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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had once shown a co-worker a photo of my kids on my phone and then he for some reason swiped -- I'm positive it was just without thinking -- and there was a "glam" selfie of me in a mirror that I took to text new mascara to a friend. It was nothing risqué, but it was funny to see the "deer stuck in headlights" look on his face as he realized that he could have swiped to something more personal. I gently took my phone back from his frozen hands and we never discussed it LOL.

Back to your post, I agree with everyone else that your MIL was in the wrong. It also took me a SUPER LONG time as a young adult occasionally visiting home and having my laptop open to get my own mother out of the habit of just coming up and looking at my screen.[/quote]

I had a friend who used to do this with my phone all the time. We'd be at a party or getting coffee and I'd pull out my phone to send a text or look something up, and she would just instinctively look at the screen.

The looking was annoying but I get that it might have been instinctive. But what really irked me was that she would then feel like it was okay to interrogate me about what she'd see. Numerous times she'd see something on one of my social media apps for instance, and feel like it was okay to start asking me about it -- stuff like why I was looking at a certain person's profile photo or whatever. It really crossed a line from normal curiosity to straight up invasive. Just because she's super nosy and can't keep her eyes to herself does not mean I need to explain anything. A true MYOB moment. [/quote]

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