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Why Unfollowing Is The Recommended Cleanse
Okay, first let’s get this straight: I’m absolutely a nobody in the over-crowded galaxy of A-listers, YouTube stars, influencers, semi-influencers, and the regular users who can’t be easily categorized, despite those blue checks.
Yet, I do have requirements when it comes to the coherency of my timeline, and that wasn’t always the case.
Like most newbies, following and being followed was the unrelenting obsession that took dark turns, when purchasing more bots than humans was considered a harmless activity that would pay off with numerical abundance.
Believe me when I say that turning down those options was the only choice available based on the desire to retain a level of discipline with unpredictable components of a massive playground, that hosts normalized chaos and mayhem at the expense of shedding our humaneness.
It was also my lack of entrepreneurial skills that prevented the visuals of the long-term goals, that worked out incredibly well for those who were built for the immense burden of living #bestlives.
A little over a decade later, there are three things that are undeniably true about my social engagement:
Deleting Facebook was the lifesaving decision, initiated in the nick of time. Twitter and Instagram are the guilty pleasures worth…
