On 22 Jun 2021 at 05:38a, Adept pondered and said...

Maybe you can try unfollowing people?

[snip]

But at some point I started either snoozing or unfollowing people, whenever I thought they were frequently posting political things, or
just things that were a negative for me to see, on balance.

I've been (at times) unfollowing people on social also. It's really
interesting the psychology around all of this. FB etc. I think bank on the prospect that people will have that fear of missing out and in doing so avoid removing themselves from online social scenes they had earlier opted into. To opt out takes quite a bit of conscious effort. I think folks forget it's not
a forever option either... and that one can always rejoin/check out the scene again if they wanted to.

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On 22 Jun 2021 at 05:27p, apam pondered and said...

Or defriend them.

I culled a lot of people from my facebook, still some people post some annoying shit, but I just ignore it, because if they're still on my
friend list they are important to me regardless.

Yep same here...

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opted into. To opt out takes quite a bit of conscious effort. I think folks forget it's not a forever option either... and that one can always rejoin/check out the scene again if they wanted to.

I think this is a large part of what I like about unfollowing. I can still check in on a person if/when I want to see what they've been up to on
Facebook -- I'm just choosing not to have their content in my feed.

Kind of like the difference between getting a phone notification and going to 68k.news.

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On 22 Jun 2021 at 05:38a, Adept pondered and said...

Maybe you can try unfollowing people?

[snip]

But at some point I started either snoozing or unfollowing people, whenever I thought they were frequently posting political things, or
just things that were a negative for me to see, on balance.

I've been (at times) unfollowing people on social also. It's really
interesting the psychology around all of this. FB etc. I think bank on the prospect that people will have that fear of missing out and in doing so avoid removing themselves from online social scenes they had earlier opted into. To opt out takes quite a bit of conscious effort. I think folks forget it's not
a forever option either... and that one can always rejoin/check out the scene again if they wanted to.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

On 22 Jun 2021 at 05:27p, apam pondered and said...

Or defriend them.

I culled a lot of people from my facebook, still some people post some annoying shit, but I just ignore it, because if they're still on my
friend list they are important to me regardless.

Yep same here...

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

opted into. To opt out takes quite a bit of conscious effort. I think folks forget it's not a forever option either... and that one can always rejoin/check out the scene again if they wanted to.

I think this is a large part of what I like about unfollowing. I can still check in on a person if/when I want to see what they've been up to on
Facebook -- I'm just choosing not to have their content in my feed.

Kind of like the difference between getting a phone notification and going to 68k.news.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Storm BBS (21:2/108)

Avon et al;

Avon wrote to Adept <=-

I've been (at times) unfollowing people on social also. It's really interesting the psychology around all of this. FB etc. I think bank on
the prospect that people will have that fear of missing out and in
doing so avoid removing themselves from online social scenes they had earlier opted into. To opt out takes quite a bit of conscious effort. I think folks forget it's not a forever option either... and that one can always rejoin/check out the scene again if they wanted to.

My rule for myself seems to work just fine and acts as a great drama filter! That is: leave the haters on UNsocial media such as deFacingBook, InstaGrudge Twitz'r('us), etc and keep the positivity on the FTN nets! Seems to also help boost traffic in here :)

... So here we are, victims of mathematics.. - Londo Mollari
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