The post I've been postponing...

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Yes, you are probably reading this because you got a notification saying I unfollowed you.

Please understand it's nothing personal. I just did it because of my own sanity.

The why:

You see, I believe the brain is a biological computer that is programmed via our senses.

Let me explain.

What we see, what we read, what we listen and hear, what we taste and smell, are analog signals that are transformed into electrical impulsess which end up decoded by our brain.

In nowadays hyper-connected and information-saturated world, we need to be very careful what information we put into our brains, specially via the "windows to the souls", also known as the eyes.

Everywhere I interact and gather information from, I choose to filter news outlets or individuals who put out a constant amount of information I simply do not resonate with.

Content I consider harmful (i.e: excessive violence), useless (i.e: photos of food or biased opinions), overly positive or negative (i.e: people constantly complaining about how hard life is, or on the other hand how everything is so positive around them), is information that has absolutely no value to me, at least not right now.

Here on my beloved Steem blockchain I have made the choice in the past to follow almost all of those users who have somehow contributed to my journey by giving upvotes, resteeming and mentioning me in their posts.

Some of them I've even became friends with. Yes I consider them friends, and I think they are my friends even if now I have decided stop following their posts.

With that being said, a few of the people I used to follow have declined in the quality of the content they are producing, or maybe it's just me and I don't find said content interesting/useful anymore.

TL;DR

If I unfollowed you, don't beat yourself up, there's nothing wrong about you. I am just selecting what I want to see in a better way.

And I think you should do the same, if you have nothing to take out of my posts.

Cheers
@greencross

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i change my feed around quite a bit. Not really interested how they feel about it. More like serves them right for checking lol

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haha makes sense as well, at least they come back and see what we have posted lately 😂

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I unfollow inactive people usually. Sometimes I like to switch my feed up also. I have been adding more people recently and seeing some new faces, it's fun.

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Yes that would be a great thing to have here: the ability to classify the users we follow into custom categories!.

And thanks very much for the follow, I followed back.

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Probably need to do some trimming in my list as well. Been putting it off though. I’ll be going dark here soon because of work reasons and mostly just looking to find a good place to delegate my small amount of Steem to in the meantime. Any good projects you think could use it?

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Hey brother, I hope you don't go dark on IG, at least there I always see what you are up to :)

The I recommend delegating and following the vote trail of to @canna-curate, @ddaily and @onelovedtube. Those are the three projects/communities I believe the most in :)

Cheers

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Thanks for the heads up about those projects. I’ll look into them. Unfortunately it’s more of a general going dark off the internet thing and not exclusive to Steem. I think we’ve all got issues with Steem at times, but that’s not the driving factor. More like a couple of months where I’m not going to have internet which gives me a long period to delegate Steem to someone and I want it to be someone who could use it.

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You are 100% correct about the content quality going down lately. There has been an influx of spam and shitposts lately in my opinion and I stopped voting on a lot of people purely because of this. Also I havent been reading those people's posts because they are just milking the rewards system too.

There needs to be some higher standards on posts because it just gets ridiculous when people are earning all of these auto-votes on these two sentence posts with one or two pictures.

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Yes it is sad to see creators who used ro put a lot of effort before just slacking their posts because they know they are on the big wallet's autovoting list.

In fact, that's the main reason I am going into this unfollow rampage. Also I'm not reading their posts either when they dare to make a decent one, because of the same reason you exposed.

It's a pity because they lack accountability.

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You know the universe has a funny way of working things out. Eventually the shit posts will begin to smell so bad that even the auto-voters won't be able to ignore the stench!

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