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Comment by wafflesraccoon | Hacker News Reader

Twitter is hands down my favorite social media platform, I really enjoy how I can curate a stream of content that is almost always relevant to my interests. It is also a great way to share my own content and interact with the people that are interested in it. There is also the unspoken benefit that unfollowing someone does not have the same social impact as unfriending someone on Facebook.

(Active Twitter user for 10 years, 90k Tweets and a few thousand followers)

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You can unfollow people on Facebook without unfriending them. Works wonders for people who you have a relationship with, but don't necessarily need to see their stream of posts.

I have not touched Facebook in years, I'm glad they have added that feature. I might have to check it out again, thanks.

There's also a new 'snooze' feature, where you can 'snooze' a person for 30 days.

Interesting that managing friendships and relationships with these tools feels an awful lot like....work does. Everything compartmentalized, specific functions to deal with people down stream..

>I can curate a stream of content that is almost always relevant to my interests

How much work did that take you?

I've tried to do what you describe.... but time and again I grow tired scrolling through hordes of "I really followed this person or thing to hear about this content but now they're tweeting about X" and found I constantly had to manage it. It was to the point that I just would rather keep bookmarks as websites are better at staying focused than most twitter accounts.

> How much work did that take you?

In a way, the management of my feed is a never ending game. Typically the problem I see is that people are too reluctant to unfollow/ follow other accounts.

How do you do it? Lets say I follow someone that talks about games, and I love their insights posts on that. But 50% of their posts are political which I have no interest in. Are posts tagged in a way that I can avoid that topic.

Not a twitter user currently. Tried it a few years ago and that was the problem I had.

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