 Hi, welcome back to Pookie and Buddy somewhere in the background here eating something disgusting I don't even want to think about. Today I am going to talk to you about Finsta or FinstaGram So I've been doing quite a bit of work recently about social media and its impact on children and young people's mental health and one of the kind of more recent phenomenon if you like that I've come across that lots of people seem to be unaware of is FinstaGram. So FinstaGram is the putting together of the word fake and Instagram to make FinstaGram And it's a second Instagram account that young people have which is where they share the kind of more real life embarrassing funny stuff day-to-day. So with Instagram Poppa or Instagram real plus Instagram Young people tend to think really carefully about the image they want to portray to the world And they will upload with great care They will think really carefully about the angles from which pictures are taken They'll think about the cropping of those pictures. They might use tools like Photoshop to enhance those pictures once they're created And then they will think carefully about the captions that go with the pictures and the tagging that they do So lots and lots of thought goes into each and every post in order that their Instagram their real Instagram account Which is open to the public gets as many likes as many follows as many comments as possible And portrays them in the way in which they wish to be portrayed Their Instagram account is a private account So if you were to click on it, you wouldn't be able to see the content unless you were approved as a follower And the only people who are likely to be approved as followers are trusted friends And here is where the funny stuff the day-to-day stuff the quick stuff kind of goes up The kind of things that historically young people would be more likely to share via a means like snapchat Which is a different social media platform where posts disappear relatively quickly afterwards Now I think this is a really interesting kind of move forwards And I think it has kind of pros and cons and I'd be really interested to hear your thoughts about it too So leave a comment below with your thoughts So things that come to mind for me one is that this is a remarkably savvy thing for young people to be doing So we historically have had a lot of concern about the fact that everything that goes online is there forever And you know all the kind of ridiculous drunken pictures or the daft You know an embarrassing things that you might do online or be tagged in Are there for future employers to see forever And in this instance they're not, they're hidden, they're in a private account So that to me seems quite savvy On the other hand it seems to me almost worrying That a young person cultivates such a kind of perfect image such an airbrushed image of their life online That you know the idea of being real on that account And including the funny and embarrassing and day-to-day stuff or being kind of tagged in a selfie That hasn't been you know beautifully airbrushed or what have you That strikes me as sort of slightly concerning and one of those things that might kind of put increased pressure on things like body image And I kind of compare and despair that we see in young people sometimes The other thing is just the sheer fact of managing two Instagram accounts So your Finstagram and your Instagram I want to call them Which just has a kind of you know obviously a time pressure And means more time still being spent on social media Than might have previously been done because you've now got two accounts to manage So yeah there's obviously a time factor in there So lots of different kind of things to think about there Hopefully it's made you aware of something that you might not have been aware about before If it is something you're aware of and you've got thoughts and feelings on it And things that we maybe need to be teaching young people about Or the discussions we might be having with them about it Pros and cons that you've observed or that have come to mind Yeah share them in a comment below And yeah if you like the video give it a thumbs up If you didn't you're welcome to give it a thumbs down although they make me sad And yeah do subscribe and hit the notification bell if you want to be alerted when I make new videos I'm making quite a few at the moment trying to get the hang of this YouTube thing Yeah that's it from me today thank you and goodbye