagram accounts were a few years back, a finsta is simply a “fake instagram” that exists as the antithesis of one’s main account.įinstas are almost always private caverns for shitposting, be it a constant stream of curated memes and ugly selfies or more intimate, usually random photos with long captions detailing the agonizing pain of someone’s mental health struggles (mostly a chaotic mix of both). No, before that actually, we need to go to its undeniable predecessor, finsta. Enter the “Close Friends” option on Instagram.

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