DH’s phone was charging on the bedside table while I was in our bedroom breastfeeding our youngest dc/getting the baby to sleep. Throughout the feed, DH's phone buzzed a couple time’s, so after I got the baby to sleep, I tapped the phone screen to check if the notifications were anything important work wise that DH might need to see.
Anyway, when the screen lit up, there was a standard junk email alert, as well as a notification saying:
Parallel Instagram App: (persons username here) has requested to follow you.
Now my phone is an iPhone and I hadn’t heard of a parallel app before, so I quickly googled and the phone that DH has, can run ‘clone’ copies of apps which you have to set up by going in to the settings area.
Thinking this was bizarre - and also a major flashback to something DH and I had gone through before a few years prior, I’ll get to that - I searched the username of the requested followers profile on my phone, to see who might be trying to follow my DH on a parallel version of instagram, and the person only has a one post, but it’s a body shot of them in a bra.
Here’s where my guard went up - a couple years back, I unearthed a separate Instagram account that DH had set up against my knowledge, a few months after the birth of our first dc, purely to follow what were essentially profiles of nothing but basically naked women. Some professional ‘model’ type accounts, but the majority were just general women who like to get their kit off frequently and pose in suggestively. The amount he was following was staggering (over 300 accounts of nothing but these 'sexy' profiles), and the deceit of doing something that seedy behind my back, massively pissed me off. He ended up deleting the account, and we put the situation to bed.
Upon seeing who this requested follower was, coupled with the fact the notification was from a parallel app, I decided to breezily ask DH about it. I simply said ‘oh while I was feeding the baby, your phone went off a few times, so I had a quick look and weirdly, there was a notification from a parallel app? What’s that?’. He went and got his phone off of charge, came back and went ‘uhhh, oh errr, it’s just an email and my mum tagging me on something on Facebook’ - completely ignoring the blatant IG notification that was sitting right there.
I told him I’d saw that it was an Instagram notification and again said that I thought it was weird he had a cloned account. He then sat there for a good 15 minutes acting confused and pulling ‘hmmm what IS this!??’ faces. I say acting, because I can tell when DH is pretending to be miffed about something when he actually knows the answer. He kept saying he didn’t know that he had a cloned account, that the notification must’ve been for his work Instagram account, despite the fact his work account is linked to his personal account so operate from the same, single app and notifications for both don’t appear as ‘parallel’ if that makes sense, they just show up as a good old regular Instagram notification.
I rarely get a chance to look at dhs phone for long, but I’m now wary he’s got another separate account - on this clone, parallel account - and being off of work, bored at home with me and the DC’s has caused him to start cataloguing a library of Instagram nude accounts again.
What do you think?