Can I be sued for posting harassment?
Location: Michigan
Harasser: Tennessee
A woman dm'd me on Instagram in February, threatening to ruin my life/career and insulting me because a man she wanted was taking me out for Valentine's day. She had/has a boyfriend in Tennessee but my date was her ex, and she didn't want me going out with him. That's despite never interacting with me before spawning in my inbox to be hateful.
I don't take kindly to that sort of thing at all. I don't identify as the bigger person.
I made an Instagram page to post screenshots of her original messages, posted screenshots of her insulting me in the page's dms, and shared my thoughts/feelings on her treatment of me along with context for why her arguments are bullshit. The profile pic is a picture of her and her current boyfriend, the name on the account is her name, and her name and location are in the page tag (@first.last.city). Her college is tagged in the bio, and I've tagged the school in a few posts.
Am I petty? Yes. Do I hold grudges? Happily.
She's telling me she's gonna sue me, I truly don't think she has a case. I've only posted unedited screenshots of her behavior, with the exception of a rebuttal to her being self-victimizing (trying to blame her behavior towards me on my valentine's date abusing her 5 years ago, "he's a POS I'm tryna get out of my life, I've suffered bc of him" yadda yadda more incongruous senselessness). In the rebuttal, I state my understanding of their history and I do say that she should correct me if anything is inaccurate. She hasn't reached out since.
Lawyers of reddit, am I doing anything illegal? I'm fine with my own childishness if it's non-collectable.
Also, even if I am doing something that can get me in court, how is that likely to play out? If I delete the page after I get a legal letter and she's wasted time/energy/money fighting this, what then? If we go to court, what's a likely outcome?
Lastly, I'll add that I did delete the page briefly and told her it's because she'll never learn. But I felt insanely self-abandoned because she just insulted and threatened me until I gave up on her. I decided she can't talk to me like that and get her way, so the page went back up. When it went back up, she had an opportunity to make it right that she bungled. If I get a favorable judgment in this forum, I'll probably just lose the password and log out forever (keeping it public). Thank you!