“Twitter is not Facebook. We are not friends because we both pushed a button confirming so — we just are interested in what other people say. Think of Twitter more like RSS feed subscriptions and less like a network of friends and you won’t get so worked up over all this follower non-sense.”
—Following and not following people on Twitter can’t be about feelings. We all have limited time and attention and therein lies the beauty of the asymmetrical friend relationship.
Check out this great piece by @BenjaminBrooks on the subject.
(via arainert)
So true
