I Told My Mom I Don't Like Social Media and Instead She Blocked My Girlfriend. We are no longer speaking.

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An hour ago I was scrolling through Facebook when I saw my mother post a photo of me eating lunch together with her.

For context, I’ve told my mom I’m not exactly comfortable with being posted online as I don’t like my face being seen. I want to keep myself private. A week earlier, she took pictures of me and I told her not to post it only for it to pop on my feed two days after. (I let it slide)

So, today, I showed my mother the photo that she posted and I asked her to private it cause I’m not comfortable seeing my face online, she then told me “so what?, so what?”, I didn’t try to escalate the situation but I asked for her to private the post, even just to for it be seen only by friends, but my mom then said “It’s because of your girlfriend isn’t it?”

I was confused and said, “No, why would it be about her?” I have a feeling my mom concluded that it was my girlfriend nudging me to take the post down, my mom assumes stuff relatively quickly so it was the first thing on my mind as to why she responded that way.

My mother then told me she would block my girlfriend on Facebook immediately and I didn’t contest, I simply left the room and she said “That girlfriend of yours, I’ve never liked her, I’m blocking her right now.”

I’m still dumbfounded about this situation, it escalated so quickly in a minute, and I find out that my mom doesn’t approve of my girlfriend, my girlfriend hasn’t done anything wrong nor has done anything that goes against my mother’s values. My girlfriend was happy when I told her that my mom liked her, and I don’t want to break the news that my mom has disliked her all this time and blocked her on Facebook.

I’m confused why my mother jumped to conclusions as to why I wanted the photo private, and I don’t want to turn it into a fight, I’m disappointed and I'm not speaking to her right now.