All the different girls you are on social media

After some deep insight and investigation, I’ve come to the conclusion that girls might be capable of a hidden super power.

Your Instagram: School. Sorority. Emoji. Your

Facebook: Name. Photos. Sharing of funny videos.

Your Snapchat: “Effortless” selfies. Updates from concerts. Filters with geotags.

You manage to create all these different social media accounts, and with it, you find yourself writing different descriptions and posting different updates for each. It’s quite a fascinating concept.

The gram

This is the cozy home to showing off the good things in your life. You upload that picture that’s a little too blurry from that one party, cute selfies of you and your boo thang, or that aesthetically pleasing meal you had for lunch. Your “feed” follows a theme, whether it’s tropical, carefree, grunge, or candid, and you can count on every girl having at least one picture using love song lyrics as their captions.

A cute selfie with the bf and an aesthetically pleasing food pic (both from the same account)

Two different selfies, one romantic singer responsible for the captions

Perfect quality photograph from a very fun night

Facebook

*Check, check, check, check… Yikes maybe not that one…* You think about it and then proceed to text your friend, “Is this too obvious to post?” This is where you upload the safe pictures you feel good about your Grandma commenting, “Adorable!! Miss and love you sweet pea!”

Attracting two adorable grandmas from one picture, very precious!

Tumblr

Your virtual hideaway. The world you want to zap into. The one social media account you don’t want your friends and people from your school following. You can create your alter ego behind the screen through your blog or utilize the site as your online journal, but you basically reblog your inspirations, that vintage photograph of the cute celebrity couple, or videos you just can’t stop laughing at by yourself.

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Finsta

When did these even become so popular? I remember hearing about it and not quite grasping the concept at all actually. If you don’t know what a Finsta is, it’s like your real Instagram’s evil twin sister. It houses the most terrifying pictures you have of your friends and ridiculous videos that would never make it anywhere else for the sake of your reputation.  If you don’t comment “OMG” or “HAHAHA” at least once a day, your friends are doing it wrong. The best thing about Finstas is clicking on someone’s profile just to see the tiny circles that hold their amusing avis (either taken not sober or through a Snapchat filter) and to read their clever bios.

Snapchat

Snapchat’s like your cool aunt. You can reveal some things, but to an extent. The videos of your friends doing stupid, hysterical things make it to your story, and sometimes you get hit with the case of “Snapchat saw it first” as the selfie gets uploaded to Instagram. Ah, and don’t forget about those times when you meet another girl for the first time, snap a selfie, and squeal, “That’s so cute I’m posting that!” Thanks for living with us through it all Snapchat.

Admit it, you would never come close to posting your most recent Finsta post on your Facebook, or post the amount of times in a day you do on Snapchat on your Instagram. We’re all guilty of these unspoken principles, but it’s fun to observe it through our friends and selves. As Gretchen Wieners once said, “That’s just, like, the rules of feminism!”