His best friend added me?

[hope19]

Hey guys, it's been a little while! I've been doing very well the last few weeks especially. I decided to kick the habit of checking my ex's social media daily as well as his new gf's. About one month "sober" lol. Anyways, I'm writing because yesterday out of the blue I got a follow request on instagram from one of my ex's closest friends at his college. I wouldn't be so suspicious if we had spoken before or had mutual friends, but neither of those are the case. He followed me back in september when my ex and I were kind of still together and he would go to this friend for advice. Once we officially broke things off, this friend unfollowed me after my ex did. I find it weird as we have never spoken before and it was so out of the blue. As far as I know my ex is still with his new girlfriend but I refuse to check their social media to find out, in fear of kicking up the old habit. I guess I'm just confused on the reasoning behind this. I'm tempted to just message the guy asking why but as of now I'm thinking keep doing nothing and push forward. What are your thoughts?

 

*another weird thing: about a month ago my ex blocked me on twitter, 6 months after we broke up. We have not spoken, had not been following each other, I didn't accidentally "like" anything he posted, so there was no real reasoning behind it. The only thing I can think of is maybe he was forcing himself to stop checking my account, something he admitted to routinely doing while we were together and even while we still talked after we broke up. This blocking is what made me officially decide to stop looking at their social media lol it was my final straw.

[milly007]

I wouldn't read too much into it.

 

When it comes to social media, anything goes.

 

I have people sending friend requests on FB and we were never friends. Same goes for Insta.

 

Sometimes I think people are so thirsty for 'likes' and 'followers' on social media that they're willing to add anyone to increase the likes and their social media following in general.

[hope19]

I wouldn't read too much into it.

 

When it comes to social media, anything goes.

 

I have people sending friend requests on FB and we were never friends. Same goes for Insta.

 

Sometimes I think people are so thirsty for 'likes' and 'followers' on social media that they're willing to add anyone to increase the likes and their social media following in general.

 

true it's just weird to me because it's not like I would have appeared under "suggested friends" since we had no mutual friends, so he would have had to go out of his way to look me up

[RayRay63]

You may well be overthinking it. Let's say your ex got a bit curious and asked his friend to send the request, so as to see what you've been posting. It doesn't mean much.

 

Ignore the request and block their social media as well.

[Wiseman2]

The best way to move forward and heal is to block and delete him and all his people. Also invest more time in your own real friends and dating again.