What makes you unfollow?

[Caffeinate]

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?

Posting the same thing over and over again

God you lot 😂 what a bunch of utter miseries you must be in RL! It’s a sad state of affairs when photos of your friends and family’s babies and children offend you so much that you unfollow them.

DH has a FB friend who posts endless photos of her tacky designer clobber and awful white Range Rover. I get that some might unfollow her just for being gauche but we find her posts quite amusing. I mean, what is her thought process, ‘Another expensive handbag, I simply must put a photo on Facebook and let all my friends know I’m still rich’ 😆

There are a few...
Checking in at hospitals, photos of babies and calling them bubs etc, loads of cat/dog pictures where they're literally just laying down not doing anything special, doing the #makingmemories thing, being in a new relationship with different people every week. I could go on.

People who call me hun when they would not do so face to face, I cannot describe why it messes with my head so much but its almost like I don't recognise the person anymore. Or babe. I'm not being snotty as neither of those terms offend me but they're only ever used towards/at me on social media!

If we don't interact. Someone messaged me demanding to know why I unfriended him. We had one conversation (where he couldn't grasp why I couldn't get somewhere and kept pestering me about it) in the 6 months we were friends.

Oooh, I forgot gender reveals and mlm requests too.

Why are you posting your food?
Why cares what you eat except you?

Anyone who joins an MLM.

I unfollow (or unfriend) people that think it's all about them and complain about not enough people liking their content when they don't actually interact with others.

Minute by minute updates of babies or football

People who post 'unfriend me if you have opinion x' - even if I don't have opinion x.
Wishing violence on anyone, including unpleasant politicians
Vague complaints designed to make the reader feel guilty and wonder if the post is about them
Daily posts about all the minor irritating things that happened at work and how much you hate your job. Everyone needs to vent sometimes but if you're doing it every day, I have nothing to comment except 'you should look for a new job'. I can't do the 'aw, poor you' thing every time

I dont really unfollow.

But I hide people if I don't want to see there content at a particular time (for example I'm saving while theyre on holiday or buying expensive things).

If you are talking about instagram the algorithm has recently started showing people I followed a long time ago and now not interested in so I have been unfollowing and also being unfollowed! Just the way it is...

Boring holiday photos especially just scenic, people trying to flog me stuff, really long posts on instagram.

Sometimes I just unfollow because I can’t remember why I followed in the first place, and because I prefer not to follow too many people.

So it might be that I randomly decide there’s just no clear, obvious reason to still be following someone, even though their posts are perfectly okay.

Occasionally you see someone post along the lines of ‘I posted about [whatever] and two people unfollowed, I guess they must not like [whatever]’ — which I always think is a bit clueless and presumptuous. A lot of the time, unfollowing is nothing whatsoever to do with a specific active dislike of someone’s most recent post.

You shouldn't track who friends or unfriends you OP. People have their own reasons, nothing to do with you.

On Facebook, you can unfollow without unfolloweed person knowing, or snooze their posts for 30 days. Which SM is this you mean, OP, or if it's Facebook (it's always facebook) do you mean they unfriended you?

I would snooze/unfollow because of ugly opinions or Intolerance of things I feel they should be tolerant about. Dogmatic views. Posting too often (I guess that means routinely > once a day, just because I don't want them to dominate my feed).

I really only unfriend if a) they become a work colleague, my Facebook is non-work people only, or b) I don't know them but they wanted to friend me so I could talk to them about collecting their spare apples or something like that, so I initially friend'ed back but only temporarily.

xH stays 'Friends' but unfollows everyone that isn't close family.