How do you feel about being tagged in a comment thread on twitter to have someone say something along the lines of “This person you follow is a problem and I hope you’ll do the right thing,” meaning to unfollow. Is it coercive or helpful?
Frankly, I hate it. I am not following a few thousand of my closest friends. I follow people because they said an interesting thing one time and maybe it’ll happen again, or I liked their profile picture, or I just hit “follow back” because I do that. I mainly follow autistic ppl
But mostly, Twitter puts the same few people in my feed over and over, and it’s not even always people I follow. What’s even the point of followers?
But I really don’t like when a stranger tells me to unfollow someone. There’s a 99.5% chance I won’t even know them. There’s a 100% chance I don’t have time to do a background check. There’s a 0% chance I will enjoy being pressured to comply with a stranger’s demand.
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