Follow me - follow you is one of the worst things ever! Back when I started blogging, talking early 2000s and the time I sold my fine art photography I did participate in this shit - and regretted it all.the.time. At the time it was the way to get popular and sell stuff but I am so over it - never again!
In the Hive beginning, I was a bit generous in following a lot of people on here, one good post, paintings, or a nice comment, these days I am slower to follow peeps. I will usually scroll through their feed of posts, to see what and how often they post. Based on that I'll drop a follow or I don't.
I honestly haven't used the 'Favourites' button yet ever. I'll have to give that a try. Currently, I work with lists on Peakd but, of course, for that to work, you'll need to 'follow' first. This is how I try to filter my most important content creators from the 'maybe I'll comment' ones and also categorize the content a bit.
Unfortunately, this is not foolproof as I still keep missing posts from certain people whose less frequent posts get lost in daily posts e.g. I keep missing snook's posts and hate it! But it's my bad and I think I'll go and make a Snook list now!
Unfollows happen once in a blue moon. When I feel a little organization is needed I'll weed through my follow list and see who dropped out/left Hive etc. Or maybe my interests changed e.g. I am way less interested in SPL than I have been yet I'm still following SPL content creators - that might change in the near future.
I will also unfollow if I notice that there is no interaction e.g. I comment on someone's post and they don't bother to reply. That can happen once, maybe twice but that's it.
LOL - I notice these on your posts quite a bit - irritating!!
good post boss, and, keep going sir, or wow
The follow-for-follow thing is the worst way to do it for anyone taking this seriously and who are here for relationships and enjoyment. It's the ethos these days though, brought on my social media assfuckery.
Try out the favourites thing. It works like any other and becomes a whole separate post feed which you can control without the commitment of a follow. It'll work well for you and you can add or subtract without the other user knowing. Don't be afraid of unfollowing though, it's your experience here, you might as well own it right?
Those who do the, good post boss, and, keep going sir, wow, comments are nutbags thinking that is going to get them a vote. I might start downvoting them and see what happens. When they ask why I'll say, "wow."
You might think I'm joking here...I'm not.
Also, the fucken word wow. I'm not a huge fan of it. I can tolerate it if used along with other words, barely. But hung out there by itself? Wow that shit is annoying. Lol. I especially hate it when people write, wow wow wow. That makes me want to slap some mofos!
Exactly. I did unfollow someone yesterday because his content didn't interest me (anymore) plus he never commented or voted on my stuff. Next thing I saw is he unfollowed me. Guess me unfollowing him was the right thing to do, no regrets.
WOW! It's really THAT annoying?! LOL - couldn't resist - hahahaha - need to check out a few more of your posts and comments to see your replies and get a good laugh out of it.
And there you go, human nature strikes again. It's best you unfollowed that person, they weren't worthy of your time it seems and you're best without them.
I'm certain that both of us are better off.