When I joined Twitter 2.5 years ago as @sunky I loved one thing about it, I had the power to just follow who I wanted. It was not a “friendship” set up, where you must add somebody for them to add you … but there got a point where I felt guilty for not following some people. Out of habit? Length of time? or because I have met them in real life.
I began to find that I was simply adding people that added me, take them for a test run and then decide to continue or not. I notice a lot of users having near on equal amounts to how many people follow them to how many they follow. I began to realise this wasn’t for me.
Looking at this it is an interesting statement on people using Twitter, it can be customised to be what YOU want YOUR Twitter to be. Over the weekend I caught up with some a few close friends I’ve known online for many years. One of them being the person that introduced me to Twitter. So it got me thinking, I started to use this just to follow the people I knew in real life or long time friends from different haunts from around the world, why have my twitter habits suddenly changed? Why did I feel the need to follow everybody that followed me?
I made the decision at that point, to drop some new and long term Twitter followers, it was a very hard decision to come to. These are people I added years ago and was just keeping as ‘followers’, sure I enjoyed reading the tweets but I would often be more interested in the updates from my well known close friends in my life.
Im really sorry, if you’re reading this, and you are one of those people I unfollowed. It’s not you, it’s me. This is a change for me, I’ve enjoyed your tweets, but now it’s time to move on for me. Find new people to follow, people outside of my hometown … I’ve begun to see life as something all about new experiences. This is a small step in not ‘holding’ onto things just for the sake of it.
Catch you on the twitters … maybe. 
