To want to shake her?

[hopeitsnottooouting]

So, really really hope this isn’t too outing.
One of my best friends is a so called “Instagram influencer”
She has around 30k followers and has got these over the past maybe 2 years.
I spent another play date with her yesterday basically ignoring me and ignoring her kids purely so she can post constantly on Instagram.
In the 4 hours I saw her she posted approx 25 times.
Anything from photos of the kids, to the menu, to videos describing the place, to photos showing the weather where we were, selfies of herself, photos of herself with forkfuls of food about to go in her mouth.
Because she has so many followers she’s invited to events maybe once a month, just parties or grand openings. She also gets a few freebies or samples a month that she’ll review.
I am in no way jealous of her, but I’m worried.
Her kids are getting neglected. In the 4 hours yesterday she barely spoke to them, lost them numerous times, left one with a dirty nappy for ages and basically dumped the child care of our 5 combined kids to me.
She’s ignoring her friends as she’s just sat on instagram.
She’s ignoring her husband and he’s threatening to leave her over her Instagram use.
You genuinely cannot even have a 5 minute conversation without her going “hang on a sec” and interrupting you to Instagram.
She is so so bloody boring.
Her house has gone downhill, there’s no clean clothes for the kids and it’s filthy.
She’s even cut family days short as there’s no 3G so she’s got no signal to post.
Apparently she needs to post every 10/15 mins to keep followers?
She is wrecking her whole family just to be popular on Instagram.
I just can’t be arsed to be around her, likewise most of her friends.
Why can’t she see what she’s missing out on right in front of her?

Oh and by the way I was no where near as obsessed as your friend! Her poor kids and partner. It does sound like she’s very unhappy with her ‘real’ life and is trying to make herself feel better by creating this fake one.

See I like Instagram follow people but don't post. Mainly look at food, places I'll probably never visit and cats! Some of the people I follow with 65k or 100k+ follows only post once or twice a day. 40 post a day is crazy that would put me off following someone!

Just a side point but it makes you wonder how much, in real terms, some of the more glossy instamums are losing out on as there’s an awful lot of effort, time & focus needed to curate some of these feeds. I wonder if personal relationships and real life is suffering, as it were. Getting my DC to pose for any sort of half decent picture is like nailing jelly to a wall, for example. I give up after 30 seconds.