The Right to Unfollow

Good morning y'all!

It's sunday, it's raining. I was awake from my ever so sound sleep at 2 freakin' AM this morning. It wasn't regular because I basically sleep like a baby and was home at the most appropriate time to sleep. And as I was lying there waiting for my eyes to shut.... I scrolled down my Instagram. I was scrolling around and just remembered that it is time to do some cleaning on my feed so I decided to unfollow them whose posts is not relatable for me anymore. So I started to tick the green out of my following list until.......... some of them getting upset and came straight up to me. At that freakin' hour.

Some of them tried to spam-like my page and did the 'unfollow-follow' on me so I get the notification. But the best was someone actually messaged me to declare that he's going to unfollow me as I unfollowed them first. Judging from the message, he was somwhat furious. I was bursting. In laugh. 

But before I get down to this, I want to set a note that I'm not particulary saying this towards one spesific person. I mean, since WHEN did this thing become so important as if we don't click the damn button then one opportunity to continue life is vanished. In some cases, people who decided to click unfollow tend to automatically end their actual relationship. Society somehow made that as a symbol of modern relationship as when you don't follow me back, you are considered rude and I don't think we can be friends anymore then. What is that?

My take on this is: there must be reasons why it called "Follow" instead of "Add as friend" and I do think one of them is this platform is focusing more on the content. So you don't actually 'following' a person but more to something that is IN there, something that the person agreed to share. You are expected to get inspired by following contents that's relatable for you and it's all your choice. Furthermore, the essence of why social media exist is that I think everybody is liberated to express themselves in every platform available, including liberty to speak, to choose what to see, what to hear, the right to follow as well as the right to unfollow.

Please be alarmed that the world is not over when you get unfollowed. It doesn't prove anything. Its not that you are boring or people hate you personally, its just what's inside your account is not always suitable for everybody. People might like what you share and people might not NEED to see that and its OK. Maybe my contents is not very pleasing to some people and I don't expect them to like mine and not trying to make them. I know some people that don't follow my Instagram but in real life we still hang out because its just a freakin follow button. So I hope that this click out issue will not going to get bigger and bigger because there are LOTS of things out there that is more important than this.

And suddenly its 8h15 now. I'm going back to bed! Bye :*

G