A couple weeks ago, I unfollowed someone I said I wouldn't unfollow. I enjoy Twitter because of the possibility of open discourse. The ability to disagree without the consequence of losing a friend or offending a church member. Because of this freedom and openness, I always said that disagreeing with someone isn't reason enough to unfollow him/her. I had been following someone with whom I usually disagree and it got to be too much and I realized that the disagreement wasn't the reason he had to get off my timeline. Of course, everything here doesn't apply to him, and some of these points apply to people I need to stop following. Either way, here are some resons I have to unfollow...
I don't like negativity, so I don't follow people who are always starting internet feuds. Worse than that is one who uses his/her "celebrity" to incite drama or negativity. A while ago, there was a discussion about not liking India Arie. When one person disagreed, the "celebrity" told all of her followers to go confront the dissenter. You can't claim to uplift on one hand and then direct people to tear someone else apart on the other.
I can't deal with someone whose timeline is all retweets. If you're always retweeting someone else's stuff, why don't I just go follow them and cut out the middle man? Further, I realize that daily affirmations from The Single Woman help a lot of people, but I can't deal with a timeline full of them. If all your tweets are retweets of relationship advice and self-help junk, I have to let you go.
If all of your tweets are about sex or religion, I can't follow you. Moreover if all of your Monday-Saturday tweets are about sex and then on Sunday it's all about religion, I can't follow you. I'm not modest about sexuality or spirituality, but I get bored if you're too absorbed with either one. And... I don't like fake people. There's something that doesn't ring true about you and I don't want to read it all the time.
There are some people whose tweets elicit an automatic eyeroll. For my sanity and the sake of my poor eyes, I have to unfollow you. It could be that you fall into one of these other categories and, for whatever reason, I feel like I can't unfollow you. But just know... You're on thin ice.
I hate to waste my time, so if you tweet me a question and I bother to respond, I expect you to follow up, either with the reason you asked the quesion/made the statement, or some other indicator that the conversation is over. I haaate when people don't respond. Eventually, I'll get really annoyed and have to unfollow you.
Now... I'm not so self-absorbed as to think that you care if I don't follow you on Twitter. This post originally started because someone sent me a text message asking why I unfollowed him. Then I realized that I follow someone I shouldn't be following. Then I unfollowed a person I said I wouldn't unfollow. So... I've been trying to get this out of my system for a minute. Since the air is clear I feel refreshed and free to go axe some people. =]
I don't like negativity, so I don't follow people who are always starting internet feuds. Worse than that is one who uses his/her "celebrity" to incite drama or negativity. A while ago, there was a discussion about not liking India Arie. When one person disagreed, the "celebrity" told all of her followers to go confront the dissenter. You can't claim to uplift on one hand and then direct people to tear someone else apart on the other.
I can't deal with someone whose timeline is all retweets. If you're always retweeting someone else's stuff, why don't I just go follow them and cut out the middle man? Further, I realize that daily affirmations from The Single Woman help a lot of people, but I can't deal with a timeline full of them. If all your tweets are retweets of relationship advice and self-help junk, I have to let you go.
If all of your tweets are about sex or religion, I can't follow you. Moreover if all of your Monday-Saturday tweets are about sex and then on Sunday it's all about religion, I can't follow you. I'm not modest about sexuality or spirituality, but I get bored if you're too absorbed with either one. And... I don't like fake people. There's something that doesn't ring true about you and I don't want to read it all the time.
There are some people whose tweets elicit an automatic eyeroll. For my sanity and the sake of my poor eyes, I have to unfollow you. It could be that you fall into one of these other categories and, for whatever reason, I feel like I can't unfollow you. But just know... You're on thin ice.
I hate to waste my time, so if you tweet me a question and I bother to respond, I expect you to follow up, either with the reason you asked the quesion/made the statement, or some other indicator that the conversation is over. I haaate when people don't respond. Eventually, I'll get really annoyed and have to unfollow you.
Now... I'm not so self-absorbed as to think that you care if I don't follow you on Twitter. This post originally started because someone sent me a text message asking why I unfollowed him. Then I realized that I follow someone I shouldn't be following. Then I unfollowed a person I said I wouldn't unfollow. So... I've been trying to get this out of my system for a minute. Since the air is clear I feel refreshed and free to go axe some people. =]
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