Looking for opinions really on this behaviour. Sorry for the length of this and thank you if you make it to the bottom!
As far as I have known this has been going on for about 15 years. My very close friend has a cousin who we are also quite close friendship wise. My friend has a closer relationship and can probably bring up topics I can’t with her (she is ultra-sensitive and the slightest thing can trigger her)
Easier to summarise:
• Cousin of friend is making MULTIPLE fake accounts on Facebook of men. Not just 1 or 2 but we are talking about 10-15 different accounts.
• All the accounts comment on her normal facebook photos and statuses saying how ‘beautiful’ she is, how she has an amazing body and how they want to have sex with her.
• The scary part is the language for each of the accounts is totally different and she is really keeping this up. For example spelling is different and general language tone.
• She is having active conversations with these accounts on facebook under her photos so we can all see (work colleges, family etc), all the comments can range from 2- 85. So really she is talking to herself through these different accounts.
• Obsessively posts daily photos of herself with cleavage, all the accounts comments to say she is fit, sexy and over derogatory comments I cannot say on here. The most rudest I could mention is I would love to ‘motorboat’ your breasts (and other things!) All in front of family and friends on facebook. Honestly I cannot believe some of the comments. Some comments even stating they are having wet dreams about her!
• The cousin is following one male celebrity also where she actively comments on EVERY single photo the poor man puts up, saying how gorgeous and sexy he is. How she has special ‘dreams’ of him and how she wants to meet him and ‘give him a good time’. One ‘admin’ I think on the account commented on her post to say they have noticed how much she comments and wants to ‘thank’ her? Is this a warning for her to likely back off a bit?
This has been going on for at least 15 years. She has episodes where it’s not happening and then all of a sudden there will be a serious fluctuation of these comments all over her facebook posts.
Sadly they are quite clearly fake as the profile photo has been taken off Google (we found) and randomer’s facebooks. The accounts only have about 2 friends and it’s overall an extremely fake account. My friend has mentioned that she has noticed Cousin switch from her facebook account to one of the fake ones which Cousin quickly hid the screen.
She is the topic of conversation as soon as she leaves any friends gathering as we are all aware of what she is doing. Whilst I feel so bad for her, my friend has tried to bring it up a couple of times and it has gone seriously south. It apparently falls on death ears. She also gets defensive and will go days or weeks without seeing or talking to friend as a way to punish her for bringing it up. It’s a toxic cycle and nothing seems to be changing.
I’m worried about this type of behaviour and what it can lead to. The accounts that she has made up are having genuinely, life-like conversations with her. I believe she is aware a couple of us know but she is still doing it.
She has had some triggering events in the past and she did lose a sister about 4 years ago which we feel has made her behaviour a lot worse. I know she has seeked counselling for it and I think as far as I know she may be on some type of medication but im not sure on that. She is overall a lovely girl but has jealous tendencies etc (friends who have babies and are married as she doesnt have kids or is married herself herself) she has lost a lot of friends in the past as she tends to fall out with them (or they call her out on these fake accounts and she has gone cold turkey on them)
Just wanted an opinion on really on what this sounds like.
I haven’t bought it up with friend for a while now as I don't feel it's really my business but I could never forgive myself if something happened to her and I hadn't tried to do something?