*gasp The dreaded UNfollow
Posted by shegeek at August 20th, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Do you view following as a commitment and unfollowing like a broken promise — or worse — a divorce? Do you watch your follower count and immediately unfollow anyone who has unfollowed you as if to say, “AHA! You don’t deserve to have me as a follower when you don’t follow me!”
What does following mean to you?
Most of us have had it happen. Someone you converse with on a regular or fairly regular basis – you might even consider this person a friend – stops following you. Maybe you tried to send a DM and couldn’t. Or maybe you’re obsessive-compulsive frantic and oh-so-devastated over the loss of even one spam or pr0n bot follower and endlessly review your follower count, your follow-to-followed ratio and your follower growth metrics.
One…One Thousand…One Meellyun? Meh.
I don’t fret over my follower count. I routinely clear out spammers and other questionable accounts as well as unfollow random tweeps whose conversations I really don’t want associated with me. I’m sure that’s snobbish to some. I’m not a Twitter Saint by any means. But if you’re tweeting about how much pipe you laid last weekend while you were drinking like an Amish junior college freshman, straight off the farm and very curious about life in the big city, pretty much, there’s not a commonality there that I want to explore. (more…)
Categories: Social Networking
Tags: Networking, OMG, Social Networking, social skills, Twitter, WTF
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