Do you randomly click on Flutheronians you are following or those who follow you?

Every now and then I will realise I haven’t seen someone for ages. Not especially people who follow me or that I follow, but people I become aware are very quiet. I will check if they’re still here. Sometimes I have no idea someone has gone until someone else mentions it. It always makes me a bit sad to see Neptune. If they are still here but haven’t posted or logged in, I might send them a message in the hope it will reach them. Just to check they are okay.

The truth is that following or being followed almost never crosses my thoughts. This tendency is heavily enforced now that my visits here are pretty much exclusively through the phone. I think the following feature is one of those things that piques your interest when you discover fluther, but rapidly fades to background static as one becomes acclimated. I think this outcome more or less inevitable for most of us. After all, most of us have little use for fan clubs.

I do precious little “randomly”, and nothing like that on Fluther.

^^ I think the following feature is one of those things that piques your interest when you discover fluther, but rapidly fades to background static as one becomes acclimated.
Would not that fall true for Facebook Friends? To have three hundred plus Facebook Friends, really? You cannot be friends with more than a dozen people truly, so adding people to your Facebook would be as useless as followers on Fluther.

Until I read this question I didn’t realize I could see who was following me. Always new features to discover eh.

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Facebook friends are (I think) fairly different from people you communicate with here. At least ⅔rds of my FB friends’ list is friends and acquaintances from the Egyptian / tribal fusion / Roma dance and music communities. Many are people I dance with/have danced with/have studied with/have been in competitions or classes/workshops with. It’s a big world of connections and learning experiences.

Fluther seems to be a more random collection of people.

I haven’t used the following function at all in years, that I remember.

Yes I do. There are so many missing in action and departed. I shall never remove the ones that are still here on my profile, but not here in this world. I sometimes look to see if current people have updated their details, but I do it randomly.