"She started talking about how that class sucked the life out of her and how she hated it so much. "One of my friends started complaining about her orchestra director on finsta," Vinci said. Yet that trust can sometimes be betrayed. Snapchat is for people you know closely and chat with all day, but finsta is for your real closest friends. Only the people you trust. Your main Insta is for people who you know pretty well.
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"Facebook is for people who are like, professional contacts. Vinci says that he keeps an unofficial ranking of social networks in his head. My finsta I only allow really close friends to follow." "Like if I meet someone at a friend's house and I'm like, 'Oh what's your Insta?' That's where you keep acquaintances, mutual friends and general friends. "My main account is what I use when I meet new people," said Isabel Mitchell, a 17-year-old in Belmont, California. Group chats and Instagram Direct don't work for this because everyone would have to be following each other.
They said that they wanted to keep their main insta accounts for casual followers, teachers or parents who like to keep up with their life, but they also wanted a space to vent and chat and get real with their friends. Why did these accounts start cropping up? Most teens we spoke to said finsta was a backlash against the overly curated image you're expected to portray on social media. "It's almost like, if you're a political candidate, your rinsta would be your platform page, where you post the best version of yourself." Two apps in one "You're the same person on both, just one is way more personal than the other," she said. "It's almost like, if you're a political candidate, your rinsta would be your platform page, where you post the best version of yourself," she said. "But your finsta would be your secret real account where you let your closest friends and family follow."