To cut a long and boring story short - I set up an Instagram blog/account last year during lockdown to help with my depression. I kept it anonymous but public (but never reveal my identity) and have always treated it as a hobby as it focuses on a particular passion of mine, interior design. Only my husband and son know about it’s existence. I’ve since gained thousands of followers and get real joy from the community on there, despite everybody being complete strangers.
Fast forward to last week. My son accidentally (not his fault, I never ask him to lie) told my mother in law about it’s existence. She and my father in law have subsequently (immediately) joined Instagram, followed my account and send me daily updates on their thoughts, criticisms and perspective on my posts…
It sounds so petty to moan about this but I should caveat this with the following - once they discovered it and questioned me about it, I made it clear that none of my friends even know about it as it is just a hobby..yet they still both decided to follow me and critique it daily. They are typically nosey people, they are both retired and spend hours on Facebook poring over and gossiping about people (a reason why I left it). They are also very controlling, they like to know everything about everyone’s business, so I did get a huge sinking feeling when they learnt about this. I feel like it’s the equivalent of having a badminton hobby and then my in laws turn up and start shouting at me for how wrong I’m doing it 
I also realise this sounds incredibly petty 
please don’t flame me. I know there are bigger things going on in the world, my husband thinks I’m being dramatic 
I probably am. I just feel like I found a lovely hobby that was all mine and my in laws have just stomped all over it. Uh, I’m just looking for advice really. Is blocking a big no-no? x