[Ads-l] "finsta" - fake instagram account

[Andy Bach]

But I guess it can refer to any fake account, as in Romney's "Pierre
Delecto" twitter handle.
Mitt Romney’s Secret Twitter Account Shows Everyone Has a Finsta
<https://medium.com/@luxnightmare/mitt-romneys-secret-twitter-account-shows-everyone-has-a-finsta-e7feb3781a15?source=email-8afedb24ccfc-1571832451316-digest.reader------1-53------------------0eed48e0_eb25_428a_b59e_8be9f0c01e11-14-----&sectionName=premium>
...
Facebook use is down among the youth
<https://www.businessinsider.com/generation-z-facebook-2018-1>, who are
more likely to document their lives through temporary posts like Instagram
Stories and Snapchat, or on private “finstas” — secondary and usually
private Instagram accounts.

Dictionary.com has it:
*Finstagram* is a portmanteau of *fake* and *instagram*. It started
appearing on social media in late July 2011. At this time, a handful of
Twitter users who posted photos in their tweets dubbed their posts
*finstagrams* to account for the fact that they were using the site as
someone might use the then-newish photosharing app Instagram.
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