(CNN) Abby Mahler ended a childhood friendship in the comments of one of her Instagram posts.
“You do not get to like this post with (the) amount of restaurants you eat at. [expletive] I mean it,” she wrote.
Mahler, 27, has lupus and is immunocompromised. She has spent the past nine months using her social media account to help inform others about the importance of mask-wearing.
But Instagram has also been a window into the day-to-day activities of people who have gone about their lives as if there were no pandemic: eating at restaurants mask-free; going on lavish vacations; hanging out at bars.
So when one of those friends hit “like” on one of her posts, she didn’t hold back.