To be so embarrassed?

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Was facebook stalking a new male colleague. No reason really, just wanted to find out more about him.
Not sure how on earth I managed it but I ended up sharing his profile photo on my own page. Been up for at least an hour and sure people from work have seen.
Literally dying of embarrassment

I'm sorry op 😂 😂 but that's made me laugh!
I'm wheezing at the baby tag comment! 😂🤣
Also half of MN are panicking about linked in now too! (Myself included)

You need to quit your job, flee the country and get a new identity!

You might be my DH’s ex! I saw she had seen some of my insta stories years ago. I didn’t really mind or think anything of it though. I’d had a peek at her social media previously just out of curiosity more than anything else. I did set my profile to private when I saw that though so it was pretty obvious to her that I had seen her. She must have cringed. I never said anything and we do have a good relationship as we share custody of DSS.

Thank you for this thread, really made me feel better after recent antics. I'm nearly 40 and recently developed an all encompassing crush on much younger colleague. Sitting with new work friend, was in process of adding her into my social media, she went to type in her name and there in the search bar were many, many variations of his name in my desperate attempt to find him. She definitely saw but didn't say anything.

This. This is what I would do

And me too, except it wasn’t the ex, it was her sister!! For years I’ve thought my partner did it accidentally - which he completely denied - the penny has just dropped with what happened….. 😂

I am crying 🤣

Oh no OP!! We’ve all been there!! I assume you’ve since deleted the post though? If you deleted it almost instantly, it may be possible that none of your colleagues seen it! Also, he may not know either!!
But I know, I’d be mortified too ! 😂😂

This made me laugh so much! Say you were telling a friend about your new colleague at work and she said she knew someone with the same name so you wanted to check if it was the same person and must have accidentally shared his picture when you were showing her?

Yeah that's a good reason to be embarrassed tbf

Change your FB name to one that's similar to a colleague you don't like and either hide your profile, OR steal photos of someone else and build a new visible persona that's not you? Note you can't change back for 60 days so you'll have to explain your profile's been hacked to everyone. Even if the click in question still links to your old profile name the confusion will add credence to the hacking story. Put up repeated ads for cheap Ray-Bans with very large pixels.
This has cheered me up no end, and the LinkedIn reactions too!

that given me the giggles

I hope he's your friend cause then you could just blame it on your kids or sitting on your phone or something but if he's not your friend then it's to much of a coincidence to accidentally have shared a picture of someone you work with 😂

Make another FB profile with your name and same profile photo. Send lots of friends requests to your FB friends from your new profile. Then from your old (real) profile, put a post saying "If you get a friend request from me, don't accept it, I've been hacked!"

If you have a very close friend who you can trust with your faux pas, then for extra credibility, get them to post a message on your profile saying "Hey I got a friend request from you at X pm (get them to put a time from before you shared his picture) Is this you or have you been hacked?"

Jobs a gooden!

can you not just say you noticed his profile and realised he worked there and clicked to like the photo and accidentally hit share instead

Only if you are in private mode, which I didn't know existed until reading this post. I kept looking at an ex's LinkedIn profile because the picture wasn't great so I wasn't sure if it was him or not. I looked multiple times <cringe>

Ffs....literally can't breathe. Imagine!!!!

One of my favourite ever mn posts:

Share all your other colleagues profiles as well and round it off with the comment "I work with a great team, shout out to all my colleagues".

Solidarity and sympathies OP, because you just know you will still remember this in a decade or more's time and break out in a cold sweat as though it was just yesterday.

Roughly a decade ago I was up far too late scrolling on FB and decided to search for a male colleague; typed his full name and then 'enter' into the bit where you create a status, rather than the search bar then got on with other things and had it pointed out to me the following morning after someone commented on it. I was so appalled at myself that I deleted my account entirely and hoped I'd somehow got away with that. He asked me about it directly the next day at work, pissing himself laughing, which was presumably a hilarious experience for him but the opposite for me. Entirely my own fault, but god.

Turn it around. Accuse the new colleague of stalking you and say that's just not appropriate work behaviour here

Oh my lord, I remember this too!! I think I’d die on the spot 🤣🤣

Dying for you. I'd probably change my name and leave the country. All you can do is laugh it off. I have a fear that one day I will accidentally "post" my search instead

That's comedy gold!

Same! Oops!

Oh god, this is awful and amazing, I'm so sorry for your suffering, OP!
I once tagged myself in a picture of the woman my ex had cheated on me with. Didn't notice until a mutual friend pointed it out... Still haunted.