Twitter is mocking Senator Blumenthal because the kids might have ‘fake’ Instagram accounts to keep their ‘private’ digital thoughts away from parents yet share that private information with their ‘friends’.
Why was it so hard for the Facebook rep to answer in simple words what Finsta is? Darn those places for personal privacy, because who doesn’t store their diary or at least their diaristic thoughts in an online platform. What filters or sense of propriety remain when your besties could betray you?
Your mirror should be a window into the public sphere because often personal thoughts do get commodified. Because if you can’t trust Facebook/Instagram with your disclosures, who can you trust for toxic self-destruction?
The reality is when those places get hacked and pillaged for spam, blackmail, or doxxing, because you really want to test those limits of friendship, Just like Donald Trump always claims Senator Blumenthal cries too much.
Because for sure Facebook won’t be used for insidious political purposes that Zuck doesn’t care about, and wasn’t initially financed by Russian oligarchs.
A Finsta is a shortened term for Fake Instagram, which is an Instagram account used by teens and young adults to document more real, candid posts they share with only close friends. Oftentimes, an Instagram account is used to curate a public collage of edited images for upwards of hundreds or thousands of followers.
The college years are hard — there’s this weird balance between desperately wanting friends and hating everyone at the same time. You’re starting to face the realities of being an adult in the competitive world of the Bay Area. You have to deal with ridiculous course loads, figuring out your future, applying for things, working a job (or two) — the list could go on. What we’re trying to say is, there are a lot of things to complain about. Rather than take out our frustrations out loud, many of us take to Instagram. Not to our “rinstas,” or real accounts that anyone can follow. No, we take to our finstas, or “fake Instagrams.” Follows are reserved for a few trusted friends, most of who also have finstas of their own, who we can trust to not share our deepest secrets and frustrations that we post. It’s a place to keep up with friends from high school, complain about relationship issues and post drunk selfies that we certainly do not want family members or future employers seeing.
There’s no freedom quite as great as the freedom you have on your finsta to express yourself. For those of you who don’t have finstas but are considering making one, we at the Clog have created a list of easy tips to follow so you can make an incredible finsta.
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