Whenever he likes a post of yours on Instagram, you are curious about why.
This isn’t a guy who follows you, and yet he keeps liking your Instagram posts.
It has you curious about his motives.
You make it clear in your Instagram profile that you have a boyfriend.
Yet, this guy keeps liking your Instagram posts.
These aren’t the most amazing Instagram posts either, as several of them are fairly run of the mill, and yet, this guy keeps liking them.
A guy who keeps doing this is intent on getting the girl’s attention.
This is especially true when you notice that he regularly likes your posts and there aren’t any long gaps or breaks of several days or weeks before he likes a post.
He is doing this so that he stays on your radar.
By frequently liking your posts, it means that he is choosing to keep coming back to your Instagram account over and over again.
Being a non-follower, it isn’t that easy for him to keep finding your Instagram account.
Unlike a follower, who would have much easier access to your Instagram account through direct feed access, a “following” list, story priority, and push notifications, a non-follower has to make more of an effort to return to your account repeatedly, whether it be through using search, the explore page, etc.
This guy is actually making a conscientious and sustained effort to keep returning to your Instagram account and liking your posts.
Even though you have a boyfriend, he persists in liking your posts.
For some guys, a girl with a boyfriend isn’t a reason to avoid her Instagram account completely.
As long as the girl is physically attractive, he is curious about her.
In frequently liking your posts, he wants to see whether you notice what he is doing and acknowledge him in some way.
He is banking on the consistent likes getting your attention.
At which point, you click on his profile to look into who he is.
Even if you don’t give him a like, as long as you view his stories, posts, or highlights, he will know that you visited his Instagram account.
This lets him know that he finally got your attention to such an extent you clicked into his profile.
Once he knows you have done this, he knows that you are intrigued by him.
At which point, he increases the number of posts he makes that would resonate with you, using related themes, so as to impress you.
This is the final confirmation that all of the likes he had been making on your Instagram posts have meant something all along.
He uses whatever he has seen on your Instagram posts to help him post related or similar content on his own Instagram.
For example, if he has been liking a number of your posts about hiking, you will see him posting a whole bunch of photos of himself hiking on his Instagram.
He does this to connect with you emotionally through using something he knows you are passionate about.
Since you don’t follow each other and have never spoken to each other before, he has to be more creative in how he goes about creating an emotional connection with you.
Posting photos on his Instagram of him participating in activities he is aware you are passionate about is how he gets to do this.
Despite you having a boyfriend, he sees you as a challenge.
And given that he finds you physically attractive, he sees you as worth the effort.
Social media provides him the kind of access to you that he wouldn’t have if you were a stranger he met in real life.
His hope is that at some point you are comfortable enough to like one of his posts, follow his account, or send him a direct message (DM).
Should this happen, he knows that it may only be a matter of time before the two of you connect romantically, despite the fact that you currently have a boyfriend.