Having lost and lots of friends is a nice thing to have. The thing is you don't have lots and lots of friends. In fact, I can argue that true friends are really rare, you could count them with only one hand. How may true friends do you have? 4-5?
My experience with social media taught me that having too many online friends didn't make my visit on the platform better, in fact, it made it worse. I have 1500+ so called friends on Facebook and my feed is cluttered with so much junk. This is one of the main reasons I don't use it that much anymore. Fortunately, you can hide some of the things they post.
This applies to all social media, the difference with Steemit is that the content here is king. Only the good posts are supposed to make it and only the best authors should succeed. It's a real competition of content quality! In that sense, Steemit is full of interesting people and it takes an enormous amount of time to read and interact with all of them. I have a hard time following 200 people, not to mention if I had a thousand.
There are steemians who follow too many people, it's their choice. I choose to follow a small heard of people I like and really engage with. Steemit is not about building up big numbers on your profile, it's about sharing good information, ideas, and interact. So every now and then I clean my feed by unfollowing people who resteem too much or are not active at all.
Check out http://steemit.deadfollowers.info to see who are your inactive followers.
An actual graph of my social activity.
My Issue With Resteems
Resteems are great but when only 1 or 2 posts out of 10 are original and everything else is just resteems my feed gets cluttered with posts I don't really want to read. Too bad there isn't an option to hide them, I hope this feature gets implemented. If this was possible then things would have played differently.
So, yeah, I don't follow. If I followed you and unfollowed you, please don't take it the wrong way. It's nothing personal. I'm grateful to anyone who supports me, and I'm happy to support him back, but I do believe that less is more. And if I unfollowed you, it's my fault, not yours. Friends?
Dunbar's number
Dunbar's number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships—relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person. This number was first proposed in the 1990s by British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, who found a correlation between primate brain size and average social group size. By using the average human brain size and extrapolating from the results of primates, he proposed that humans can comfortably maintain only 150 stable relationships. - Wikipedia
Robin Dunbar gives an interesting TED talk on the subject can the internet buy you more friends.
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TL; DR
I think we should have a better way to organize our Home feeds. I want to be able to filter out my dead followers and hide resteems by authors I don't want to follow.
