I’ll admit, I’ve accepted the Facebook friend requests of some crazies. But you don’t want to unfriend them, then they might get really crazy! There’s a strategy for that: Facebook makes unfollowing easier.
They have a new News Feed tool showing you whose taking up most of your news page. This new tool will let you unfollow them without unfriending them. There’s also a tool for hiding posts from your feed and you can tell Facebook whether to unfollow or see less of a certain author, friend, page or app. For years, Facebook has been making suggestions on who we should friend or follow. This can be annoying at times. But if you ask most Facebook users, this annoyances pales in comparison to feeds and pages full of repetitious, boring and just plain irritating posts.
So for many, this should make Facebook life easier. I’ll have to read less about drama between two exes. I’ll be reading less posts with F bombs and looking at far less pictures of deformed people or near naked people. On the other hand, this new tool makes me more conscious about what I post. While being unfollowed hurts a lot less than being unfriended, it’s still a blow to the ego. Will you be using this new tool on your feed?