I (f23) have a friend (f23) who has a little social media addiction. Most of the content of our messages revolve around social media posts that I often am not interested in or don’t find funny. She frequently sends me posts whenever she’s bored and it has started to bother me because she avoids regular conversation and normally doesn’t respond to my messages unless it’s a social media post.

I have talked to her numerous times about reducing the amount of social media posts that she sends me but she always gets defensive and blames her actions on the fact that she doesn’t have the mental capacity to have a real conversation, she’s going through a lot so that’s why she sends so many posts, her mental health is shot and that sending me things is the only thing that keeps her sane, or that the posts remind her of me (even though I myself can’t figure out how) etc. I have explained to her that it’s watering down our friendship, and that I don’t have the same interests and choose to spend my time making meaningful connections instead but she still continues. She sends so many things that I have her silenced on all social media platforms because she often sends them at inappropriate hours and the notifications have woken me up out of my sleep in the past.

I’m not sure how to get my point across and I’m very close to blocking her all together when it comes to social media. I don’t want to hurt her but her consistent spamming (going on for 3 years now) is starting to slowly make me resent her and now I don’t want to receive a notification from her at all. AITA? How would you handle this?