Obviously today's challenge has to do with social media. Many of us end up with people on our friends/following lists that we aren't really friends with, we don't really have lots in common, we've never actually met- nor will ever meet, or they've just collected as we were in a particular season of our life.
This challenge will be extremely personal for each of you. Everyone has their own reasons to follow/unfollow people. I chose to start with Twitter & Instagram. I got rid of people/pages/fan pages/advertising corporate pages (that you sometimes have to like or follow for a discount or coupon code). This was easy. I only need to keep about half what I have, so with a little time and some clicks, my newsfeed will be only what's most important to me, saving lots of time.
Facebook is a bit trickier. There's no real set categories of people I kept as friends but unfollowed. I kept my family and most of Tim's. I unfollow those who I have no contact with anyway, we never like each other's stuff, nor do they post on any kind of a regular basis that I've seen.
Next I went through my real friends I see face to face. I kept almost all of those. The only ones I didn't were ones that even face to face we've never said more than hello, or talked about the weather, but they sent me a request and I accepted in case we needed to communicate or message at some point.
I then went through people I only know on facebook. I unfollowed but kept only those who interact with me on a fairly regular basis. For example, there's one "friend" on FB that never comments or likes on my stuff, never posts on their own, yet once every two or three years they'll comment on something I posted to be argumentative and very negative. Why would I need them in my daily feed? I often post to add value, or thinking questions, or encouragement to others, so I didn't unfriend them - I just unfollowed them.
I also unsubscribed to many businesses and pages I only liked when someone asked me to (but it's of no interest to me) or because I wanted their coupon/discount offer.
I have one last category that I unfollowed: the political argumentative people who do nothing but rant. Nothing of value, nothing encouraging, nothing personal, nothing worth sharing - just political stuff 24/7. The world is negative enough. I don't need it in my feed every day...so they're unfollowed.
What value do you get from and give back to your friends & follows?
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