The power of the "Follow" button is more dangerous than you think. In today's society it dictates if we're really friends.
You ever been minding your business and get one of these mentions "You gon follow back or nah (side eye emoji)" and it leaves you looking at your phone like....
It happens everyday in the mean streets of Twitter my nigga.
Or how about this. You ever have someone follow you, unfollow you, then follow you again? Have you thinking "My nigga I seen it the first time, I just aint following back"
I've unfollowed some of my close friends via twitter and Instagram. Not because we're not friends anymore, simply because I don't care for the nonsense you post.
These social media outlets are great tools for networking, marketing, and entertainment. I personally choose the people I follow for different reasons. Some people are creative with the 140 characters they're giving and makes twitter entertaining, others I follow to network with and possibly do business with in the future.
So when one of your high school classmates who you haven't seen or heard from since after prom choose to follow you they automatically think you have to follow back. NO MY NIGGA I DONT. When you don't follow back they think "you're fake" "you've changed" or simply "you're no longer friends with them" Not the case at all. Why can't it be because you're not entertaining enough or you haven't earned a follow back.
You can be on twitter roughly 2 hours a day, 7 days a week. Now that's 14 hours a week, and within those 14 hours you see the same person getting RT'd onto your timeline and you think he/she is entertaining. You might follow that person. Now is that person required to follow you back, no because you haven't earned that follow back.
Earn your followers
If you're the funny person on twitter/IG be the funniest person you can be to entertain your followers. If you're the positive message person, be the most positive motivational person you can be. You can't assume just because I've seen you around the way and we spoke that I'm obligated to follow back.
Stop taking this "Follow me back" shit personal. You can be the best person in the world and go to church every Sunday. Your post are about church and you always post the word. If I'm on twitter/Instagram for ratchet entertainment purposes I'm not going to follow you back because I'm not here for that.
Stop letting that "follow" button dictate if we're friends or not. It's never that real my nigga.
But keep it real my niggas if a cute girl start following you, you follow back fast as fuck. Won't let that opportunity slip thru your hands, NOPE!
Written by Rell Mac (@Rell_Mac)
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