A self-audit or reality check to determine whether someone is orbiting you — passively watching your social media without making real contact — or whether you're doing the orbiting.
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A subtle, low-intensity form of orbiting where the surveillance is present but careful — viewing stories occasionally rather than instantly, liking posts sporadically rather than compulsively, maintaining just enough digital presence to stay on someone's radar without triggering obvious recognition. Low key orbiting is the version with plausible deniability intact: you can always claim you just happened to see their post rather than admitting you've had their profile on rotation. It's orbiting with a discipline that makes it more sustainable and, arguably, more insidious.
Staying in someone's social media sphere — viewing their stories, liking old posts — after breaking up or ghosting, without actually talking to them.
Orbiting behavior that neither party ever explicitly acknowledges — a mutual awareness that someone is watching, staying present, and not letting go, but that exists entirely in the unverified space of digital behavior and plausible deniability. Unspoken orbiting is the most common kind: both the orbiter and the person being orbited know what's happening, but naming it would force a reckoning neither is ready for. It functions as a kind of digital holding pattern, where someone remains technically visible in your life without ever declaring themselves.
A self-audit or reality check to determine whether someone is orbiting you — passively watching your social media without making real contact — or whether you're doing the orbiting. An orbiting check involves scrolling through your story views, noting who always watches but never texts, and reckoning with what that means. It can also be a group activity: a friend asking another 'orbiting check — is he still watching your stories?' in a distinctly investigative, slightly obsessive way. The check frames digital surveillance as a formal diagnostic procedure.
Orbiting check — he viewed your stories three times this week and still hasn't texted back.
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