What makes you unfollow?

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Going through a bit of a rough patch with my mental health at the moment which I think is why I'm caring so much about this. A lot of people seem to be unfollowing me on social media. For context, I mainly just post photos of what my family is up to and food! I probably post a story once every 2 weeks and a post every 2 months. I won't change anything but I guess I keep wondering what I've done to be unfollowed.

What makes you unfollow someone?

Politics
Ideologies
Virtue signalling
Attention seeking

I don't do the 'following' stuff in general, but nothing you've said there would make me unfollow you at all (in fact, i'd be interested!). As for other stuff, i see a few pages where there are some wrong ideas. I watch them bc know your enemies.

As pp said, I wouldn’t follow you with your content. To unfollow I’d have to find it repetitive, or maybe politics and religion seeping in. Exploitation of other people.

Lots of family posts from people I'm not close to.
Barrages of selfies.

Food posts that are less than inspiring.
Daily dog photos.
Gym photos.
Etc
Etc

Anything that doesn't inspire me or bring me joy really. I mainly follow art and music pages.

How do you know you’re being unfollowed? I will unfollow attention seeking and anything political, anything racist gets an instant removal.

As above - Politics, ideologies, virtue signalling, attention seeking. Shallow rants about shallow crap. Whining. Rants about how women just need to let men in their spaces/sports etc.

Usually mundane stuff. Realising that actually we don't interact in real life and would possibly barely even say hello.

A mass unfollowing of people because I want to make my social media more private/only actual close friends and family.

And yes I have unfollowed for people posting offensive/stupid stuff but that's rare due to me already unfollowing because of the first 2 points!

Might it be worth you locking your social media down to just people who are.close to you? Watching the number of followers doesn't sound good for your mental health. I genuinely don't know how.many people follow me so wouldn't notice an unfollow.

I haven't been on social media for years but when I was my number one repellent was constant pics and updates of children. There's nothing more boring than other people's kids.

I really hate people that only post all the good things that happen to them, and boast about loads of things.

Also, there's another mum I used to follow who heavily filtered all her photos, to the point that none of her pictures looked like her. I ended up unfollowing her.

I don't tend to post on Facebook anymore, I may share the occasional memory, but that's it.

Anyone who starts running & is evangelical about it.
Over advertising or pretending to care about me while trying to sell stuff.

I've been called ridiculous for this but I don't think we should be posting photos of our kids on social media full stop.

I unfollow anyone who posts pictures of their food. I don't want to see what people are eating.

I don't unfollow people I know on my personal accounts but I have a home reno instagram account and follow others doing the same on there. I unfollow when there are too many: inspirational quotes/ baby pictures/ glamorous holiday snaps etc. It's not something I'm interested in, I use that instagram account like a home decor magazine so like my feed to show that.

Correct

GoFundMe’s
Politics
Virtue-Signalling
Awareness Campaigns
Mummy/Goddess/Fitspo bullshit
”Hilarious” Memes/Inspirational Quotes

My own MH also affects what and who I follow as well. I protect myself by avoiding Pinterest-worthy lifestyles, vloggers, etc. Anything that could possibly cause negative comparisons.

Pouty selfies at the same angle each time.
Boasts about expensive things the person has bought.
Checking in at the hospital or a coffee shop.
Vaguebooking.

Do you know these people that well, for you to be getting a lot of people unfollowing you.
id unfollow, or mute someone that posted lots of political stuff and memes.
I’d also feel a bit voyeuristic looking at lots of photos of someone’s family, if I didn’t know them too well, so would probably mute or unfollow them.

You might find it would help to come off social media and connect more with people in person. I mean that in the kindest way possible, you shouldn't be hung up on your followers or what people think about what you post.

Are the people who unfollow your friends and family or random people that you have amassed as a following?

People who post endless selfies is the biggy for me. Also people who post pictures of shit food. Nice looking food is ok, but some people really can not cook.

Generally I like seeing what people are getting up to.

Poor me posts.

Bitchy Posts.

political posters who don’t see other peoples sides of an argument.

smug twat posts.

I only have Facebook and it’s mainly family and yes I unfollow family !

Most definitely. I have some friends and family members, who constantly post pictures of their children- from the very first scan, throughout the childhood, into adulthood, documenting their entire lives, on social media, for many to see. I think that’s wrong as the child cannot consent to this. I would be mortified and resentful if my parents ever did this to me.

Hmm just when I feel bombarded by stuff I didn't need to know about someone's life and kids. I'm not that interested to begin with and the posts cease to become interesting and meaningful when you post all the time. I love it when I see something from someone I haven't heard from in a while, I am then genuinely interested and happy for them. But the posts where it's like ' look what we did today"/"having so much fun' every week/every other day, just feels a bit too much/forced. Not sure if that makes sense!!

Pregnancy announcements
smug parent pictures
ranting/conspiracy theories

I think people are just getting fed up/bored of social media now