why do people go private right after you view their profile on instagram?
okay has this happened to anyone before? I need someone to explain this because it keeps happening and i genuinely don’t understand how 😭
there are a few accounts i’ve checked that are PUBLIC. i don’t follow them, i don’t like anything, i don’t interact with their posts, and im specifically talking about times when they don’t even have a story posted. so there should literally be nothing showing them that i was on their profile. i’ll randomly click on their account, look at their profile/posts and leave. then i’ll check again later that day or the next day and suddenly they’ve made their accounts private.
the weirdest part is that some of them eventually go public again after a few weeks. i won’t look at them for a while, then one day i’ll check their profile again while they’re public and somehow they go private again shortly afterward. this has happened enough times with different accounts that it’s starting to freak me out. my friend keeps telling me it’s a coincidence, but HOW is it repeatedly happening right after i look at their profiles?? does Instagram somehow suggest your account to someone after you search for or visit their profile? like do i suddenly show up in their suggested accounts or somewhere else that could make them realize i looked at them? i know Instagram supposedly doesn’t have a “who viewed your profile” feature, and again this is such a strange thing.. has anyone else noticed this?? because once is a coincidence. twice, whatever. but going public → i look → private → weeks later public again → i look again → private again like wth