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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's a mark of me not "getting" social media, but I have never understood why people got so worked up about Blake and other cast members (and I guess Hoover and perhaps some others) unfollowing Justin on Instagram. They didn't like him. I also don't follow people I dislike on Instagram. If I was a public person and someone asked me "why did you unfollow so-and-so on Instagram" I'd say "none of your business, that is not something you should care about" because... it's not.

It just seems like a weird amount of drama over something that I think really, really does not matter. It's just the shallowest possible thing. [/quote]

Personally, I agree, but I begrudgingly admit it seems to be a very big deal to some people (such as when Kelce unfollowed Reynolds) and celebs apparently do use it to signal. If it were up to me I would never be aware of who follows whom because I don't follow any of these people and I certainly don't comb through their friends list to notice when they followed or unfollowed someone. But it's a thing, so I guess if I were Hoover or whoever and I just didn't like someone, I would mute them and follow them to keep the peace because unfollowing would create drama. Therefore I infer that if they unfollow, they mean that as a message to the public.

It's so, so dumb. And it really does come off ridiculous to be like "oh, we had to have this plan to destroy this person - which we can't write down - because they might UNFOLLOW me."

Maybe one day California will introduce a defamation claim for "false light unfollowing."[/quote]

PP and yes. I think I get stuck on this because years and years ago when IG was young, I had an acquaintance who posted really annoying crap on there and chose to unfollow her. This was before you could mute people, and I wanted to be able to scroll IG without seeing her annoying posts. But people, including her, made a big deal out of it and I was like "...? it's just instagram who cares?" Like I didn't get it then and I don't get it now. I've been unfollowed too. Oh well. Sometimes people don't like other people. Sometimes people don't get along. Or, in my case, I just didn't want to see these really inane posts.

I just think people are giving this app way too much power. It doesn't matter. People look at IG while sitting on the toilet and standing in line at the grocery store, folks. It is truly not important.[/quote]

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