Here’s how to tell when someone’s been stalking your Instagram ?

As a completely well-adjusted, normal human, I only have a few requests in this life. Chief among them: I want to know if my crush knows I'm alive and also maybe likes me back.

Instagram isn't a miracle worker — it won't be able to flat out tell me if my crush likes me, but they can help me play Pretty Little Liars murder-mystery CW girl detective to deduce if my crush knows I'm alive. And that's good enough for me.

There's a way for us to know if our crushes have been peeping us the same way we've been secretly trying to peep them: Instagram stories.

Maybe it's not a surprise to you, maybe it is but, as with Snapchat, you can see who views your Instagram Stories. You can see how many people see your story but then don't have the human decency to like your photos.

It's great ammunition to call people out but it's also great for discovering that your crush, the one you don't follow and who doesn't follow you, has looked at your profile.

They might have been peeping you this entire time and you had no idea. As long as you have a public account or you both follow each other, your crush can see your story in all of its glory.

I'm not saying that my crush likes me just because he looked at my story. What I am saying is that he knows I'm alive even though we don't follow each other and he was intrigued enough to click over to my profile and look at my story.

And now that I know he peeps my story I will only post thirst-trappy, inspriational, "omg my life is amazing" content to try and manipulate him into wanting me.

That's how you get someone to like you, right? Manipulation?

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@jenniferficarra