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Fake Follow Is Stupid

Started by Amber S · 10 måneder dage siden

Fake Follow is the social media equivalent of being at a party, running into someone you sort of know, having empty conversation with them before awkwardly being offered their phone number. You write the number down on paper because you intentionally left the phone in the car, and dump your po ... Continue reading »

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  • Shey

    10 måneder dage siden

    I hate the idea of fake following as well. So much for transparency.
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  • Amber S

    10 måneder dage siden

    I'm mostly annoyed by the fact that you have to do something to fake follow. You don't have time to do something, so you take extra time to not do it.
    I get why its done, its just ridiculously self serving and arrogant.
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  • Rahsheen

    10 måneder dage siden

    Fake following just goes against the whole point of Social Media. If you don't want to be social, don't try to fake it. This is the internet, you have the option to not bother.
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  • Tsali

    10 måneder dage siden

    I fake follow this site daily. Oh, wait, that means I have to daily come here to not follow it. That's like a judge telling a convict he'll sentence him to 6 years if he tells a lie, 4 years if he tells the truth, so the convict tells the judge that he will be sentenced to 6 years. If he is telling the truth, then the judge has to sentence him to 4 years, thusly making the statement false, which would sentence the convict to 6 years, but again that'd make the statement true. The judge finally just said "Screw this, you're executed at high noon"

    Some people say the judge let him go free because of that, but I like my version better.

    So I totally just didn't follow anything about this post.
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  • Amber S

    10 måneder dage siden

    James its a feature on Friendfeed Beta where you subscribe to someones feed, but then change a setting where it never shows up on the service. It shows up like they are a mutual friend who reads your content when they are mostly committing a selfish act to look good even though they are not reading it. ---Like people who buy a bunch of books they don't read because it looks good. I keep forgetting you still haven't signed up for FF man.
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  • Tsali

    10 måneder dage siden

    Oh I know, just posting a comment about how ridiculous the concept is by giving you a completely useless comment and story that is not related to the original post at all lol.
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