Friend catfishing neighbour on Insta - tell him?

[TwinklyBlueEagle]

My friend made a fake account for laughs on Instagram last year using photos of a model from Brazil and she has started using the account to catfish one of our neighbours because she thinks it’s funny. She has made it look very genuine and if I didn’t know it was fake I’d think it was a real account.

I personally think it’s really naughty to deceive someone I know into forming a relationship with a fake woman. I jokily told her she should stop but she didn’t think I meant it. The whole thing doesn’t sit right with me though but if I tell him she’ll think I’m a right backstabber.

It's bullying, she's doing it to humiliate him!
She wouldn't like it if someone did this to her.
You should have told her more than just "jokingly" that she should stop, i'd be very bloody harsh and tell her she's being a complete bitch!
I couldn't stay friends with someone willing to do this.

Has he wronged her in some way? bIs she intereseted in him and he's not so shes trying to get revenge etc?

Doesn't sound much of a good friend, I'd tell him if you weren't bothered about talking to her again. It is very immature

Report the account on Instagram. Get it shut down.

That's really horrible. An ex student did that to another student where I worked. It really devastated him as he'd sent intimate messages and photos. I'd nip it in the blood and tell them.

It’s not naughty, it’s downright cruel to toy with someone else’s emotions. She needs to stop this before someone gets hurt. Tell her that if she doesn’t stop it then you will let the neighbour know.

How would your friend react if someone was doing this to her for a laugh because they thought it was funny? That’s where the answer lies. If she wouldn’t like it then tell her to stop and tip him off is she refuses. I wouldn’t really care if she thought I was a backstabber. At least I’d know I wasn’t as nasty and unpleasant as her.

If this is true it's a horrible thing to do.

Why does your friend need to boost her ego by making a fool of someone? What's wrong with her?

Tell him, gently.
Reconsider who you have as friends.

Your friend sounds like a childish bullying twat and I'd be reassessing why I was friends with her (as well as reporting the account, and/or telling the neighbour).

I'd be thinking twice about being friends with such a horrible bully

She's not been naughty fgs , it's downright mean and emotionally humiliating.

I'd tell her she's a horrible person and she should stop.
I'd also report the fake account because even if she stops taunting your neighbour she could move onto some other poor bugger.

Ask your friend to watch Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare on Netflix. Catfishing is not funny, it's playing with someone's emotions and deceiving them. This person you consider a friend is horrible.

It's "nip it in the bud" just so you know! ☺️

I couldn't be friends with someone who was so cruel. Report the account and slip the neighbour a note or message before he gets any more emotionally invested.

Having been on the recieving end of a "joke" like this, it's humiliating and devastating. I was tricked into believing a lad I liked was interested in me, ending up with 19 year old me waiting outside of a pub for him for our "first date" only for one of my friends to show up and tell me the entire thing had been a joke she's been playing. It took me years to get over it, and even now I'm extra wary about starting new relationships.

She's being absolutely awful and no one deserves to be treated that way.

Nice bit of victim blaming there.

Naughty? You jokingly told her!?

Why don’t you dare to stand up for what you believe in op?

Tell her she's a shit person.

What an awful thing to do. He’ll be humiliated when he finds out. Tell her to stop now or you’ll tell him.

Why has she gone for your neighbour specifically? Did she initiate the contact?

She also sounds like she has far too much time on her hands.

I know right, who the hell has time for this childish stuff ?

How old is your friend op? And why specifically your neighbour ? Is he vulnerable in any way Is that why she's doing this to him?
She sounds like a right twat

“I jokily told her she should stop but she didn’t think I meant it.”

Of course she didn’t think you meant it if you told her ‘jokingly’. You need to tell her straight it’s an awful thing to do

What?? A ridiculous assertion. Very wrong, very rude and you are reported.

what everyone else has said. Why do you want to stay friends with someone who can do such a cruel thing for a joke? oh and its not "really naughty" its thoroughly unpleasant.

I would tell him, but to be fair I wouldn't care if I fell out with her because i don't think I would want to be friends with someone who can do something so revolting.

Reported for what?? 😂😂

I'd tell him. It's nasty behaviour on the part of your friend. I wouldn't want to be friends with someone like that.