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[quote=Anonymous]To be generous to her, she is probably posting largely to show off the party itself, if it was a catered affair with a lot of prep/decor/etc. She wants kudos for it and for people to oooh and aaah about how great it looks. She is probably not thinking about how people who weren't invited might feel left out. People can be really oblivious and self-centered -- if she thought about you seeing it at all, she probably thought something like "oh, she's going to be so impressed by my floral arrangements!" or something. Or she might have realized that it would make someone like you feel left out, but figured that's a you problem and not worth giving up the accolades and validation she will get from posting.

Social media is such a minefield. I'm bad at not looking but work pretty hard at it -- I have gotten off certain platforms altogether, I regularly remove the ones I've stayed from from my phone so it's harder to look, I have rules for myself (I don't view IG stories, for instance, as a rule -- I can scroll but I have successfully trained myself not to look at stories and stuck to it because I don't like that people can see that I've viewed their stories, I don't want people to know I care that much and the only way to avoid it is to simply not look, even though I actually am pretty curious and do care).

But hugs to you OP -- I've had stuff like that happen to me as well and it's a miserable feeling even when it feels like you shouldn't care. I really think life would be easier if we knew less about what everyone else was doing all the time. [/quote]

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