Oh crap, will they see I was looking on their Instagram

[BlueBlackYellow]

I was browsing on Instagram and I checked out an account. So I like him. He's good looking and I like to look at his account sometimes. I never sent him a friend request. It's my hairdressers account and his personal account and not hair account.

I clicked on his profile circle and then it said something like 14 hours ago. Like some sort of a picture or a video or something. I don't know what it was. I was trying to click out from it and turn off data to see if that could save my ass.

Would he know I was looking at his instagram. It's his profile circle pic.

Yes, clicking on someone's profile pic shows you their Instagram 'story' - this is a temporary post that only stays up for 24 hours. The person whose story it is can see a list of who has looked at it (but only if they specifically check, they won't get a specific notification for each person)

That's his stories and yes he can see (if he wanted to) who has viewed his stories. I doubt he'd look to see who viewed though unless he's obsessed with that kind of thing. If you block his profile now and then unblock in a couple of days once that story has expired (they last 24 hours) then he wouldn't be able to see you viewed it. Unless he's already seen that is.

That's an Instagram story and yes he will be able to see you've viewed it. I wouldn't worry too much, lots of random people view my stories, like friends of people I've tagged and people that follow hashtags I've used and it doesn't bother me.

In my view that's the whole point of social media, it's a network; it doesn't exist in a vacuum and if you don't want people to see your stuff then don't post it or make it private.

Thank you for this tip. I read it a moment ago and blocked him.

Holy crap. Why do I do this to myself. It only happened a few minutes before writing this post. So I don't he checked his Instagram in the 5 to 10 minutes of clicking on it and writing this post and reading your reply.

Thank you for your reply and saving me.

This all seems like a dramatic overreaction to looking at someone’s story!

You can see who's looked at your story, but you would have to go into it specifically to check... I don't know why anyone would bother?

If he has a public profile he probably gets loads of people looking, he's unlikely to notice you.

If it's a public page he knows and doesn't mind that people will look at his stories. It also means he’s likely to have a wider network of hundreds of people looking. Those of us with private accounts and smaller friend-only networks may have viewers in the 20-40s. I'd say it's highly unlikely he'd even notice you or think it unusual.

When you follow people there's an autoplay on stories so it will often flip through from one person's stories to another without you actively choosing it and if you tap through them it still looks like you're viewing all - but people often aren't really looking, they're just fast-forwarding.

Don't worry about blocking him, it's honestly nothing. Instagram is for the eye candy of life, that's all it is. Holiday snaps, nights out, a nice bunch of flowers, a good meal, dressing up etc. If anyone was ever to bring it up (and no one will) you just go "Oh I follow lots of accounts, I hadn't noticed" tinkly laugh.

Sorry, but why does this matter????

I never followed his page though. I can understand if I followed him and there would be an auto play of stories. I specifically went to look on his Instagram and clicked on his profile circle.

I blocked him now so hopefully he doesn't see that I viewed it.

I won't be doing that again.

I was snooping on his private page. If it was his hair page, it will be grand but it wasn't. It was his private page and I don't follow his private page either.

Yes because you viewed his story however I use instagram often and post a lot of stories, and never look at who’s viewed them.

I blocked him since and within 10 minutes so will he still be able to see that I viewed it.

Instagram stories are there for people to watch, what are you missing from your post? Unless he's your ex or has recently turned you down what's the issue with viewing a public post?

I don’t know if you’re being deliberately obtuse or just don’t really get it.

Whilst a story is “public” if someone’s account is “public” - it’s generally known that you need to deliberately navigate there to view it if you don’t follow that person, and it does leave a footprint. Depending on your individual connection to the viewer/poster then that can speak volumes - e.g. partners ex viewing your story every day, or your boss, or an abusive ex. It’s not always as benign as you’re implying.

I think in this scenario though, the OP might be overthinking things a bit. Your other option OP, would have been to brazen it out and just give him a follow on his personal insta, he may well have reciprocated.

As the poster is neither a partners ex or a boss or an abusive ex and I specifically mentioned some exceptions anyway you seen overly het up.

Maybe my Instagram is different to yours but every day it suggests people for me to follow and clicking on their profile pic is perfectly understandable in that situation, it's a non event so wondering why the OP is flapping so much is an obvious question

She’s embarrassed because she clicked on the profile pic which opened his stories and has now left a digital footprint that could indicate her interest in his personal life. That’s all it is. Some people have broader shoulders than others.

it's a non event so wondering why the OP is flapping so much is an obvious question

She fancies him and doesn’t want him to know?

As a hairdresser he's probably used to clients looking him up

Thank you for explaining it for me.

Will blocking him remove me from his list of people who viewed his story?

I don’t know that for certain, it’s possible.

Lets look at it like this though;

You viewed his story - and within 10 mins blocked him.

He may be one of those people who looks at who views his story, but he also may not.

The story you viewed was 14 hours old, chances of him checking who’s viewed such an old story, if he is indeed a story view checker, within that specific 10 minute window…very, very slim.

This feature is how Coleen Rooney worked out which account was leaking to The Sun

That's how I ended up meeting my partner! It was on a dating site, I kept clicking on his profile without realising he was notified each time :)

So I messaged him to apologise and reassure him I wasn't stalking him. Things developed from there :)

I know the chances of him seeing that I viewed his story within a 10 minutes frame is slim and I am not overly concerned about those 10 minutes.

I am just wondering if blocking him would have removed me from that list from now on. If blocking him would have covered my ass. I am not stalking him. I just think he's so cute and sometimes I like to be nosey. That's all.

You won’t get his pants off by doing that 😆.