No one would admit to this in real life, so I thought I'd see if I really am a total weirdo or if others do this too.
When I'm on Instagram or Facebook I often find myself looking at the profiles of people I barely know or even complete strangers. I don't mean celebrities or 'Instagram famous' people, just ordinary everyday people with a few hundred followers. Sometimes they're friends of friends, sometimes they're friends of friends of friends...you get the picture. I like to look at their photos, see what they've posted. I don't know why I do this exactly except that I'm just curious. I understand people looking at the profiles of ex partners and having a stickybeak, but these are people I might have met once or don't even know at all in real life. It's like I'm building a wider database in my mind of overlapping social circles, but then I also find myself getting interested in their lives too. I could tell you that X has just gotten divorced, Y is in a new relationship, all because I check their profiles every so often. I've occasionally been introduced to someone in real life and already known all this stuff about them from their profiles.
Does anyone else do this? I feel like a bit of a weirdo as I know things about their life and they have no idea who I am. But then I also think they clearly don't care if people do that since their profiles are on public!