Unfollow...
Out of curiosity, how often do you, as users of social media, re-assess your friends lists?
And, if you do it, what are the criteria that must be met for you to either unfollow or continue following someone? Are there accounts, be they of real people or groups, that you could never see yourself unfollowing? Why?
I re-assess quite regularly. Sometimes I find that an account I follow has failed to provide me with worthwhile content.
Other times it's that I haven't interacted with them at all since the time I either last re-assessed or we started following each other.
Then, of course, there are the people that stopped using an account entirely. Those I usually ice about a half to full year's leeway to seeming they come back.
Sometimes it just feels nice to do a spring cleaning. Social media friends can be worse than hoarding.
I do this from time to time but nothing consistent. Basically if I'm bored sometimes I'll go through the list and unfollow some accounts on both Twitter and Instagram.
Posted by: Marie | Tuesday, 19 April 2016 at 08:06 AM
I do this about once a month, checking for accounts that don't follow me that once did, but no longer tweet anything I'm interested in. For friends, I rarely unfollow. They pretty much have to just post a bunch of hate-laced messages a lot before I unfollow them. For Twitter, I normally mute someone that I'm not interested in seeing their tweets, but still want to follow and check their feed every month or so to see if it was a temp insanity or perm insanity.
Facebook is am entirely different animal altogether, but using some of the same above criteria I use with Twitter. I unfollow (stop their posts from appearing on my FB feed) a lot, mostly due to who they are (someone I grew up with and have nothing in common except I know them in person) and what they post (mostly religious or political propaganda)
Posted by: Marty Mankins | Tuesday, 19 April 2016 at 07:02 PM
Good policies, indeed. Thanks.
Posted by: kapgar | Tuesday, 19 April 2016 at 08:02 PM
Sounds like me.
Posted by: kapgar | Wednesday, 20 April 2016 at 05:51 PM