Reminder that following, muting, and blocking mean very different things to different people Some people don’t follow their closest friends. Some block if they simply don’t want to see that type of post Don’t take offense unless you really know how that person uses social media
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There's a fundamental imbalance in how the apps work, where some user A is taught to be very, very emotionally invested in what B does to A on the app, and where B is taught to push buttons affecting A, C, D, E, F as frequently as possible.
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And it's difficult to talk about this or to assist people in self-modifying to avoid harming their interests. "A product is pushing you down a suboptimality gradient to sell more advertising" is hard enough to say, and many will hear "The way you are wired socially is *wrong.*"
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