May be blocking yet another older male on Instagram. He messaged me multiple times in a row asking how my day was and referred to me as "dear."

I sent back the message, "Not trying to be rude, but I don’t recognize your name as someone I know. I use Instagram primarily for business purposes. I am an author and publisher. I am also happily married and would like to stay that way."

oops, left out the bit about my social accounts being on other platforms without naming them.

There are a lot of those in IG. I just block them.