Facebook was more peaceful in its infancy.
But times change, and so has Facebook.
Grandma and Uncle Bob are on Facebook now, and they expect to be your friend.
With greater numbers of people comes greater amounts of frustration.
But you might’t unfriend Grandma and Uncle Bob.
And you’re able to’t unfriend your co-worker John.
You have to face them occasionally in real life.
Messenger, group communication, and event planning are more and more often done on Facebook.
But it’s ok. You don’t have to unfriend your frustrating and annoying Facebook friends.
you might unfollow them.
So what do you do the rest of the year?
You don’t call them on the phone.
You don’t go over their house.
And you don’t invite them over to yours any more than you have to.
Handled gracefully, they might never even notice.
Unfollowing a person on Facebook is essentially the same thing.
When you unfollow a person, you won’t see their posts anymore.
And they aren’t notified that you unfollowed them.
Unfollowing is a quick and easy process to curate your feed only to see things you want to see.
Because social networks should leave you feeling better, not feeling worse.
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Unfollowing a person is easy.
Maybe political season is in full swing and they can’t stop posting about it.
Or maybe you just need a break.
Snoozing works just like unfollowing a person, except that you’ll automatically follow them again in 30 days.
We can’t choose our family.
We can’t really choose our co-workers.
And it’s getting harder and harder to choose and curate our Facebook friends.
You hurt no one when you unfollow them.
