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Have you ever gone off someone after seeing what they like on Instagram or Fb?

9 replies

Butyourenotastrangermadeline · 10/12/2025 14:37

I notice this with the option to see what friends have liked on Instagram and have been shocked or irritated by a few friends and its sort of put me off them

Anyone else?

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surreygirly · 10/12/2025 14:39

No everyone is entitled to their views
I have blocked a couple of people who kept sending stuff about the Labour party though as I have no interested in others political opinions

Butyourenotastrangermadeline · 10/12/2025 14:40

surreygirly · 10/12/2025 14:39

No everyone is entitled to their views
I have blocked a couple of people who kept sending stuff about the Labour party though as I have no interested in others political opinions

Of course they’re entitled, but has it ever put you off someone or made you feel
a little differently about them?

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TheCountessAtChristmas · 10/12/2025 14:40

I hate that Instagram has done this. Its not really put me off people seeing what they have liked but there has been a few ive raised my eyebrow and realised people really do have their own narrative...

dizzydizzydizzy · 10/12/2025 14:57

Well a couple of people certainly went off me due to Facebook posts: Or it might have been 3 people actually.

Person 1 was a former colleague and friend. At the time I worked with her (early 1990s). At that timed she was very interested in yoga and spiritualism and also mountain biking. Her politics were fairly left, despite being American. She returned to the United States and took her much older partner who was from the European country we were both living in. Her DP only had a tourist visa and stayed on the US so therefore became an illegal immigrant. Over the next few years, my friend became 'radicalised' by her DP and became extreme right. She started posting about how brilliant Trump was, how dangerous vaccines wet and, ironically, how evil illegal immigrants are.

During the pandemic, when she posted about the dangers of vaccines (all bullshit), I often put in a comment with a link to what scientists and doctors say about vaccines. She got fed up this, messaged me saying I was very opinionated and then unfriended me.

Person 2 had similar views to Person 1, but didn't post such extreme things or as frequently. I sometimes used to question her views too (always in a polite qnd respectful manner). She unfriended me with no explanation.

Person 3 - I unfriended them because they kept telling me that my holiday snaps upset them because it reminded them that they hadn't been abroad - even though they had frequently told me over the last 2 or 3 years that they hardly ever look at Facebook. I got very fed up with this and said if they wanted to go abroad they should stop going on short luxurious and very expensive UK breaks and use the money for normal abroad trips instead. I was abroad again and kept wondering if my photos were upsetting them and in the end just decided to unfriend them too to stop the hassle. Having told me repeatedly that they hardly look at Facebook, they contacted me within hours to ask why I had unfriended them!

Ablondiebutagoody · 10/12/2025 15:33

No. Knowing that they use Instagram is enough for me.

JHound · 10/12/2025 15:46

Yep - I have done.

I also have blocked somebody for what they like on social media (a former acquaintance of mine who seemed to have a thing for misogynist / redpilled content.)

Pepperedpickles · 10/12/2025 15:51

I completely fell out with a close friend after she started liking right wing stuff about asylum seekers and them being housed in our town (I’m very left wing, so completely opposed to her views). Just couldn’t stand her after that. We haven’t spoken for a couple of years now.

youalright · 10/12/2025 16:00

Yes had a friend who posts conspiracy theorists. Seems a completely normal person in person. Absolutely obsessed the government is out to get her on social media and lots of antivax posts. She really does come across as an idiot on there. If I posted the flu jab turns you into a raspberry she would believe it and repost it.

SarahAndQuack · 10/12/2025 16:29

Yes - my cousin's wife kept linking to absolutely idiotic conspiracy theories (the kind everyone knows are fake; all over Snopes, etc.) and if anyone said anything, including quite a mild 'Pam, I think that one isn't true,' she would double down about how it was better to be safe. I unfollowed her when she started sharing a sequence of posts about how 'lots' of women had been raped by men who grabbed them out of car parks in broad daylight, so you should always park your car in a space on its own with no one parked around you, in case men in a van should drive up and grab you into the back of their van. Hmm

Also my uncle's wife, who started sharing a load of 'Britain First' posts. Sad

I don't mind the random stuff like people who post photos of their dinner/their cats/whatever, though. Each to their own on that one.

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