What's the deal with announcing to people that you are unfollowing them? A sort of parting shot? You need them to know why? 🤔
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some people worry about being called sneaky. anti-sneak defense
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oh you mean like "hey vgr i'm going to unfollow you now"??? damn, wild. i thought you were talk about tweets, "hey everyone, i'm going to be trimming my following list! nothing personal!"
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Usually just a word, “unfollowed” in response to a specific tweet. Sometimes with a short, entirely unhelpful “cause”. Scare quotes since the stated cause is never the one I infer.
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I think twitter dissolves social distance in a way that makes unidirectional channels feel like personal relationships. When a tweet is perceived as 'bad', it feels like a social violation and people need to forge agency to alleviate the dissonance.
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The Medium Is The Message
Marshall McLuhan / Quentin Fiore
(1967, p. 63)
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