The dreaded middle-of-the-night accidental 'like'

[usedtobeaylis]

Please tell me your tales of accidentally liking your ex's new girlfriend's best friend's 12 year old graduation photo on social media to make me feel better because I have done something similar last night 😭😆

Immediately went into witness protection by blocking and deactivating facebook, I am old enough to know better 😫

Oh no!!!!

Success story, I accidentally liked a pic of my current partner before we got together….the rest is history

Remember op it's never too late to start a new life on a different continent 😂

First world problems..

It would be good if there was a way to disable the like button on facebook when you are having a nosey around 😊Perhaps there is a way to do this???

Did you know each other at that point or were you aware of them and just being nosey? That's a good result!

The absolute panic 😂

I think the easiest way is to just not be nosey 😬 At least it wasn't someone tangentially related to an ex - more like someone directly related to a current object of affection at work 😫

Change your FB name for a while, John Smith might save you and ask chatgp to create you a new profile picture 😂

I once accidently shared a photo of my exes wife and kids and it automatically tagged the "feeling emotional 🥰" thing on it.

I'm no longer on social media at all.

We can't all be on the front line in Ukraine like you.

I would have immediately boarded a plane to another country with just the clothes on my back. And never returned.

😂😂😂😂

Years ago, when FB was new and I had no idea how to use it, I had a HUGE crush on a manager at work. I wanted to FB stalk him, however I typed his name into the 'status' bar and SAVED IT!! I left it there for hours before someone told me what id done .... the embarrassing was of the chart

As lovely as that is, I don't think that's going to help here 😂

I had a friend request that was instantly cancelled from my sister's husband's ex, I have to admit I did screenshot it and send it to her but beyond a brief 'someone's having a snoop' we didn't really comment or think about it again - I wouldn't worry too much, it's something a lot of people think is fairly normal now! I went on a date recently (just the one for obvious reasons 😂) where half way through he mentioned my ex by name, and admitted he knew because he'd stalked me beforehand. No shame at all!

In the early stages of dating, I found photos on FB (from about 15 years ago) of DH and his then girlfriend at a Halloween party. A while later, he mentioned something in passing about hating fancy dress and I casually mentioned (in a complete non-stalker way 😂) that I knew that wasn't true as he went to a Halloween party with his ex and wore a costume to that. He looked at me like I was insane and we never spoke of it again 😆😭

🤣🤣🤣

I love all the Facebook stories of accidental likes and tags.

The one that cracks me up so much is poster who tagged herself as the baby in a picture of her ex with his new wife and a baby.

I accidentally liked a photo of my ex from about 15 years ago - I’d spent ages going through photos of him so it was really obvious. I don’t dare look through anyone’s photos anymore. Facebook need to have a button to disable the likes!

😅😅

Can’t you just unlike it.

Oh god that’s funny 🤣

You can but I'm sure they still get the notification?

Yes but the recipient will still get a notification regardless, with the name of the person that 'liked' it.

I've done it OP, I don't believe anyone that says they haven't dabbled ina bit of SM stalking. And whenever you stalk, you put yourself at risk of a similar faux pas 😅

I think even if you unlike it they still receive a notification that you liked it. This also needs to be changed

"Are you going to be delving deep into a rabbit hole of your exes new life / new boyfriend's previous life? If so, please tick this box and we will set you to ghost mode where you will be physically unable to like / follow / comment on / share anything at all and will remain anonymous to stalk investigate until your hearts content"