RE: "Dear Dawne" Live Today! - Who Are You Following? And Why?
I tend to follow people of whom I read an interesting article. The mistake I make is that I don’t check out the rest of their articles before I follow them.
I now have like 300+ people on my following list, which is way too many.I can’y use my feed, because it is full of articles I have absolutely no interest about.
I tried unfollowing based on onteraction once - there is no need to follow someone with whom there is no interaction at all - but that was an awefully time-consuming task.
Still, I don’t want to unfollow people that interact on my posts regularly.
I really need to clean up the list - urgently - but I have no idea where to get started.
Somebody once told me I should only keep the ones I recognize the name of, but since I have an awful memory - especially when it comes to names - I don’t think that is a good idea.
Any tips on this topic are definitely welcome...
Starting can be overwhelming. What I do is take a few days a week.. maybe 30 minutes at a time and just go through all my following. If it's a name I don't recognize, I'll go to his or he page and see what they are posting or if they have been posting, commenting recently.
Time consuming.. yes.
Worthwhile... yes.
Just last week I had to sit at a car dealership while my husband's new truck got running boards installed. I had two hours to sit there.. so I took my laptop and that was one day I went through my list. So instead of being bored, I at least accomplished this favorite task. <--- yeah.. sarcasm (ha-ha)
@beeyou had told me about this tool where you can see how often you engaged with someone - I forgot which it was - I used that to compare my followers list with the engagement between myself and a certain follower.
I guess I just have to accept that there is no ‘quick fix’ and that I will have to schedule some time to do it. Better now than when I’m following 3000 people instead of 300, I guess... :0)