Re:Three and a half degrees of separation
by morgante on Thursday February 04, 2016 @03:53PM
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Isn't that almost the opposite of Twitter though?
They're people who you want to be connected to for some reason (often a real-life connection) but you don't particularly enjoy their content. As opposed to Twitter, where you will follow people you don't know because they share content you enjoy.
Re:Three and a half degrees of separation
by Jtsummers on Thursday February 04, 2016 @03:58PM
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Those people are still (almost certainly) following me, but I'm not following them (evidenced by their comments to my infrequent postings). But unlike Twitter, that's not the default. Twitter: default one-way, two-way requires effort. Facebook: default two-way, one-way requires effort. You wrote that there are no one-way followers. I was simply trying to point out that it was possible to end up in that situation.
The connection is often more formality than anything else (we game together, play soccer together, blood-relations, etc.). And they seem to like my posts, so they're following me, but I don't care for theirs and unfollow them.
I don't disagree with you, but to the parenthetical: I've unfollowed plenty of people. They're still in my friend list, but I never see their posts because they were too annoying. It's not strictly one-way like with Twitter, but it's close.