The whole story: Finstas foster individualism

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Morgan Haworth, Print Editor

She uses her second Instagram to release emotional baggage. After hiding her true feelings and bottling herself in, she feels free when she posts on her finsta.

“I started my finsta because I feel like my finsta is the real me,” junior Jamike Unoke said.

A finsta stands for a “fake Instagram.” These accounts are usually for a smaller amount of followers.

“I post all my raw feelings on there about how I feel,” Unoke said.

She said her finsta is not all one emotion though.

“It’s like a heart rate, it’s moving, it’s always up and down,” she said.   

Similarly, senior Calleigh Gardner posts her feelings on her finsta.

“I post a lot of personal problems, maybe some rants every now and then,” Gardner said. “I just post things people wouldn’t expect.”

Senior Ben Rehm agreed with Unoke and Gardner and said he also uses his finsta to post funny or embarrassing things.

“I decided to make a finsta and have fun with it,” Rehm said. He posts things like events happening in his life and old memories. “In a way, I can look at it and see how things have changed within myself.”

The kind of things they like to post are funny pictures and videos, rants and just pictures that they don’t consider “Insta-worthy.”

“Having a finsta lets me post a lot of things that someone wouldn’t normally post on Insta,” Rehm explained.

Unoke agrees, and said she prefers to use her finsta over her main account where she feels people post more real things.

“The finsta is a community,” Unoke said. “I spend time on my finsta because I know other people are going to post from their real point of view.”