TIFU by being a bad Facebook stalker

Obligatory 'this didn't happen today'. It was actually a couple of years ago but we still laugh/cringe about it.


Context; I'd started a new job as part of a training group. 3 of us hung out together; me, my now boyfriend, and our friend Harry. We'd been out together a few times, and each time Harry had said that he would bring his girlfriend, Jen. Every time we met up, Jen wouldn't be there with Harry giving a different reason each time. They weren't tagged on Facebook as 'in a relationship', and after a few different outings it became a running joke between us that Jen didn't actually exist and was his imaginary girlfriend.


A few weeks after we started the job, I'd gone home and was messaging my boyfriend on Christmas Day, when he suddenly messages me 'omg Jen is real, I've found her Facebook!'. He sends a link, which I immediately click on to have a look at her profile. I click on her profile pictures and start to scroll through and I find one of her and Harry, which was uploaded a year or two prior to this. It was a slightly intimate picture as they were in bed together with the covers pulled up, but there was evidently a lack of clothes going on there. Now, I really wish I could say that the fu was me accidentally liking an old photo. But no.


What I actually did, was I accidentally tagged myself in the photo. Of my new friend and his girlfriend in bed. As the bedpost.


I knew what I'd done immediately, but there was nothing I could do. Back then you couldn't untag yourself on the mobile Facebook app, which became evident after a minute or two of panicked clicking. Ok, lets try logging in on the browser on my phone and untag myself that way. The fates were not my friend, as this also failed to work. I am wasting precious minutes, making it more and more likely that she will see the notification that someone has tagged one of her photos. Laptop it is. I bolt upstairs to grab my (not particularly new) laptop, which suddenly decides that this is an appropriate time to update itself. My boyfriend is wetting himself at my frantic messages asking how to untag myself. Eventually the laptop decides it has tormented me for long enough, and logs me on so that I can untag myself.


Now all of this took place over about 15 minutes, so there was the potential that Jen may not have looked at her phone in that time, and as the tag had been removed, she may never have seen the notification. Wouldn't that have been nice.


About a week after, I was back at work when suddenly Harry turns to me and says "Hey OP, I forgot to ask, Jen said that you..." My boyfriend bursts out laughing as I cry, "NO!" and instantly just shrivel at my desk. Harry just walks away trying not to laugh. My boyfriend still brings this up.


TL;DR - Facebook stalked my new friend's girlfriend, accidentally tagged myself in an old picture of them in bed together, and couldn't remove the tag before she saw it.
Names have been changed.

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