Why I Don’t Follow You Anymore
I was catching up on the blogs of Plurk friends whom I’ve not talked to for some time, when I saw (NovelistKat) Veribatim’s blog entry on “Why I don’t follow you anymore“.
She writes about her reasons for not following people on Twitter, citing reasons like their being spammy, sales-oriented, and using Twitter only to broadcast their own blogposts, etc.
Since I don’t use Twitter anymore, I shall write this with Plurk in mind instead.
On Plurk, you can add someone as a friend or a fan. Then, by default, your friend’s Plurks will appear on your timeline. However, you can have the option of whether or not to follow said person’s Plurks. That is, you can be friends with someone, but be sneaky about it, and not follow his/her Plurks, so as not to create enemies (remember, one enemy less is always good), because although his/her Plurks irritate you, frankly, they could still be good friends.
In any case, I now have 149 friends on Plurk, and that is honestly quite a lot of noise, if I were to follow every single person. I estimate that I have (at any one time), unfollowed about 20 Plurkers on my friends’ list, for various reasons. I add some of them back after a while, but some I just cannot be bothered to, for the following reasons:
(1) You are whiny. The number one pet peeve of mine (pertaining to Plurking) is when people only come to Plurk to whine about how horrible their lives are, how depressed they are, etc. At other times, they don’t appear. Or worse, they are constantly there to whine! 28 times a day! Sorry honey, go write it in your personal diary or something. There’s only that many (cozy) 
emoticons that we can give you.
(2) You use Plurk to spam us. Be it your blog posts, your friend’s blog posts, your friend’s blog shops, your grandmother’s blog, your dog’s website, or your goldfish’s pictures, if all you ever post are links and images and Youtube videos, I am taking you off my timeline.
(3) You Plurk 14 Youtube videos. Consecutively. In different threads. I liken such people to those irritating species on the MRT who blast their music from their handphone speakers, thereby forcing everyone to listen to their choice of music.
(4) You are boring. This is probably the same reason why you I don’t talk to you on MSN anymore.
(5) You are stupid. I am all against discrimination, but there are always exceptions to the rule. I discriminate against stupid people, ignorant people, and most of all, people who talk without running their thoughts through their brains to see if it might possibly be interpreted by others as stupid / senseless / discriminatory / wrong. Of course, said people might not know that those thoughts are stupid because they are stupid. So off they go. I might have followed them just because they are my friends, or my friend’s friend. But stupidity really irks me after a while.
(6) You say something just for the sake of saying something. This is probably a common reason why I unfollow most of the 20 or so people I mentioned earlier. If you have nothing to say, it’s okay not to say anything! Please don’t feel accountable for our entertainment, nor that you absolutely have to Plurk 8 times a day to tell us what you are eating for meals and what bus are you riding on.
(7) I don’t like your face / your personality / you. I’ve only done this to one person before, though.
So what makes you unfollow someone with whom you are friends, or someone whose Plurks you have been following?
An afterthought: Have you also ever unfollowed someone, or muted someone’s threads just because they have irritating friends who reply with nothing but emoticons?
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regarding my “afterthought” postscript: i have muted people before because they have irritating friends, and that means i keep getting new responses notifications, all because their friends plurk reponses that only have an emoticon in it or something. frankly, it really does put me off. it’s not you,
it’s me,it’s your friends.There are some pple whom I try to mute their plurks, but strangely it never worked! LOL
@Vic – what? your own? (lol) *cough* we are Plurk addicts! *cough*
Maybe you should selectively choose the friends you want to add?
Darran: I add people based on the following principles:
1. I know you from somewhere else (same community, somehow).
2. You added me because we have been talking on other threads.
3. You added me and I think your Plurks are interesting.
And all the 148 meet at least 2 of the above. Then they start whining / promoting blogs only / posting links all the time / spamming / etc. So I unfollow.
I totally agree with your points, especially the first one
Alamak. I am one of those culprits who only have an emoticon in the response… but hey, it’s an reaction to the plurk mah…
Do you ever have anything nice to say or remotely interesting? Why would you admit to ignoring people you claim as friends? Sounds to me like you add people to look popular without actually caring what these people have to say. if these people are so ‘annoying’ and ‘boring’ then delete them. you seem like the hugest hypocrit. you can’t spend all that time writing whiny and obnoxious blogs and then complain that people are whiny and boring.
Get off the computer every once in a while and see what the real world is like
Rachel,
May I know how you know that Daphne doesn’t know what the real world looks like?
@Rachel
“Why would you admit to ignoring people you claim as friends?”
Pay attention to the context of this post. Understand Plurk before commenting.
“Sounds to me like you add people to look popular without actually caring what these people have to say.”
your ability to interpret fails it seems. in which part of the post does it says it’s a one sided affair and she only adds people?? and again, understand Plurk before commenting.
“if these people are so ‘annoying’ and ‘boring’ then delete them. you seem like the hugest hypocrit”
This sentence along shows that someone obviously doesn’t know what the real world is like.
get.off.your.computer.NAO.
“you can’t spend all that time writing whiny and obnoxious blogs and then complain that people are whiny and boring.”
“Do you ever have anything nice to say or remotely interesting?”
weeeeeee This IS a BLOG, whadda hell were you expecting?!!? If you like reading things choke full of unrealistic romance and bimbotic plots, go bury your face in your stupid Twilight books.
and yeah, in your own words: “Get off the computer once in a while” if you don’t like whatever is posted here.
That would explain alot.
WAH! nice good list.
After awhile, I just mute/stop follow those friends I have on plurk so that I don’t get their “spam”. There’s quite a number I have on my friend list that can practically spam 50 – 60 posts within a short span of time and most of it is just saying, I’m hungry, I’m bored, I’m this, I’m that…. quite irritating after awhile.
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