Embarrassing accidental things on Facebook/Instagram!

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What’s the most embarrassing thing you’ve managed to do on Facebook/Instagram? I’m talking accidentally liking someone’s photo from 2010, adding someone by accident, sharing someone’s photo etc? These always crack me up.

Made me think as today I accidentally watched the Instagram story of a man I dated for a while several years ago and haven’t spoken to since (I am happy with DP now!) - he came up as someone I might know and I clicked on his page to be nosy. I didn’t realise that if you click on the person’s profile it shows you their most recent story?! I’m cringing as it will show him I’ve watched it - I don’t even follow him!!

Oh well - there are worse things I am sure!!

When DD was a newborn DH put a photo of her on FB without checking the background. The next day my mum messaged to say did you realise you’re naked in that mirror behind the bed?
We were both so sleep deprived neither of us had noticed! And the photo had about 80 likes by the time my mum saw it.

Oh my god this thread has given me the best laugh in ages

In my early days of using WhatsApp, I messaged a friend who was talking about how she needed to go for a wax. I commiserated that my bikini area was burgeoning. I had posted to a group by mistake. The group was for fellow students on a professional course and most of them were acquaintances (of both sexes) at best.

A relative of mine, who loves a gossip thought she was sending a private message. Instead she posted a really long diatribe on another relative's facebook wall being very indiscreet and rude about other family members and various friends. She didn't realise for a long time... The cringe. Thank you for this thread I have not laughed properly like this for a long time...

Also posted a name as a status instead of searching. Didn't realise until the next morning.

A friend was Instagram stalking someone and showed me a pic of them from years ago. I double clicked to zoom, but it turns out that's not how you zoom in instagram. My friend had 'liked' a picture from c.5 years ago.

I was flicking through Facebook on my phone when DS (4) shouted that he needed help with something. Dropped the phone without turning it off, and went into his room.

DD (2) must have wandered in and picked it up, found the "People you may know" section, and added all of them. I didn't realise until some people started accepting, and I've no idea how many of my "requests" are still out there, either rejected or unanswered.

I've done a few which is why I no longer have social media accounts.

The worst one would be on Facebook messenger though. I was on a long distance train journey early one morning for work. For some reason I thought I was feeling reflective and decided to take a look back at old Facebook messages from my ex (more FWB) who pretty much ghosted me. By this point I had seen from Facebook he already had a new girlfriend and so had deleted him already. I was scrolling through the messages, which were mainly the booty call kind of messages he would send when he wanted something and feeling quite annoyed by it. As the reception on the train was bad, my phone was loading the messages slowly and there was quite a lag. I must have been doing it for around 15 minutes, scrolling back to months of messages. Then somehow, with the lag on my phone and perhaps the tiredness, I managed to press the 'thumbs up'... So a guy who pretty much ghosted me, who I hadn't spoken to in 6 months or so, had a new girlfriend and I had deleted from Facebook, I sent a massive thumbs up to. Panicked as I couldn't delete it so the only thing I could think to do with block him (hoping he wouldn't see the message). I have no idea to this day whether he saw the message or not and have never spoken to him since but still cringe when I think about it!

This isn't something that I've done but a few years ago I would get an email if someone new followed me on twitter. One day I got an email that an ex-boyfriend had followed me on twitter (he had obviously done this by accident because he had unfollowed by the time I checked). Obviously his slip up had let me know that he had been snooping on my social media accounts.

I honestly think this is the funniest thread I’ve ever read on MN. Thank you everybody, it’s what we all needed.

Hopefully more add to it, in this age of technology there must be a wealth of oops!

If you read someone's Facebook group such as a business page, can they tell?
Bloody hope not as my name would come up countless times

Howling at this thread! I don't think I've done anything too bad but have definitely come unstuck when trying to zoom in on an instagram picture and accidentally double tapping. My cousin and I then went through quite the testing process to see if the owner of the picture would have got a notification even though I'd unliked it straight away.

