5 things parents need to know about “Finstagrams”

Because they are locked, finstagram accounts allow you to screen your followers; no one can follow you without your permission.

“You follow them first — that’s how you alert people that it’s there,” said Dominique Escandon, 18, a student at Carnegie Mellon University who has more than 370 followers on her main account and 33 on her pseudonymous one. “You tend to follow your best friends.”

In other words, almost anyone can follow you on Instagram, but only your most intimate friends are allowed to follow your Finsta.

This begs the question – if your kids have Finstas, should you follow them?  Or, more accurately, should you demand to follow them?

In our house, we decided that we should be allowed to follow our kids’ social media profiles — all of them.

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