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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Olivia Petter

How unfollowing someone on social media became the ultimate hostile act

Brooklyn Beckham famously doesn’t follow many of his family members after the spectacular falling out earlier this year - (Getty)

In the modern world, there’s one surefire way to tell someone they’ve hurt you. It’s not to throw a drink in their face, or stomp your feet and call them nasty names. Such brazen child's play is seldom tolerated, no matter how justifiable; instead, you have to cloak your juvenile pettiness within the safe confines of the digital sphere, which means one thing and one thing only: you must unfollow them on social media.

We see it play out in the celebrity world all the time. Just this week, reports circulated that Nicole Kidman’s 17-year-old daughter, Sunday Rose, unfollowed her father, Keith Urban, on Instagram. The move came after allegations swirled that relationships between the musician and his two children – he also shares a 15-year-old daughter, Faith, with Kidman – had become strained since the couple announced their split last year.

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