The thread has reminded me though of a VERY stressful couple of hours I spent some years ago though. An ex I'm still on good terms with messaged me late at night to advise me that I'd come up in his Linkedin 'connections you may know' with a picture that... well let's just say it wasn't suitable for Linkedin.

I went into a complete blind panic, couldn't remember any of the details to log into Linkedin as I never used it at the time. Sweating cobs and about to have a heart attack because I knew my account was linked to my work email address. Turned out in the end that it had shown him the image he still had saved of me against my contact in his phone, not the perfectly professional one I have on Linkedin. I was so relieved that I didn't even care he still had that picture as my contact image.

These are brilliant

Not long ago I randomly thought I’ll have a quick nose on my exes Facebook, got a bit carried away and before I knew it I was on his partners page nosing. They’d recently just had a baby, I pressed the picture but only went and tagged myself in it at the same time. I didn’t have a clue I’d even done it until a few days later I saw I had a message from her asking who I was and why I had tagged myself in a picture of her newborn

I’ve been in a happy relationship for years but was simply just nosing, but that really taught me to be more careful on Facebook... I still cringe every time I think about it!

I was friend requested by my partners ex’s dog! We both have her blocked on her own profile but then she created one for her dog and I got a friend request from it. It’d been removed and she’d blocked me a couple of mins later but obviously I screenshot the request as it came through 🤣

@YellowEllis

Tagged myself as my ex boyfriends new baby in a photo he'd uploaded. We weren't even Facebook friends. My sister phoned me in hysterics asking if I'd realised what I'd done. Still no clue how I managed it to be honest

This is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read! 😂😂😂

This whole thread is hilarious. Also love tagging the overweight man in the football crowd 😂

I've thought of something to add, to my shame I've accidentally wassapped and Facebook messaged CALLED people when stalking their posts/re reading messages. Drunken cringe for days

This one is not one of mine but was on a friend's timeline recently. She has taken a photo of her weight on reflective scales and she isn't wearing pants. I think this one went viral! The humiliation
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@dividedwefall I've actually seen that on Twitter. Always assumed it was a hoax!

Some of my friends have special Instagram account only for stalking hahab

@dividedwefall I’ve seen that one too, but without the “be kind” writing on it.

@dividedwefall - yes, this has been on social media for months but you can't actually see anything with the 'be kind' banner on it so it doesn't really make sense with that covering what is meant to be thing that makes it 'funny'.

My worst has to be when I won a couple of awards on subjects I had sat as part of a professional accounting qualification. I was studying it at night in a college which ran a large number of degree courses. The award ceremony was being held at the degree graduation ceremony. Myself and dh arrived at the venue and I gave my details. I was told to join a particular queue and the next thing I was handed a cap and gown which I put on. I thought I looked so great swaggering around I it and asked dh to take a photo of me which he uploaded to FB straight away. A call was then announced for guests to take their seats, so dh had to go and I said I would look around to see if I noticed any familiar faces. Eventually I spotted a small group wearing suits and I recognised one of the faces. I went over and said why am I wearing this and you all aren't. I had to rush off and change out of the gown and went into the toilet to untag myself from the photo but there were already over 30 congratulatory posts and even more likes. We did manage to have a good laugh after but I still cringe when I think of how I owned that look and it wasn't even mine.

I was snooping on DP's Sister's IG once (cannot stand her, haven't spoken or been in the same room as her for over 10 years), accidentally hit Follow, realised immediately but she must have been online at the time as it was accepted and a request sent back to Follow me before I'd even had chance to cancel it! Fucking mortified. I unfollowed, declined her request and blocked her so fast!

Told DP who just laughed at me lol I dont know if it was ever mentioned as they were NC at the time and have only just started talking, still low contact.

My DH posted some photos of our new baby, in the delivery suite, shortly after she was born. Sadly, one of the photos had me in the background, legs akimbo, feet in stirrups, waiting to be stitched. He took it down a while later, after his brother called him, still don't know to this day who else saw! Mortified.

I invited someone I haven't spoken to in years to a Halloween party once as they had a very similar name to a close friend.