This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Xavier chapter.
We all have those moments when we are cramming for a test and just need an excuse for a break. Instagram provides a nice and quick distraction to clear our minds. But all you pro-stalkers out there know that a 5 minute news feed scroll through can turn into a 2 hour frenzy of stalking other peoples’ pictures. Here are some stages that all of us stalkers go through.
1. You’re casually scrolling through Instagram for a quick break.
2. You see that one of your newly added Instagram friends – someone you have maybe seen once around campus – posted a picture with a boy.
People are commenting with hearts and kissy faces.
3. Now it’s your job to find out if that’s her boyfriend, half-boyfriend, or just friend. Also to find out how long they’ve been dating if they are in a relationship.
4. You scroll through her profile and click on every picture with this boy, like a pro-investigator.
You scroll all the way down for two years of pictures, just to see how long they have been dating.