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instabait
Uploading Instagram stories to prod a FOMO-prone crush to get in touch. It may work in the short-term, but effects are likely to disappear quickly. For example, "I hadn’t heard from Anna in days! So I instabaited her with pics from that hot new bar we’d talked about checking out, she DM'd me, 'We should totally go.' We never went."
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