I remember some years of high school as being better than others. A lot of it had to do with the people I was hanging out with. I always judged people by the way they treated me and other people. Not by how much money or power they had, or by how many friends they had. Sometimes I hung out with the most popular kids in high school and sometimes I didn’t. I’m still like that today.
Why I will or won’t follow on social media
Social media reminds me a lot of high school, with the “likes” of Facebook, and terms like “followers” on social media. Like in high school, people are judged by how popular they are and how many “friends” they have. But as someone who has spent most of my life in the entertainment industry, the word “friend” is bantered about loosely. Your real friends can be counted on one hand. Your real friends are the ones who are still there when the chips are down and you’re at your lowest point.
Social media reminds me of the same cliquish hierarchy as high school. And why I would hang out with certain people and not others.
Here are some of the reasons I will or won’t follow someone on social media:
Information isn’t useful to me or my own followers –
The first thing I do is look through someone’s thread to see what kind of things they post to determine if I want to follow them on social media. If there are endless posts about what someone had for lunch or things that wouldn’t be of interest to the other people on my list, I don’t follow them. Nothing personal, it’s just not my cup of tea. [Read more…] about Why I Will Or Won’t Follow Someone on Social Media