I’m not much of social media user and a technophobe really. I do have an Instagram account but don’t post on it and don’t follow anyone I know, I only have it to follow foodies and posts related to my hobby. I don’t really know all the ins and outs of how it works.
Following a conversation with a friend the other day about in our lives we felt had been “the one”, I did the stupid thing that you are never supposed to do of looking up an ex on Instagram. I had looked on his account about a year ago and it was public and then when I checked a few weeks later it was private. Anyway, as I say I had a bit of a week moment and looked it up again. I wasn’t on the app, I was viewing it on IOS on my iPad as I don’t have the app on there. His profile came up and I could see everything. I was actually looking for something specific (to see if he’d been at the same gig as me recently as I thought he might have been) and clicked on two pictures but that was all. I was on it for matter of seconds and I was VERY careful that I didn’t double click. The post I’d opened was a few pictures put together and I looked at the first two but once I realised it wasn’t the same gig, I pressed the browser back button to get back to the main page with the intention of pressing it again to get out of his page. Instead it took me to a page saying “This page is no longer available” and when I tried to load his page again it said “this account is private”.
Now I’m being completely paranoid that he somehow knew I was looking and then set his account to private. Logically I know the only way he could have known I’d been on it would have been if I’d liked a post. I did look in likes and it doesn’t say I’ve liked one of his posts. I also didn’t view his story. I’m a little confused as last time I checked, his account had been private anyway.
Could it be a possibility that it was a glitch on Instagram whereby I was for a brief moment able to see his account? I’m never doing this again because I feel really embarrassed that he may know I’ve looked at his profile!
I also know I’m being ridiculous by looking him up and that I shouldn’t have done that.