Ow from years ago viewing my Profile

[Ladybird37]

Divorced 4+ years ago and see that ex's partner who was the ow in our breakup has just viewed my Instagram? Why now? I've never looked for her and account is in a different name.

She probably suspects him of straying and is checking it’s not with you!

Curiosity ?

Insecurity? Suspicion? Maybe about u and ur ex

How do you know she has looked at your Instagram?

Could it have come up through mutual friends/local connection and she just clicked out of idle curiosity? Or would she have to specifically search for you? I don't have insta so don't know how it works.

I will admit to occasionally searching for someone I haven't seen/heard from in years because a random thing reminded me of them and I wonder what they're up to.

I'd be inclined to assume something relatively benign unless there was evidence otherwise.

You can't see who has viewed your Instagram.

You can see who had viewed your stories on Instagram though. I assume that's what the OP means.

.. well maybe not Instagram, but another non-Facebook forum. Ex remains very hostile about me to our child and I just don't respond, so I don't think she'd think that. I just wonder why after all this time.

I agree with @Emmelina

She knows what he's like...

God knows why they do this. My exh's gf looks at mine and I post nothing other than my cat and day trips out - nothing personal and no photos of my family etc. She sometimes accidentally likes a photo and then unlikes it which gives me a chuckle that she's insecure about me for some reason.
My exh also follows me on Instagram for some reason - we divorced almost 4yrs ago by mutual decision and have no reason to keep in touch.

Yes, it was a shock to see and I presume she absolutely knows. I've blocked, but it's strange. I'll try and forget it. Thanks for the opinions, I was reading the other ow thread on here and it's interesting to hear others experiences

Honestly probably pure nosiness. If someone comes up on my ‘People you may know’ or similar (I don’t have any other social media but would do the same!) I’ll have a little nose if I’m particularly bored. Doesn’t even mean they’re relevant to my life at the time, can be a ‘omg remember this person! I wonder what happened with them?’ Sort of thing. Although admittedly I’ve never been the OW! But I can imagine it might be this sort of scenario?

Linked in?
I wouldn’t worry about it. Perhaps you came up as ‘suggested’ as curiosity got the better of her.

😂 Emmelina has it spot on!

Ex remains very hostile about me to our child so I don't think she'd think that

It's a fine line between love and hate...

You can see who had viewed your stories on Instagram though. I assume that's what the OP means.

But don't you only see the stories of people you follow? I've just clicked on some insta accounts of people I know but don't follow and I can't see any stories.

You can't see who has viewed your Instagram.

I was going to say you can't see who has viewed your profile thinking OP was on about FB, but IG you can definitely see who views your stories as it tells you who has viewed them (presuming you're set to public of course.)
Whether they follow you or not (I know this as I'm on IG and occasionally put up stories)

My ex (10 years and counting)'s partner looks me up on LinkedIn occasionally. It makes me chuckle. I've blocked them both on all social media so I really love getting these familiar notifications!

I also had a fantastic promotion recently, after a complete career change (retraining, college, voluntary placements etc) a few years ago. Funny how I'd be nothing without him yet his new dp is the one stalking me!

FieldOfFlameAndHeather, to see the stories of people you don’t follow, you click on their profile photo if they have the coloured ring around it. sorry to derail

Bold fail