For a certain generation, Instagram has become a calling card, a life resume of sorts: "This is me.
This is my life.
Jealous?"
A scroll through a typical feed is likely to reveal improbable images of just the right artisanal pizza, attractive couples drunk in love, all captured in perfect light and enhanced with various editing tools.
But life isn't all rooftop parties and 45-degree-angle selfies.
Some young adults, weary of trying to live up to their annoyingly perfect online avatars, have created "finstagrams," or fake Instagram accounts, that present truer versions of themselves than their main profiles.
These locked, pseudonymous accounts capture something rarely seen by people who follow these same users on their main accounts: reality .
Created mainly by teenagers and 20-somethings, finstagrams are intimate online spaces intended for an audience of friends, with the number of followers purposely kept in the low double digits.
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