Why do some people start Following indiscriminately and then Unfollow without any reason?
The moment we write something, we want readers. We love to have "great writing!" comments. 'Friends' could be our potential readers. How to catch friends? "I scratch your back and you scratch mine" is the established culture for getting familiar with others and getting friends in such websites. So we go and follow indiscriminately many with the hope that they may start following us and hopefully read some of our writings and put "Excellent" as a comment!
But they too are like us. Aren't most of us are mostly least interested in reading others, but want others to read ours and sing praises! Mostly it doesn't happen. Ditto for them. So they get disillusioned and start un-following you!
Thanks C.V.Rajan, for answering!
Yes the response must be reciprocal, I agree.
I always make it a point to read other' s hub and leave comments too, whether I am following them or not and whether they are my followers or not.
Thanks for responding.
It could be they believe the person will follow them and they unfollow when that doesn't happen or they may unfollow if they disagree with the other person's views, hubs, etc. Another reason could be a bit of a spring cleaning, coming to the realization that they can't follow hundreds or thousands of people and give them all equal attention and possibly realizing that some of those who followed them may be in the same boat.
Thanks Express10, for answering!
I agree people should Follow as many hubbers, as they can manage. The interests, views should match. Reading other' s work and leaving comments is equally important. It is disappointing if hubbers don't reciprocrate.
by healthmunsta 4 years ago
I am literally sick and tired of people who follow you, and then, when you follow them back, they promptly unfollow you. Really, people? What do you do when someone unfollows you shortly after you follow them? Do you hunt them down and unfollow them as well? Do you send them mail saying what they...
by TessSchlesinger 7 years ago
I think he is a spammer/scammer. He posted the same message on a couple of other topics that had nothing to do with the subject. I would delete and report.
by sheilamyers 11 years ago
It seems that some people stop reading comments left at a hub after the hub author has responded to whatever comment they've left. This is only a guess because I've read some people's comments (other than the author's responses) and they've brought up something in addition to what was said in the...
by Howard S. 13 years ago
From the Activity page there is a list of Hubs You Follow. If one of them has been deleted or unpublished, it cannot be unfollowed.
by Rosemary Amrhein 12 years ago
I have so many people I follow and the problem is, I never read anyone's hubs, hardly ever, becasue it's so overwhelming.Would they noticewould it be ok to stop following people?Just wondering.I'm really bad at reading stuff and I want to highlight the ones I esp want to read thanks!
by Blake Atkinson 14 years ago
Some of the people I follow will follow 8-10 new people everyday. This fills up my feed and distracts me from what I really want to see there: new hubs published by authors I like. Can hubpages be like facebook and group them together by saying "User x is now following 5 new...
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