Meaning & use

Finstas

noun·Everyday

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Private or secondary Instagram accounts, used to share casual or personal content with a smaller, trusted group of followers.

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She posts her polished photos on her main account but saves the silly ones for her finstas.

Most of his classmates keep finstas that their parents don't know about.

A note on using this word

A blend of 'fake' and 'Instagram'; the term was added to Merriam-Webster's dictionary in 2023.

Words with a similar meaning

fake Instagram

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Words with an opposite meaning

rinsta

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